I spent quite some time with AMOS once it came out. I think i''m the only one who wrote a full fledged 3d engine with it It supported flat-shading, gouraud and a moving lightsource. Framerate wasnt too great though. Ofcourse this was done without using the crappy amos3d addon.

AMOS was a nice tool to use while you did more "serious" stuff in C or ASM. I used AMOS for experimentation, since it was much faster to alter the source and run it, than spending years to recompile a C source. Before the days of 060 mind you

I think the sources are still available on aminet. (by defect/insane)

I used AMOS for a couple of years before Blitz Basic was released. Very fond memories.

Steve ''Sly'' Williams  Monkey Wrangler  Krome Studios
turbo game development with Borland compilers

- I remember - I was coding demos in 68000 at the time it came out.

I actually used to work at Europress a fair few years back when they went through their game publisher phase.

Click & Create (the more completely featured version of Klik & Play, also by Francois) was actually used internally on some of the other Europress producrs.

One of the internal Europress programmers was working on an AMOS like system for the PC in his spare time... his name? - Lee Bamber, the product - DarkBASIC. One of the senior producers from Europress, Rick Vanner later joined up with him.

I was mainly subcontracted to Lego at the time (Lee Bamber was working on a different internal product for Lego then too) - the project manager for the Lego projects, Ted Bailey (now manager at Creative Asylum) started his career at Acid software working on the libraries etc for Blitz BASIC!

Its a small, small world!

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Simon O''Connor
Creative Asylum Ltd
www.creative-asylum.com