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Offline saimoTopic starter

Maximizing AMOS Professional
« on: September 02, 2025, 06:22:28 PM »
I have just released a little guide that helps making the most of AMOS Professional. I hope it will turn out to be useful to somebody out there.

From the guide itself:
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This is a little guide for the Amiga developers who use AMOS Professional (for convenience, "AMOS" from now on). It provides information and tips to circumvent some issues of AMOS and to produce better code.
It was born in 2023, when, for personal use, I started documenting the quirks of AMOS that I had found and the tricks I had come up with over the years. Eventually, noticing that AMOS is used more than I had imagined, I thought that it could be useful to other developers as well, so I improved some explanations and added new ones, added some examples, reorganized the contents and converted the document from plain text to Amigaguide.
This guide is by no means a complete bible, as surely there are things that I have never stumbled upon (due to my not using certain features and to the systems I work on) and things that I have forgotten; but it will (most likely) be updated if/when I discover something new or I remember about something. Also, the examples provided do not cover all the possible cases - it is up to the reader to fill the gaps and experiment.
This guide is meant to cover only the software originally published by Europress, but chances are it mostly applies also to later/patched versions.
Feedback and error reports are welcome.

Download: https://retream.itch.io/amiga-tools
« Last Edit: September 06, 2025, 08:59:34 AM by saimo »
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Offline saimoTopic starter

Re: Maximizing AMOS Professional
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2025, 09:01:39 AM »
This is a nice guide!

Thanks!

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Are you planning on adding more?

Yes, if/when I remember about something or stumble across something new (real life permitting).
I have already updated after the release to add some more content.

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I'm also looking forward to trying APEO to see how it impacts my main project.

I'd be glad if you find it useful.
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Offline saimoTopic starter

Re: Maximizing AMOS Professional
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2025, 01:20:50 PM »
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Are you planning on adding more?

Yes, if/when I remember about something or stumble across something new (real life permitting).
I have already updated after the release to add some more content.

And now I just remembered that I had a couple of things to say about the Include directive (which actually I had already documented in the sources of the ALS demos), so I have updated the guide.
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