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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 (computing)|interpreted]] which, whilst working fine, suffered from performance problems. Later, an AMOS [[compiler]] was developed
To speed up the animation of sprites, AMOS included the AMOS Animation Language (AMAL), a compiled sprite scripting language which runs independently of the main AMOS BASIC program.<ref>http://grove.ufl.edu/~cwarner/computers.html</ref> It was also possible to control screen and "rainbow" effects using AMAL scripts.
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