AMOS tools and extensions

I've been an AMOS programmer since the language was included with Amiga Format issue 42 back in 1993. Some of my code is on Aminet.

It bugged me that AMOS has the option to "lock" a procedure so you can't see how it was written. I reverse-engineered that and produced an unlocker. I also worked on an XAD client that could extract AMOS files like they were archives; they can contain source code, pictures, sprites, music, sound effects and so on.

Eventually I published amostools, which is a collection of portable tools for working with AMOS files:

• listamos prints out AMOS source code
• dumpamos extracts sprites, pictures, sounds, etc. from AMOS memory banks
• unlockamos unlocks locked procedures in AMOS source code

AMOS file formats

I documented all the AMOS file formats on the ExoticA wiki.

AMOS extensions

I documented all the AMOS extensions on the ExoticA wiki.

AMOS allows extensions to the language, and you cannot print the source code of an AMOS program that uses an extension without having that extension. So I started collecting and cataloguing all the AMOS extensions. It's becoming rarer to find AMOS extensions, and old archives go offline, so now I maintain my own archives of them. My sources are:

• AliensRCoolUK run by Andrew D. Burton
• Aminet and Aminet CDs
• AMOS Factory by Jens Van Petersen. Originally hosted at http://members.xoom.com/AmosFactory/ext/eclst.htm but later mirrored by http://www.amigau.com/amigarealm/amos/amos/eclst.htm, which is available in the Wayback Machine while the original is not. So these files are a mirror of a mirror of a mirror
• Ultimate Amiga: The AMOS Factory message board's download area (requires sign-up to access). The AMOS Factory board is now hosted on a forum called Ultimate Amiga.
• The AMOSZine series published by F1 Licenseware

This is not a complete archive of all extensions! It doesn't include extensions found on the AMOS PD CD, for example. For a comprehensive list, see AMOS extensions on the ExoticA wiki.