Six months ago, I was visiting a friend who had just come back from
the USA and had purchased some Amiga software while he was there.
One of the programs he showed me was a language called "AMOS".
It was love at first sight. I spent the next two weeks at his house
programming in that new language. The idea that it was as easy as
BASIC and included most of the run time libraries simply made it
a very attractive new toy for a C programmer such as myself.
The one who didn't like the idea was my friend who couldn't work on
his Amiga because of me, which resulted in me being thrown physically
out of the house.  While I was rolling down the stairs, I could
still hear him shout: "If you wanna program in AMOS, get it for
yourself!"

So, that's exactly what I did.

  One of the main drawbacks of being an AMOS fanatic in Israel is that
you can't find people to talk and exchange ideas with.  We don't have
many Amiga users around, not to talk about AMOS users, and the closest
place I could lay my hands on some code was about 4 hours flight away,
20 days by snail mail, at the AMOS PD library in the United Kingdom.
That's how the Amoner PD project came to life.  Why not create a
good PD magazine over the BitNet/InterNet???  Surely I could find
myself some AMOS users between those huge amounts of universities and
colleges that are connected to bitnet. It was true.  I found the
first AMOS user two days after that. A Systems Engineer named Mike
in the United States. Then Paul, from Australia. Those were my first
two AMOS pen-pals. They are also the main distributors for this disk.

  I hope that the Amoner project will last and that can only happen if
you, the AMOS user, will help us with code and articles.  Read about
Amoner Policy to learn what you can do to help.  We wanna see you here,
whoever you are.

  Finally, I hope you'll enjoy this disk as much as I enjoyed editing
it, and help us make it grow and expand.

                                            G. Broner
                                            Editor.

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