AMOS is a descendant of STOS Basic for the Atari ST. First released in 1990 as the Mandarin Software Amos games creation package.
Mandarin Software, the original publishers of AMOS and STOS, changed their name to Europress Software in 1991.
The German version of AMOS was finally released in May 1992.
Versions released
- v1.0 - First version developed in 1990
- v1.1 - This is the first official release in June 1990
- v1.21 - This update was released in September 1990 after customer feedback
- Updates for AMOS put into the Public DOmain for the first time at the same time as the release of v1.21
- v1.3 - Released in June 1991 alongside the new AMOS Compiler
License
The
source code to AMOS has now been released under a BSD style license by
Clickteam (the company owned by the original developer of AMOS).
External Resources
- The AMOS Factory - An AMOS support/community site
- Amiga coding Wiki - Amiga coding resource and knowledgebase with a lot of AMOS content.
- Mattathias BASIC - An Open Source AMOS compiler