Hi All,
AMOS for me brings back a ton of great memories, it's where I started to actually produce stuff that got released to the unsuspecting public.
I had amos over a year before it was publically released as I was a beta tester, so I suppose I had a bit of a head start in learning how to use it.
I was part of a programming team "Technical Fred Software", we released a few things via general PD as well as the Amos PD Library and the Licenseware scheme (which fell flat on it's arse like a lot of good ideas at the time :-( )
Someone once told me that it was impossible for AMOS to play Sonix music, so I wrote Music Engine, which used a doscall to run a CLI program to play the sonix music. OK, I cheated, but it worked, no one else was doing it at the time :-)
I think I had contributions in just about every Totally Amos disk mag. (I'd love to get my hands on some of my old source code from those mags just to see how crap my old programming used to be :-)
Being an Amos programmer at the time kept me in touch with lots of great people, sadly now I have lost touch with them all, I would say my best friends at the time were Len Tucker, Aaron Fothergill and Sandra Sharkey, between us we added so much profit to British Telecom that it's suprising any of us got any work done at all. (This was in the time before unlimited phone call packages, so it cost us a small fortune :-) )
I am still active in the Amiga community, I'm probably best known now for my videos, but I'm starting to code again, I've been waiting for an Amos like language for OS4, for now I am working with Hollywood, which uses a BASIC like language.
Hopefully I'll have some more stuff to release soon.
There's so much more that I have been involved with, but I'll not bore you with that now :-)
