AMOS, 3 solutions for 3 different problems.

 

 3 solutions for 3 different problems.

AOZ is a web-based solution written in Javascript, intended to run on anything that supports web gl, and Web Assembly. Written by author Francois lionet.

Amos Kittens a portable interpreter written in C / C ++, with the ability run native and has access to native filesystem and other resources, with the intent of remove EUAE from the depenency, Amos Kittens was written by me Kjetil Hvalstrand, project was started around 2017.

Amos Proseronal a development tool meant for beginners in programming, created for Classic Amiga at 198x / 199x, with long history with many extensions. written by Francois lionet. the AGA version is being worked on by Frédéric Cordier.

Before Amos Kittens there was something called XAMOS, but it has no relation to Amos kittens project, XAMOS/JAMOS was written in C and Java, by author Stephen Harvey-Brooks (Mequa), Stephen Harvey-Brooks passed away in 2015. project stopped,

So way AMOS in 2020, well it’s because there are people not like me who has little or no time, but wont be creative, and need safe simple to write programming language, that do not wont mess around programming language’s that crash or freeze the operating system, and just want have fun, playground bobs / sprites and collation detection.  

In addition to this Amiga community is fragmented, this makes hard for developers to make money, because you only can sell your product ¼ of the community, I wonted to give the developers to expand there market, and to become more successful.

By keeping Amos kittens open source, its now possible to see ports to MorphOS and AROS, becouse I'm only one person working on Amos Kittens, I'm focusing on AmigaOS4.1, AmigaOS1.3 - 3.9 has Amos Professional, of couse as prof of consept it be interesting to backport it AmgaOS1.3-3.9, and also for fun compare it the orginal Amos on same CPU, we need to cut down memory foot print, but should be doable. 

Normally C/C++ programs run slower and take more RAM then things written in assembler, but there are some advantages as its easier to work in C/C++ then its to work with 680x0 assembler, there many cases where source code is sold, but nothing is done because source code is impossible to read.