In this archive are 5 AMOS programs, all written by me (Paul Hickman - NO
relation to Peter). Feel free to copy / modify / distribute / include in your
own programs, but please acknowledge where you got them.

Also, I`d love to hear suggestions (or see examples) of improvements, comments
and bug fixes (I hope these won't be necessary). All have only been tested on
standard AMOS version 1.36

File_Copy.acc

	How often are you running AMOS from floppy, with no workbench, and
	your suddenly find you need to copy a file to your boot disk to get
	your programs to work?

	The short accessory provides a simple no frills file-copier. I
	understand that this is defaunt in AMOS PRO, as you get a SID/
	DIR Works style disk manager.


Mask_Modify.AMOS

	Probably the most usefull program, this is a procedure to change
	the colour that is transparent on bobs. You can either

		- Choose any one colour that is transparent instead of
		  colour 0.

		- Choose any one colour that is the only colour visible
		  (All others being transparent)

		- Make no colours transparent (Similar to No Mask), but
		  do not leave a strip of colour 0 to the right of the
		  image if it's width is not a multiple of 16.

	All these changes leave your bobs totally compatible with all
	AMOS commands, as it's only the mask bitmap that is modified.


Pixel_Tools.AMOS

	This program contains four routines providing mosaic style effects.
	To get the idea, run the program - It requires a picture from the
	AMOS data disk for the example, but you can use any 16 colour IFF
	Picture if you don't have this one.

	Pixel Write : 	Makes a string appear a pixel at a time in a semi-
			Random order, storing the background.

	Pixel Clear :	Replace the background from the last pixel write in
			the same mosaic style

	Pixel Copy  :	Similar to screen copy, but copies the area in small
			blocks of a specied size, with a mosaic pattern

	Pixel Blank :	Clears the area of the screen given in a mosiac
			style

	If you have AMOS Turbo extension, you can use F plot and F point to
	speed up Pixel Write & Pixel Clear, by replacing the plot and point
	instructions with them


Poly_Landscape.AMOS

	A simple example of a light source shaded background (Midwinter style)
	generated with the polygon command. It's fairly slow, unless compiled

Quick_Compiler.AMOS

	For those who a developing, thus repeatedly compiling the same program.
	replaces 50K of Compiler.AMOS with 1.7K. (Although you lose the ability
	to crunch programs, I prefer to use Powerpacker, so virus checkers can
	decrunch & check the programs)

	Erm.. A slight bug here, I've left the name of the last program I
	compiled in S$ and D$ at the start of the program - please replace
	them with

		s$=""
		d$=""

	Otherwise you won't get any file requesters!

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Machine A500 WB1.3 - 1mb Memory - External Disk Drive.