basic programming

In the final (for now, at least) entry in this series, we are going to pull everything together into a playable “Shoot the Invaders from Space” game that has keyboard and joystick control, …

There is one last popular option for scrolling the screen and covering it gives us an opportunity to introduce the special AMOS animation language, AMAL … Previous AMOS Basic Tutorials in this …

In the previous article, we created a tile map and did a simple scrolling screen using Screen Copy. While it worked, and demonstrated some cool aspects of AMOS, it wouldn’t really be efficient …

Up until now, our AMOS BASIC programming has relied on loading quite large full-screen images as our backgrounds. That is not memory efficient, plus creating maps and levels this way would be quite …

Previously we looked at how AMOS can load images and configure screens, and layered scrolling via a feature called “Dual Playfield”. If we are going to create playable games then we will also need …

Previously we looked at how AMOS can load images and configure screens, setting up screen resolution and number of colours. I also left you with a tease about this lesson, where I mentioned that AMOS …