TITLE: AMOS Intuition Extension (by Andy Church)
AVAILABLE FROM: F1 Licenceware (TEL: 01392 493580)
         DISKS: 1
         PRICE: £3.99
   REVIEWED BY: Dave Kirk


Many people, including myself have, at one stage or another, contemplated
moving  to  a different programming language such as BB2, because of AMOS
Professional's lack of Intuition support.

A  new  intuition  extension  has  now  arrived,  is  available  from  F1
Licenceware, and costs only £3.99?  There must be a catch?

Well,  no, there isn't!  This is the AMOS utility programmer's dream come
true.   It  offers full access to intuition, with no more complexity than
creating  an  imitation  of  intuition in an AMOS screen, as performed by
Dialog  Procedures,  Power Procedures etc.  There's even a version on the
disk for AMOS Classic users!

Installation  of  the  extension  couldn't  be  simpler,  although  I had
previously  installed  the  demo  version  on my copy of AMOS, and made a
complete balls-up first time.  Just type the extension name into slot 14,
and  away you go.  REMEMBER that the intuition extension is simply called
"Intuition.Lib",  and NOT "AMOSPro_Intuition.Lib", and everything will be
fine.

So  what  can  you  do with it?  You can open Intuition windows, screens,
create  menus,  gadgets,  and  a  bloody good file requester, which alone
makes  the  disk worth the asking price.  There's also the usual opening,
closing,  resizing  windows  etc,  and  you  can  use  gadgets  and other
requesters  -  in  fact - anything intuition can do, can now be performed
through  AMOS.   Even AGA screenmodes are possible, provided you have the
hardware!

The  command  format  is  also straightforward, with many of the commands
being direct descendants of their AMOS counterparts.  For example:-

Screen Open 0,640,256,16,Hires     becomes:-
Iscreen Open 0,640,256,16,Hires

Even  if you have the IntOS AMOS extension, you really should have a look
at  this,  because  it creates stand-alone programs, without the need for
the  IntOS.Custlib  library  or  anything similar.  It's also much faster
than IntOS.

Fairly  easy  to  use, fast, powerful?  Yeah!  That sums up the Intuition
Extension quite nicely.


FINAL SCORE: 93%


Any  utility programmer who doesn't get this wants shooting!  You too can
now  create screens through AMOS and drag them all over the bloody place!
Great stuff!




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