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From: ins624y@monu3.cc.monash.edu.au (mr  r.   walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: AMOS
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Date: 16 Sep 90 04:42:07 GMT
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Here is Australia we have been tossing the bull around about AMOS for a bit.
I thought that someone out there, especially in England, where AMOS *should*
have already been released, could answer these questions:

a) Has AMOS been officially released && is it widely available?
b) Is it compiled or interpreted (ie. is it possible to run programs
   independently of the AMOS package)?
c) Speedwise, how does it compare to C, especially for graphics (it *is*
   meant for games after all)?
d) Naturally it runs on the A500 and the A2000.  How does it run on the
   A3000?  Someone here in Oz claimed that Mandarin would not release AMOS
   until it worked on the A500, 1000, 2000 && 3000.  Funny, I seem to recall
   that AMOS was announced long before the 3000 ...

and while I'm at it ...
e) Have CBM started putting the ECS (apart from the obese Agnus) into 500's
   and 2000's yet?  When will they start shipping these machines with
   2.0 instead of 1.3?  Dave Haynie may care to respond to this one (if
   I were him I would have given up responding to every post with his name
   in it long ago ... still it's great to see this sort of grass-roots
   involvement from CBM)

and finally, the thing every Amiga owner in Australia wants to know
(especially is they are students) ....
f) When is the A3000 going to be released in Australia (he said, with
  reckless optimism, not really expecting an accurate/authoritative answer,
  especially from CBM Australia, who probably don't read comp.sys.amiga,
  and certainly have never posted to it)???????  There has been some
  mumbling about Edu Disc for Australians, but no prices to far (then
  again no prices for retail A3000s either ...)  Will the 16MHz A3000
  be sold in Autralia?  Some say only the 25 MHz version ...

Thanks in Advance, Rod

"Put another COBOL programmer on the barbie ..."

ps. You can see we here in Australia live on rumours and gossip ...
    That's because the official (== CBM Australia) support/information
    is so incredibly bad (== non-existent).