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^4 We  hope  that  you  enjoyed  Christmas and that you will all have a
^4great 1992.

^6 It  was  a bit early to send Christmas greetings at the beginning of
^6November, but this issue is right on time for the New Year.

^5 What  do  you think of the new graphics??  They were designed for us
^5by  Dicon Peeke of Wildfire Graphics who has promised us more goodies
^5in the graphics department in the future.

^2 We hope that you find the facilities of the magazine useful. All
^2instructions are on the text file What's Up doc, but in case you've
^2not read them,

^4 `C' turns the display to two colours if the multicoloured display is
^4difficult to read

^4 `M' turns the music off or on.

^4 `P'  will  print  out the article you are looking at, NB it will not
^4print an index

^4 `S'  brings  up a sample player so that you will be able to hear the
^4samples on the disk.

^2 This  sample  player  was written by Peter Winnard of Technical Fred
^2Software.   He  thought that this was a part of the magazine that was
^2lacking,  after  all you can look at a picture, whereas you could not
^2try a sound sample.  So he wrote this for us and kindly donated it to
^2TA.

^2 This is not just a sound sample player, you can play a sam forwards,
^2backwards,  at  a  different speed, forwards or backwards, or loop it
^2either way around.  So Have fun!!

^2 We  hope  that  Peter will continue to produce quality programs like
^2this.

^5 This  issue  is full of goodies for you, including an interview with
^5Francois  Lionet,  not an interview done for another publication, but
^5an  exclusive  for  Totally  Amos,  taped by our roving reporter Mike
^5Tilley at the World Of Commodore show!!

^4 We have a look at Easy Amos, the new version of Amos aimed at people
^4who are learning to program and tell you which parts of it will be in
^4Amos 2 which comes out soon.

^6 Europress  have  donated  a  copy of the Amos 3-D package as a prize
^6this month, and also copies of Fun School 4 for the kids.

^7 There  weren't  many  entries  for  the competitions set in Issue 1,
^7why???  Come on, try your luck this time!

^1 There  are  more  contributions  from  readers  this  time, both our
^1previous  Spotlight  programmers  have sent disks in, Ben Ashley sent
^1some  reviews  and  an  article on protecting your programs, and Luke
^1Miller sent a disk full of music which will be featured over the next
^1few issues.

^2  We  set  out  to cater for all ages in this magazine and we do have
^2readers  ranging  from  14  to  retired,  it's great to see that AMOS
^2reaches the ages that other programs cann't! So far we have readers
^2in USA, Canada, Italy, France and Germany as well as all corners of
^2the UK. 
 
^4 Please feel free to join in the debate about the pirating of Déjà Vu
^4Licensed  Software,  Sandra puts forward her views in Sandra's Space,
^4and  we  put forward our feelings after what she says.  We would like
^4to know the views of the people out there.

^6 This  issue has plenty of program files on disk for you to play with
^6as well as an alternative file requestor to replace the standard Amos
^6offering.

^7 A new feature this time is the adding of a QUICKIE INDEX.  this lets
^7you  see  at  a glance what you'll find on the disk.  Thanks to Dicon
^7Peeke for the suggestion.

^2 As  it's the silly season, we've put in a section that you can refer
^2to  when  you're programming has tied you up in a knot and you cann't
^2find  the  way  out of your problems.  This part of T.A.  is the only
^2thing  that  hasn't  much  to do with AMOS, any (clean) contributions
^2welcome.

^1 There are plenty of new programs in the Déjà Vu Library to delight
^1you, both on P.D. and Licenseware, see the `What's New'sections and
^1also reviews for more details.

^4 We've  taken  a look at Fun School 4, all sections, it's the best of
^4the  series so far.  Has anyone else tried one of these programs?  If
^4so, let us know what you think.  We'd like your reviews on other Amos
^4programs as well.
 
^2 If  you've  read  the  February Issue of AMIGA SHOPPER, you will see
^2that  Phil  South  has  given  us a very nice write up, we're already
^2getting  responses  fron his article, hopefully we'll get lots of new
^2members who will give us lots more to write about!  Thanks Phil!

^1 We  apologise  for this issue being a bit late, but Christmas got in
^1the  way!   Looking forward to seeing you again in March also looking
^1forward   to  hearing  from  you,  whether  it  is  in  the  form  of
^1contributions to the magazine or entries for the competitions.

                                        ^2Best wishes, Anne & Len Tucker.


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