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      Amos Pro Compiler   14.99+75p p+p   3 Disks +50 page manual
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The  Amos  Pro  Compiler  is  a special release for F1.  As I am personally
heavily  involved  in  the  Amos scene I felt the need to 'do my bit' as it
were  to  try  and  help  keep  Amos  alive (and make a few bob of course!)
Anyway,  from my dealings with Amos friends, contacts, and customers it was
very clear that a lot of people wanted the Pro Compiler but couldn't buy it
for love or money, the same is now true of the full Amos Pro package.

So  we  have  the  rights to sell our version of the compiler.  The package
consists  of  the exact same three floppy disks as in the V2 release of the
compiler,  the manual is very similar to the original, though not so glossy
and  there  is  no  pretty box.  Disk 1 contains the Compiler itself and an
installer.  Strangley, the installer is in Amos source form and you have to
load  it  into  your Amos editor and run it.  This installs the compiler in
your  Amos  Pro  drawer  and  allows you to access the Compiler from within
AmosPro  itself,  very  handy.  You don't have to do that of course you can
just  run  disk  1  on  its  own and compile any Amos source written in any

version  of Amos.  Disk 2 contains some extras such as example programs and
some  useful  odds  and  sods.   Disk  3  has  got a few people excited, it
upgrades  Amos  Pro  to the latest version (V2.0) To be able to install the
compiler  for  use WITHIN AmosPro you have to be using AmosPro V2, the last
ever update to Pro (sob!)
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IMPORTANT: IF YOU OWN THE AMIGA FORMAT COVER DISK VERSION OF AMOS PRO THE
           UPDATER WILL NOT UPGRADE IT!
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Come  on,  you  can't  expect free updates to a commercial program that you
were  given  for  free, can you?  The Compilers front end is very simple to
use  and is explained fully in the manual, you don't really need the manual
to be honest.

Some  of  the  benefits  of  installing  the Compiler are some new Amos Pro
commands,  such  as PowerPacker support and others.  The pro Compiler takes
your  Amos  source  code  and  compiles  it  into an executable stand-alone
program that is usually a lot faster than the source code, dependent on the
type  of  program.   The  executable  turns out quite a bit bigger than the
original  source  code obviously (depending if you include the Amos.Library
inside the executable or not) Executables are best crunched with the latest
version of PowerPacker  (commercial project) or CrunchMania (PD/Shareware).




Amos and and the compiler have always had bugs and there is nothing we can
do about the Compiler I am afraid, a few of the well know bugs are:
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@7Don't compile a program with an Icon bank inside it,load in the Icon bank
from inside your program when it is run otherwise it will crash.
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@6Don't use the 'Squash' function in the Compiler, it won't run on some
Amiga's.
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Err, I have forgotten the others.

Still, 14.99 for a product that would otherwise be unobtainable and
originally cost 35 can't be bad.




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