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From: clcp16@vaxa.strath.ac.uk ((Stewart C. Russell))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: A.M.O.S.
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.161159.10235@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Feb 91 16:11:58 GMT
References: <1991Feb18.141013.9228@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster
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In article <1991Feb18.141013.9228@cl.cam.ac.uk>, phg@cl.cam.ac.uk (Philip Gladwin) writes:
> 
> Has anyone any experience of this thing? Is it a toy, or 
> can you really prototype professional applications in it?
> I have two things I want to develop, and I am looking around 
> for the suitable tools. One is a kind of complex Hypermedia 
> project, incorporating some limited IKBS techniques and 
> having a massive database of road maps; the other is more 
> of a traditional Dungeon/Maze type game. 

AMOS disables most multitasking, and runs outwith Intuition.

> 
> (I suppose I want to know if it would be possible to 
> _prototype_, say, a version of Autoroute that had a hypertext 
> facility,  and Dungeonmaster,  in AMOS.)
> 
> So...
> Am I right in thinking that it is a massive Basic Toolchest? ie 
> is it all Basic syntax? How good _is_ Basic these days anyway?

GFA BASIC v3.51 is superb, even before compilation. Wouldn't recommend
AMOS for anything other than demo-ish messing about.

> 
> How fast is it? Can you get proper sprite animation and movement, 
> or are you always painfully aware of the machine thinking?
> 

Sprites are quick.

> I assume it has an Arexx port?

Well, if it doesn't multitask...
  
> Has it its own database facility? If not, are there Netland 
> recommended products?
                  
> Thanks,
> 
> Philip Gladwin
> phg@uk.ac.cam.cl
> phg@cl.cam.ac.uk

	Stewart C. Russell
	University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland