After putting an hour or so each night into my game/editor for the last two weeks I finally took the time to do some housekeeping and attempt to compile and try APEO out. A couple years back I made a script to call APCMP from the Workbench menu that copies all the Amos system files to RAM: and then pops up a requester to select the source. I got tired of browsing the directories each time a couple nights ago I moved it into DOpus4 to be called by a button on the currently selected file. I then did the same thing for APEO. Having the buttons to rapidly recompile after making changes in the Amos editor has been great as I have been able to identify some optimizations by moving chunks of code to more sensible spots. I also spent a couple evenings going through your guide trying to rework a few of my loops and carefully considering if/endifs and how they are structured.

I hit only one error during the first attempt to compile that I didn't expect. For some reason I had used Mouse Click as Mouse Click() which the interpreter for Amos didn't mind at all but this broke the compile. After that I was able to compile and then test APEO. APEO makes about 307 changes across the compiled code which starts out around 2500 lines long currently. Is it making a big difference? Not sure but I will take all the performance I can get and it hasn't caused any problems. The game is an adventure-platformer with levels constructed of "rooms" of various sizes up to 63 wide and related height for a maximum of 768 tiles per room. There can be 16 rooms per "level" but the levels can be linked together too. The level editor is being built into it. It is not currently heavy on calculations and I moved to fixed point math a while ago to speed things up. Your notes say that APEO might be more beneficial for programs doing a lot of calculations... For fun I've thought about running Scorched Tanks through it to see if it can make it perform a bit better on low spec'd Amiga's. (My brother's unexpanded A600 comes to mind.)

Anyhow, I appreciate your guide and APEO. Thought you might like to know somebody is putting them to use. (Now if somebody could take it upon themselves to hack basic syntax highlighting into the Amos Pro editor! Save my eyes from the uniform wall of text.)

I have nothing to do with Amigakits domains.

I never accused you of having anything to do with AmigaKit domains (they're all out-sourced), my gripes here are AmigaKit websites, services and certificates... like this very site here, where you are "AmigaKit support" and "Administrator", and rumours on town is that you're the only technical person around at AmigaKit. Perhaps you should implement your automation for the AmigaKit sites then? Btw, it's a little fascinating that there are so many individual certificates, one for each and every service.

However you apparently do, as you seem to have an opinion on everything and follow them closely.

Yup, however it doesn't take any of my time... I'm monitoring services anyways, adding amigakit sites didn't cost anything.

Hi there,

I had no sound on the A600GS a while back, and posted here on Amiga.org. AmigaKit replied: "On the top right hand corner of the screen is an audio mute icon.  Please press that." This solved my problem. Maybe it is this in your case as well?

Glad it works for you. BTW we are looking to have some updated emulation software evailable in not too distant future, so the 64-bit version become more usable day by day.

Great thank you.
I've now got two ASUS netbooks which are both capable of running AROS 64-bit. Thanks to one of the attendees at MAE I've got AROS installed on one and tested a live image (no install) on the other.