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AMOS Studio - Planning is Underway

Started by BrandonWhitton, Today at 05:58 AM

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BrandonWhitton

I'm a predominantly Mac based developer, though I have extensive experience programming on Windows going back 30+ years. I'm currently in the early stages of planning a major product called AMOS Studio. This will allow either Mac or Windows developers (I'm currently undecided on whether I will develop this for Mac, or for Windows, or for both) to write and compile AMOS programs from Windows/Mac. Current planned features include:

  • full AMOS Professional syntax highlighting
  • automatic indentation
  • keyword completion
  • command/function autocomplete
  • inline syntax checking
  • variable and procedure navigation
  • folding of procedures and logical blocks
  • project management
  • integrated sprite/bob/icon bank management
  • sample and music bank management
  • AMAL editing
  • support for AMOS extensions (limited to a few extensions initially)
  • compilation to Amiga CLI executables
  • compilation to Workbench executables
  • export to genuine AMOS .AMOS source files
  • reading existing .AMOS files
  • reading and writing .ABK
  • reading and writing .ABS
  • support for sprite, icon, music, sample and data banks
  • creation and modification of .ADF disks
  • placing selected project files onto an ADF

This is going to be a major project that will involve a hell of a lot of work on my part. I have several questions in relation to this. Firstly, is there a need for this among the Amiga developer community. I currently write AMOS code in an emulated environment, and I'm sure most others do the same. My second question is - Mac or Windows, or both?. I haven't written a program in Visual Studio in close to a decade. I've been focusing on Mac based development with Xcode over the last decade. But, I'm capable of developing for either platform.

I should also say that given the amount of work involved in this project it will likely be a paid project. Anyway, let me know your opinions on whether this is something people want, and whether I should develop it for Windows, Mac, or both. I'll certainly take all comments into consideration.

FOL

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Nice, thanks for posting here and not on that god aweful platform facebook.
If you need any webspace, etc etc, let me know.

Visual Studio, damn takes me back. I used to use it as an editor only.
I was same, walked away 14 years ago. Back now, :).

Moved Post to AMOS board. If you want a dedicated section, let me know.
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BrandonWhitton

It's fine on the AMOS board.

Cheers