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- EXTENSIONS,EXTENSIONS AND MORE EXTENSIONS
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- BY ANDY DOBINSON
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- Welcome to what is now going to be a regular section in this diskmag and
- as you might have guessed this section will be covering all those lovely
- extensions, past and present with bug reports, hints and tips, news on
- forth coming extensions and reviews that work on both amos classic and
- amos pro.
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- Well for those that dont already know, Amos pro is appearing on the
- january edition (dec 15) of amiga formats cover disk, which as far as
- I`m concerned will do no end of good the the amos scene but it be might
- be gutter for all those people who just went out and bought it in the
- shops.
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- Now I dont know about you but, in the last month or so a lot of my old
- contacts who deserted the amos scene in favour of blitz (hiss,spit)
- have reappeared, which is fab but I wonder why, cause I thought blitz
- was suppoessed to be the best thing since sliced bread !.So armed with my
- trusty phone I made alot of phone calls and if I said that amos can now
- run faster than blitz you`d probaly think that I was a nutter ?. well i`m
- not and the reason being is that there are a few new extensions coming
- out very soon which are quite simply amazing.
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- POWER BOBS
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- First up is an extension from POWER SOFT/MAGICKNIGHT SOFTWARE and is
- called quite simply POWER BOBS and, it has to be said speeds up your bobs
- by quite an alarming rate and now you can put more bobs on the screen
- in one frame than blitz. I have spent alot of time converting the majority
- of source I have aquired over the years and a majority of the games ive
- tried have all started to run at a constant 50 frames a second, i`m
- very impressed with this and I class this along with the excellent turbo
- v2 as the two best extensions ever. project x in amos no problem,alien
- breed no problem, infact any arcade game is now possible. This extension
- is a MUST for all amos users.
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- Now the bad news, as of the 1st of december, power bobs is not yet ready for
- release but, being the kind people that we are, we have managed to get you
- a demo version which is somewhere on these 3 disks just so you can see the
- speed increase yourself and if you would like further information or would
- like to resevre a copy simply send a S.A.E to the following address:
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- MAGICKNIGHT SOFTWARE
- 19 NORMAN ROAD
- ILFORD
- ESSEX
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- and when POWER BOBS is ready you will be notified and of course we will also
- let you know in this section. There are still a load more of commands to be
- added some of which are rather tasty indeed. So people think amos is
- dead and buried ha,ha grab your copy of amos and the turbo extension and
- power bobs and wave it in front of their faces and blow a huge raspberry ?.
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- AGA........?
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- As you may have already read in the news section , I recently rang up
- europress to find out what was happening with an aga extension and was
- told the following "Europress software ARE NOT releasing an aga extension
- nor will there be any further updates to amos classic or amos pro.".
- Well my personal feelings towards this are, as you can imagine not very
- favourable and I think its a missed opportunity but, all is not lost.
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- An AGA extension is on its way from a third party developer and will be
- hopefully released very soon and I am hopeing to have some more news
- and/or a review for the next issue (5) so be patient, it is coming
- trust me.
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- COLOUR PROCEDURES
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- Somewhere on these 3 disks is a program called COLOURS. now for those of
- you who own the original craft this will not be of any use to you but,
- for those who don't it basicly allows you to do all maner of things with
- palettes and colours, ie palette banks, colour manipulation, colour
- speading etc and is fully documented. why did I write it ?. quite simply
- because I was bored ,so there.
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- USER INPUT
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- If you have any hints and tips, source code ,bugs or a juicy bit of
- gossip for any extension that works with amos/amospro or you are having
- some trouble with one, just write to me or pick up the phone:
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- ANDY DOBINSON
- 28 WINDERMERE AVENUE
- HULLBRIDGE
- HOCKLEY
- ESSEX
- SS5 6JR
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- OR TEL: 0374 921863 AFTER 6PM
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- E-MAIL : Soon as ive worked out how to use my modem.. its a bloody
- nightmare.
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- NEXT ISSUE
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- For issue 5 you can look forward to rather tasty selection of source code
- for the turbo extension and a review of a new intuition extension plus
- loads of gossip,news and if things work out something which is very
- special indeed, and a huge competition. Plus, I will be demostrating how
- games like alien breed, project x, alladin etc can be done in amos
- all running at a cool 50 fps. Now some of you think im joking and that
- it is impossible, well, I have to disagree and I shall prove it next issue.
- so now you have got no excuse not to go and buy the next issue of the
- worlds best amos diskmag.
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- have a wicked crimbo and new year and see you in the next issue.
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- Andy Dobinson (pinkie)
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- P.S special thanx must go to the following people for all their support
- during 1994. it was much appreciated.
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- shiney shoes, king ken, megapower, brian bell, nitram, onion, the little
- old lady (ouch!), sandy, mad mick, carol (its not mine), mel the stud
- and little piggy pat and last and most definitly least my ex boss who
- so kindly made me redundant