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Subject: Re: A.M.O.S.
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Date: 20 Feb 91 05:53:25 GMT
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In article <1991Feb18.141013.9228@cl.cam.ac.uk>, phg@cl.cam.ac.uk (Philip
Gladwin) says:

>Has anyone any experience of this thing? Is it a toy, or

AMOS is great.

>Am I right in thinking that it is a massive Basic Toolchest? ie

Yes.

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

Speed is typical of a BASIC interpreter, I guess. The actual animation is
of course done by high level commands so there isn't much to interpret.

>I assume it has an Arexx port?

No.

>Has it its own database facility? If not, are there Netland
>recommended products?

Database? Since when has a BASIC interpreter included a database? :-)

>There are reports of AMOS being unstable - are they well-founded?

I've had no problems. Not a single crash. (But I don't use it every day...)

>And what about the AMOS 3D release? What wonders does it include?
>Is it worth it? Is it compulsory?

Has it been released? (I don't know; I assume not).

>What is the size of the runtime environment? Are we talking two-disk
>applications here?

The run time thing is 80K. 80K is quite a bit less than 1760K.

-- Dan Babcock