Monday, 6pm, and it's raining hard outside.  The farmers
must be happy right now because the rain is good for the fields.
Rain, however, is bad for outdoors basketball, which means
it's good for the Amoner magazine because I sit and work
on it instead of playing outdoors basketball with my friend.
I wonder if farmers think of outdoor basketball at a time
like this.  Oh well, whatever . . . 

   Now that I've drained that rainy subject, I guess
we better talk about the disk which rests inside your disk
drive right now: The Amoner Disk.  What do we have on it
this time?  Well, first we have quite an impressive graph
producing program called "AGraph."  This good-looking entry
is by Dave Smith from the United Kingdom.  The program is
shareware and only the compiled code is available on the
disk.  Source will be received by those who register
(see the Agraph docs).  As we've started talking about
shareware, some of you probably wonder what is it all about.
good!  The Article "Shareware - The Solution" comes to clarify
the idea behind shareware with some minor reference in its usage
with AMOS. Paul Holt & Stefo (who is wanted so we can't give
out his real name) burst out with another interesting entry -
Gunner. This program is under 10k, but its graphic & music banks
almost run my poor computer out of memory. . . Notice the
impresive looking introduction. As for the game itself, give it a whirl!
   Now, where were we. . .Oh yeah!  We have a new section on our disk.
It is called "Tiny Hacks."  Here, we are expecting programs of any
kind that answer one rule: they have to be under 10k, including
memory banks.  This disk contains two "Tiny Hacks."  The first is
by our Assistant Editor, Michael Cox, that calculates bank loans.
The other is "Explode," a small strategy game (by me) that can
provide you with hours of fun (I hope).  Since small programs are
easier to follow, we feel they could provide you with good study
material.  Writers of "Hacks" are asked to provide us with good
documentation. Thank you.

   The next disk is already on its way and should be out by
the beginning of December. Expect the winning entry for the Knight's
Tour programming puzzle, an interesting musical equaliser display
from Dave Smith (good work Dave!), a simple word puzzle game for
the young and the old and much, much more. The new disk will
also contain a more consistent start-up program which we will use
on our future disks. New entries for the Knight's Tour problem are
still accepted, and will be till the 30 of November.


  Last, let's not forget to say that the programs on this disk are
written with "Amos - The creator" from Mandarin Software.  Yea!


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