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Video tutorial: Extended Parallax scrolling in AMOS (04. Apr. 2024)
Following on from his parallax scrolling tutorial, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at how to implement commands such as Double Buffer, Autoback, and Screen Swap in order to address some of the scrolling issues in the latest part of his tutorial ...

Video tutorial: Parallax scrolling in AMOS (16. Mar. 2024)
Following on from the screens tutorials (1, 2, 3), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how to achieve parallax scrolling with the dual playfild command in the latest part of his tutorial series....

Video tutorial: Further screen commands in AMOS (01. Mar. 2024)
Following on from his last two videos about screen commands and especially the "Screen Copy" command, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows more screen commands in the current part of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro, in particular how to scroll a s...

Video tutorial: "Screen Copy" command in AMOS (14. Feb. 2024)
Following on from his last video about screen commands, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at the screen commands "Screen Copy", "Screen Hide" and "Screen Show" in another part of his tutorial series about AMOS Pro. As always, the source file for t...

Video tutorial: Screen commands in AMOS (06. Feb. 2024)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at the commands available for using screens in AMOS programs. As always, the source file for the programme shown in the video can be downloaded free of...

Video tutorial: Reading CSV files with AMOS (13. Jan. 2024)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how he reads CSV (Comma Separated Values) data into a programme and separates the CSV values, both manually and using an automated method....

Video tutorial: Transferring Spectrum-Basic code to Amiga-AMOS (06. Jan. 2024)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how he first enters a printed Basic program from a Sinclair magazine from October 1984 into his 48k ZX Spectrum and then converts it to AMOS Pro on his...

Video tutorial: Playing samples in AMOS (04. Dec. 2023)
Following on from his last tutorial, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows in the current episode how to use samples on the Amiga in an AMOS programme. He also briefly explains how to use Audacity and SoundBox (Aminet link, key available) to get sampl...

Video tutorial: Playing sound in AMOS (16. Nov. 2023)
In another instalment of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' takes a look at the PLAY command in AMOS to see what it does and how it can be manipulated. A small sample programme is available on his website....

Video tutorial: Advanced menu features in AMOS (29. Sep. 2023)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' looks at some of the advanced menu features in AMOS, continuing a video tutorial from last year. The source files for the programme in this video can be down...

Video-Tutorial: Advanced Joystick Sprite Control in AMOS (11. Sep. 2023)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, retro and amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' attempts to answer a user's question about how to apply greater control over sprite animation for a sprite under joystick control: can a sprite be stationary...

Video: Installing PageSetter 2 under Workbench 3.2 (17. Aug. 2023)
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explores in his latest video whether it is possible to install the desktop publishing software "PageSetter 2" (information on version 1), released in 1989 for Workbench 1.3, under Workbench 3.2....

Video tutorial: Building a graphics editor in AMOS, part 2 (03. Aug. 2023)
In the second part of his video tutorial series on creating a simple graphics editor (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' fixes some bugs in the original code and adds Circle functionality. The source code as well as all other pro...

Video tutorial: Building a graphics editor in AMOS, part 1 (27. Jul. 2023)
After finishing his short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' has started a new video tutorial series with this first part, which aims to show in a bit more detail how to program a simple tool for creating a...

Video tutorial: Writing a simple game in AMOS (19. Jul. 2023)
Retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' had published a series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro over the past twelve months (amiga-news.de reported). Based on this, in the latest video he shows how to program a small, functional game and thus finishes his se...

Video-Tutorial: Animation and collision detection of sprites in AMOS (26. Jun. 2023)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, and following on from his last video on sprites, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explains how to control the animation of sprites and how to detect collisions between them....

Video tutorial: Working with sprites in AMOS (12. Jun. 2023)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro, and following on from his last video on sprites, retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explains how to load them from an image bank file (.abk) and how to use the channel or move command to be ab...

Video-Tutorial: Converting iff files into sprites in AMOS (26. May. 2023)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time explains how to convert IFF image files into sprites for an AMOS program....

Video tutorial: Programming assistance for AMOS (20. May. 2023)
In another part of his series of short tutorials about AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' explains in the current video his programming assistance which he wrote for AMOS and which can be downloaded from his homepage. I...

Video tutorial: Detecting BOB collisions in AMOS (05. May. 2023)
In another part of his series of short tutorials on AMOS Pro (amiga-news.de reported), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' this time explains how to detect collisions between one or more Blitter Objects (BOBs). This is done by making use of the Make Mask ...