Paradigm | Imperative, Procedural |
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Developer | François Lionet and Constantin Sotiropoulos |
First appeared | 1990 |
Typing discipline | Static |
OS | AmigaOS |
License | BSD style license |
Website | AMOS and STOS |
Dialects | |
AMOS, Easy AMOS, AMOS Professional | |
Influenced by | |
STOS BASIC |
AMOS BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language for the Amiga computer. Following on from the successful STOS BASIC for the Atari ST, AMOS BASIC was written for the Amiga by François Lionet with Constantin Sotiropoulos and published by Europress Software in 1990.
The language was notable for its focus on media and game development capabilities, allowing users to easily create demanding multimedia software and games. It featured full structured code and numerous high-level functions for loading and manipulating images, animations, and sounds. These capabilities made it a popular choice among Amiga enthusiasts, particularly beginners, for creating video games (especially platformers and graphical adventures), multimedia applications, and educational software.