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| website = [http://www.clickteam.com/eng/downloadcenter.php?i=58 AMOS and STOS]

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'''AMOS BASIC''' is a dialect of the [[BASIC programming language|BASIC]] [[programming language]] implemented on the [[Amiga]] computer. AMOS BASIC was published by [[Europress Software]] and originally written by [[François Lionet]] with [[Constantin Sotiropoulos]].

== History ==

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AMOS competed on the Amiga platform with Acid Software's [[Blitz BASIC]]. Both BASICs differed from other dialects on different platforms, in that they allowed the easy creation of fairly demanding multimedia software, with full structured code and many high-level functions to load images, animations, sounds and display them in various ways.

The original AMOS version was [[interpreter (computer softwarecomputing)|interpreted]] which, whilst working fine, suffered from performance problems. Later, an AMOS [[compiler]] was developed, that reduced this problem.

After the original version of AMOS, Europress released two other versions: '''Easy AMOS''', a simpler version for beginners, and '''AMOS Professional''', a more advanced version with added features, such as a better [[Integrated Developmentdevelopment Environmentenvironment|IDE]], [[ARexx]] support, a new [[user interface|UI]] sublanguage and new flow control constructs. Neither of these new versions was significantly more popular than the original AMOS.

AMOS was mostly used to make [[video game]]s (platformers and graphical adventures) and educational software.

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Perhaps AMOS BASIC's biggest disadvantage was its incompatibility with the Amiga's [[AmigaOS|operating system]] functions and interfaces. Instead, AMOS BASIC controlled the computer directly, which caused programs written in it to have a non-standard user interface, and also caused compatibility problems with newer versions of the operating system.

Today the language has declined in popularity along with the Amiga computer for which it was written. Despite this, a small community of enthusiasts are still using it. The [[source code]] to AMOS has since been released under a [[BSD licenselicenses|BSD style license]] by [[Clickteam]] - a company that includes the original programmer.

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==See also==

*[http://alvyn.sourceforge.net/ Alvyn Basic] — An attempt to recreate an [[open source]] [[multiplatform]] [[BASIC (programming language)|BASIC]] [[interpreter (computing)|interpreter]], syntax-compatible with AMOS Professional. Project seems to have gone inactive during 2004.

*[http://sdlbasic.sourceforge.net/ sdlBasic] — a multiplatform Basic interpreter, multiplaform and open-source, using SDL libraries, very inspired from AMOS.