Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!enea!tope From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AMOS Message-ID: <2110@enea.se> Date: 17 Sep 90 10:36:55 GMT References: <4334@monu1.cc.monash.oz> Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden Lines: 60 In article <4334@monu1.cc.monash.oz> ins624y@monu3.cc.monash.edu.au (mr r. walker) writes: - -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? Yes. Yes. (It's even available in Sweden, which sometimes seems much more isolated from Europe and US than ever Australia :-) -b) Is it compiled or interpreted (ie. is it possible to run programs - independently of the AMOS package)? It's interpreted, but the recently-released run-time PD AMOS (RAMOS) makes the latter possible. The say they will sell a compiler as well (when it's finished). -c) Speedwise, how does it compare to C, especially for graphics (it *is* - meant for games after all)? It's fast for interpreted BASIC... Without doubt usable for anything but really complex graphics operations. Of course You can always make things faster in a pure assembly language program. -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 ... - It works on an expanded A2500/20. -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). Tommy Petersson