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^1            Hello and Welcome to Issue 4 of Totally Amos!

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^4 Thank you to everyone who took the time to answer our questionnaire.
^4We  sent  these  out  with  the  main mailing of the last issue.  The
^4results can be seen in this issue.  We have also had more entries for
^4this  competition  than  for  any other, see the result in the `Other
^4Info' section.

^5 In  response  to  Mr P.K.May's suggestions, we have now modified the
^5following features.

^4 1)  The  up/down  arrows:-  Clicking the right mouse button on these
^4buttons will scroll the text up or down a whole page at a time.  Left
^4mouse will scroll as before.

^52)  If  you  now  wish to print out anything from TA, you will have a
^5choice  of printing the whole article OR just what you can see on the
^5screen.

^4  We  have  had plenty of disks with your programs, we'll put as many
^4as possible on this disk for you to look at.  This issue has been put
^4together with as many readers' programs as possible, these range from
^4progs  written  by  beginners to some by experienced programmers.  We
^4feel  that  as  TA is primarily aimed at the beginner, it should be a
^4place  were  they  stand as much of a chance of seeing their programs
^4included as anyone else.

^5 Apologies time now.

^5  Simon  Nicoll's  program  had been altered to run using the music
^5from  TA, but the fairies got to work and put it back to its original
^5form  before it was sent out to you.  All you have to do to fix it is
^5alter  the  Dir$  line  and  change  the  name  of  the music file to
^5Joy_for_all.abk and all should be well.

^4 The interlace_paul program, as we explained needed two pictures from
^4Technical  Fred's  Digi  Demo disk, or you could alter the listing to
^4take  two  interlace  progs  of  your  own.   Please see the ammended
^4listing in the programming section.

^5 The  one  glaring  ommission  from  the  disk  which only one reader
^5spotted  was  the  Amos  for Kids tutorial file.  It was suprising to
^5learn from  the  questionnaire that although several of you asked for
^5articles  on  absolute  basic  Basic, you didn't read or use Amos for
^5Kids  and some wanted it removed!  From this issue it will be renamed
^5Amos for Beginners.

^4 Due  to  problems  encountered  in  the  past regarding programs not
^4running from the TA disk, we will make sure that they will now do so,
^4but  be warned, if you want to remove them from the TA disk, you will
^4have to alter the listing by changing the disk name or drive etc.  We
^4will  no  longer  assume  that  readers want to move the progs before
^4running them!!
 
^5 The  debate  on  software  piracy  hots  up  with readers' views now
^5starting to come in.

^4 We are trying to get more people to write tutorials for TA, some are
^4very  obliging,  more have to be nagged.  If you have a pet topic and
^4you'd  like  to share your knowledge with others, get your fingers on
^4the keyboard and send us an Ascii file!!  Don't worry about layout or
^4spelling etc, all we want is the words!

^5 On  the  above subject of tutorials, Paul Townsend of Technical Fred
^5has  started  TWO  tutorials  for you.  Look out in future issues for
^5further  articles.  The first is one which has been asked for on many
^5questionnaires - AMAL .  The second is a bit about maths, not the 2+2
^5sort, but Maths as it affects your Screen Effects etc.  Thanks Paul.

^4 Ben  Ashley  has  sent in an article about Comms and Amos.  He is in
^4fact  writing  a  Comms  package in association with Tech Fred at the
^4moment.

^5 Jeff  Tullin has sent us demo fonts and a modified printer driver so
^5that you can try downloading the sample fonts to your printer.

^4 Please  note  that  Déjà  Vu  Software  has  a  new address, look in
^4Sandra's  Space  for  details.  Also Technical Fred's Advert contains
^4details of their alternative address.

^5 If you want to polish up your program's presentation, maybe our
^5article in the programming section will help you out.

^4 We hope you will continue to write in with your views, ideas and
^4programs, we shall try to cover as many suggestions as possible.

^3 Keep on AMOSing!!!

^1 Len & Anne.

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