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Title: Docs and Faqs
Post by: krnlJnz on February 22, 2007, 12:36:34 AM
Where is the docs and faqs for Amos Pro?  I admit I have not yet decompressed it yet.
Thanks.
Title: Re: Docs and Faqs
Post by: SamuraiCrow on February 22, 2007, 04:58:41 PM
Here (http://www.softhut.com/cgi-bin/test/Web_store/web_store.cgi?page=catalog/other/books/books1_ind.html) is where you can order an Amos Professional manual.  Unfortunately, I think this is the only way to get the information you need.
Title: Re: Docs and Faqs
Post by: SamuraiCrow on August 20, 2007, 03:57:42 PM
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Somebody posted a link on Amiga.org to some old Public-Domain disks with Amos documentation on them at http://redump.emubase.de/lsd_search.php?col=title&q=amos (http://redump.emubase.de/lsd_search.php?col=title&q=amos)
Title: Re: Docs and Faqs
Post by: borat on August 21, 2007, 05:43:05 AM
Here (http://www.softhut.com/cgi-bin/test/Web_store/web_store.cgi?page=catalog/other/books/books1_ind.html) is where you can order an Amos Professional manual.  Unfortunately, I think this is the only way to get the information you need.

I contacted Software Hut a few days ago, and they told me that they are out of stock.

Does anyone know where else I can purchase a copy of AMOS Professional user's guide?

Title: Re: Docs and Faqs
Post by: borat on August 21, 2007, 05:49:18 AM
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Somebody posted a link on Amiga.org to some old Public-Domain disks with Amos documentation on them at http://redump.emubase.de/lsd_search.php?col=title&q=amos (http://redump.emubase.de/lsd_search.php?col=title&q=amos)

Those LSD docs are a transcription of AMOS The Creator user's manual.

Has anyone come across the AMOS Professional user's manual transcribed into text file format?

Title: Re: Docs and Faqs
Post by: skateblind on August 21, 2007, 11:20:45 AM
No, I have searched everywhere for it, but can only find it for sale on Amazon and similar sites
Title: Re: Docs and Faqs
Post by: Sidewinder on August 21, 2007, 01:17:08 PM
AMOS Professional came with online documentation and help system.  You can access it from within the AMOS editor under the help menu I believe or by pressing the "help" key on the (Amiga) keyboard.  If you have the AMOS Creator manual, these help docs should be able to fill in the differences.
Title: Re: Docs and Faqs
Post by: Mindie on October 04, 2007, 08:43:20 AM
Yeah. When I first bought AMOS Pro sometime WAY back, I found the help system to contain the exact same info as what was in the manual anyways, which meant I hardly ever opened the manual after I found the help system.
Title: Re: Docs and Faqs
Post by: skateblind on October 04, 2007, 02:13:07 PM
Hmmm, I thought the Pro manual had some extra functions and examples, oh well.
Title: Re: Docs and Faqs
Post by: Lonewolf10 on October 04, 2007, 10:30:01 PM

Yes. The AMOS Pro manual does have exclusive stuff which is unlikely (I haven;t checked for it myself) to be in the help system, such as:


 - AMOS Memory bank structures

 - Copperlist info (not needed if you see my threads :) )

 - Extra commands (eg. Interface commands, but I don't know if they actually work, lol)


Regards,
Lonewolf10

Title: Re: Docs and Faqs
Post by: asymetrix on August 10, 2008, 02:31:55 AM
bump

Just an update :

The Amos professional manual is being converted to html, by me.

No ETA as yet as alot of work is involved.

Title: Re: Docs and Faqs
Post by: SamuraiCrow on August 10, 2008, 07:01:02 PM
Thanks Asymetrix!  That will make a big difference!
Title: Re: Docs and Faqs
Post by: Lonewolf10 on August 15, 2008, 10:07:52 PM
bump

Just an update :

The Amos professional manual is being converted to html, by me.

No ETA as yet as alot of work is involved.

Spellcoder has already got an online manual of sorts on www.amigacoding.com , not sure if what you are doing will be better or not. Certainly the one on Amiga Coding appears to lack a command index at present.

Just letting you know, I'm not trying to put you down for your work, but I'd hate to see you waste alot of time for something that's already been done.

Regards,
Lonewolf10
Title: Re: Docs and Faqs
Post by: SamuraiCrow on August 15, 2008, 11:00:34 PM
The "manual" on AmigaCoding is just the help files from the AmosPro help system.  I think Asymmetrix is doing the actual AmosPro printed manual itself.
Title: Re: Docs and Faqs
Post by: Lonewolf10 on August 15, 2008, 11:32:49 PM

Ahhh, in that case Asymetrix keep up the work. If you do a page a day it'll only(!) take just over a year to do.  :o


Regards,
Lonewolf10

Title: Re: Docs and Faqs
Post by: asymetrix on August 27, 2008, 03:03:35 PM
thanx guys.

Yes its the full Amos Professional manual.

Progress is good, working on a few pages a day.

I should be done by end 2008 :-)

It would also be good to have alot of Amos examples uploaded, like aminet but the code viewable online.

It would be great if someone had a batch AMOS to txt converter, still looking for the AMOS-PD cd to buy.

Title: Re: Docs and Faqs
Post by: Lonewolf10 on August 29, 2008, 10:15:08 PM

There may be one out there somewhere, but I doubt it.

Converting AMOS files to text would require the knowledge of which extensions are required. Once that is done it should be a fairly easy process. However, if no tool currently exists it would probably take a couple of months work to write and debug such a tool. Alas, I have too much on my plate already :(


Regards,
Lonewolf10

Title: Re: Docs and Faqs
Post by: dzark on January 07, 2009, 02:39:03 AM
Hi guys...

Came across this thread, and have a copy of the Amos Pro manual in PDF

Keeps timing out when i try and attach, so here's a rapidshare link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/180592805/AmosPro.pdf.html

Or email me ssolter@gmail.com

Too many fond memories of Amos Pro to keep this to myself.. ;)

Cheers,
Wulf Solter
Title: Re: Docs and Faqs
Post by: Hungry Horace on January 07, 2009, 05:58:07 AM
Hi guys...

Came across this thread, and have a copy of the Amos Pro manual in PDF

Keeps timing out when i try and attach, so here's a rapidshare link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/180592805/AmosPro.pdf.html

Or email me ssolter@gmail.com

Too many fond memories of Amos Pro to keep this to myself.. ;)

Cheers,
Wulf Solter

Hi Wult,

You may not have noticed, but it was actually one of the AMOS Factory members (asymetrix) who created the PDF version of the AMOS Pro manual!

We already have the PDF version (and HTML) in our downloads section, and the HTML version is up on the front page (click the left hand side picture) for constant online viewing of it! (i find this very handy at times)

thanks