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== History ==

AMOS is a descendant of [[STOS BASIC]] for the [[Atari ST]]. AMOS BASIC was first produced in 1990.

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After the original version of AMOS, Europress released a compiler ('''AMOS Compiler'''), and two other versions of the language: '''Easy AMOS''', a simpler version for beginners, and '''AMOS Professional''', a more advanced version with added features, such as a better [[Integrated development environment|IDE]], [[ARexx]] support, a new [[user interface|UI]] API and new [[control flow|flow control constructs]]. Neither of these new versions was significantly more popular than the original AMOS.{{Citation needed|date=January 2012|reason=For example, from my experience it was way more popular. References to sales figures or alike would be nice.}}

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

The language was mildly successful within the Amiga community. Its ease of use made it especially attractive to beginners.

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Perhaps AMOS BASIC's biggest disadvantage, stemming from its Atari ST lineage, 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 hardware.

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 was released around 2001 under a [[BSD licenses|BSD style license]] by [[Clickteam]] -, a company that includes the original programmer.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071130053321/http://clickteam.com/eng/downloadcenter.php?i=58 Amos & Stos » Main Download] on clickteam.com (archived 2007)</ref>

On the 4th of4 April, 2019, [[François Lionet]] announced the release of AMOS2 on his website [https://www.amos2.org/ amos2.org]. AMOS2 replaces STOS and AMOS together, using [[JavaScript]] as its code interpreter, making the new development system independent and generally deployed in internet browsers.

Amos 2 is now called AOZ Studio. Its website is at https://www.aoz.studio/.

On the 4th of April, 2019 [[François Lionet]] announced the release of AMOS2 on his website [https://www.amos2.org/ amos2.org]. AMOS2 replaces STOS and AMOS together, using [[JavaScript]] as its code interpreter, making the new development system independent and generally deployed in internet browsers.

Amos 2 is now called AOZ Studio https://www.aoz.studio

== Software ==