AMOS:More about Extensions
When you use extension instructions in your AMOS programs, AMOS only stores two things about them in your source code: the extension slot number, and the extension token number. As stated before, most tokens in AMOS are simply an index into AMOS's central symbol table, which includes the name of the instruction in ASCII, the number and type of parameters the instruction takes, and the actual code for carrying out the instruction.
Extensions are just the same as AMOS's main symbol table. So, armed with an extension slot and index into its token table, you can call any extension instruction. However, there are two big problems with this approach.
Firstly, there are many extensions which use the same slot number as other extensions. Technically you can use any slot number for an extension, although all extensions have a recommended slot number and source code using this extension will most likely have been created with the extension loaded in the recommended slot.
Secondly, some extension authors do not retain backwards compatibility with older versions of their extensions. For example, the author of the TURBO Plus extension changed the two "Reserve Object Chip" and "Reserve Object Fast" instructions into a single "Reserve Object" instruction. He did this by physically removing the first two instructions from the extension's instruction list, and then inserting the new instruction. This is the only bad change he ever made, but it causes a disaster, because it
means that all instructions in the list after that instruction have now changed their instruction number. If you try to load your old AMOS programs that used TURBO Plus version 1.0 with the latest TURBO Plus extension, they will fail to load correctly.
This didn't have to happen! He could simply have left the old instructions alone, and added the new instruction at the end of the list! The same problem exists with the GUI extension, all it did was insert a new form of the "Gui Wait" instruction into the list, and completely ruined backwards compatibility in doing so.
Here is a list of the modules I have found for AMOS and have extracted the symbol tables from. The slot number listed is the recommended slot number for the extension. The Filename is the on-disk filename of the extension. The "Symbols" column is the name I have given to the extracted symbol tables. Where two different extensions share the same symbol name, it is because I have verified that they are compatible with each other, i.e. one has either all of the other's instructions, or a subset of them, and the token number for each instruction does not change between the two modules.
Also noted are the versions of the extension I used. These are the latest ones I can find, and generally all earlier releases have been looked at and found to be backwards compatible. If you have a newer version, I want to know about it!
| Slot | Filename | Symbols | AMOS 1.x version | AMOS Pro version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Music.Lib / AMOSPro_Music.lib | music | 1.62 | 2.00 |
| 2 | Compact.Lib / AMOSPro_Compact.Lib | compact | 1.2 | 2.00 |
| 3 | Request.Lib / AMOSPro_Request.Lib | request | 1.41 | 2.00 |
| 4 | 3d.lib | 3d | 1.00 | |
| 5 | Compiler.Lib / AMOSPro_Compiler.Lib | compiler | 1.35 | 2.00 |
| 6 | Serial.Lib / AMOSPro_IOPorts.Lib | ioports | 1.2 | 2.00 |
| 6 | AMOSPro_IOPortsJ.Lib | ioports | 2.1J | |
| 8 | AMOSPro_AMCAF.Lib | amcaf | 1.50beta4 | |
| 10 | dump.lib | dump | 1.0 | |
| 10 | Ercole.Lib / AMOSPro_Ercole.Lib | ercole | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| 10 | LDos.Lib | ldos | 2.5unreg | |
| 11 | LSerial.Lib | lserial | 2.1unreg | |
| 12 | TURBO1_9.Lib / AMOSPro_Turbo1_9.Lib | turbo1 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| 12 | Amos_TURBO_Plus.Lib | turbo1 | 1.0 | |
| 12 | AMOSPro_TURBO_Plus.Lib | turbo2 | 2.15 | |
| 12 | BUtility.Lib | butility | 1.21 | |
| 13 | Amos_PowerBobs.Lib / AMOSPro_PowerBobs.Lib | powerbobs | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| 13 | Personnal.Lib / AmosPro_Personnal.Lib | personnal | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| 14 | AMOSPro_Game.Lib | game | 0.9 | |
| 15 | amospro_delta.lib | delta | 1.6 | |
| 15 | AMOSPro_DOOM_Music.Lib | doom | 2.0 | |
| 16 | AMOSPro_EasyLife.Lib | easylife | 1.09 | |
| 17 | AMOSPro_locale.Lib | locale | 0.26 | |
| 17 | AMOSPro_Make.lib | make | 1.2 | |
| 18 | CRAFT.Lib | craft | 1.00 | |
| 18 | AMOSPro_JDInt.Lib | jdint | 1.3 | |
| 19 | MusiCRAFT.Lib | musicraft | 1.00 | |
| 19 | AMOSPro_JDK3.Lib | jdk3 | 1.1 | |
| 19 | MED.Lib | med | 7.1 | |
| 20 | AMOSPro_JDColour.Lib | jdcolour | 2.0 | |
| 20 | stars.lib / starspro.lib | stars | 2.33 | 2.33 |
| 20 | AMOSPro_OS_DevKit_20.Lib | osdevkit | 1.61 | |
| 21 | AMOSPro_DBench.Lib | dbench | 0.42 | |
| 21 | AMOSPro_Prt.Lib | prt | 1.4 | |
| 21 | Opal | opal | 1.1 | |
| 22 | AMOSPro_JD.Lib | jd | 5.9 | |
| 22 | AmosPro_First.Lib | first | 0.10.1 | |
| 22 | AMOSPro_Jotre.Lib | jotre | 1.0 | |
| 23 | AMOSPro_Colours.Lib | colours | 1.0 | |
| 23 | AMOSPro_Misc.Lib | misc | 1.0 | |
| 23 | AMOSPro_Tools.Lib | tools | 1.01 | |
| 24 | AMOSPro_GUI.Lib | gui | 1.62 | |
| 24 | AMOSPro_GUI_2.Lib | gui2 | 2.1 | |
| 24 | AMOSPro_sln.Lib | sln | 2.0 | |
| 25 | Int.Lib / AMOSPRO_Int.Lib | int | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| 25 | AMOSPro_P61.Lib | p61 | 1.2 | |
| 25 | AMOSPro_JVP.Lib | jvp | 1.0 | |
| 25 | AMOSPro_TFT.Lib | tft | 0.7 |
Wanted extensions
These are extensions that may exist, but I (Kyzer) don't have. Can you help?
| Slot | Name | AMOS 1.x version | AMOS Pro version | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Enhanced Music | 3.00 | 3.00 | Demo version can be found on AMOS PD #600. May go up to v4.64. |
| 4 | Voodoo 3D | 1.02AP | I have 1.0 for AMOS 1.x, but no Pro version. | |
| 5 | Compiler | 1.36 | I have 1.35. | |
| 7 | TOME | 4.24 | 4.24+ | |
| 8 | CTEXT | 1.32 | Obsolete with Kickstart 2.04+ | |
| 9 | Range / Shuffle | 2.8 | 2.9plus | Range is an AMOS Club extension |
| 10 | Dump | 1.0 | I have the AMOS 1.x version, but no Pro version. | |
| 10 | Ercole | 1.7 | 1.7 | I have 1.6. |
| 10 | LDOS | 2.6 | 1.1 | I have 2.5unreg for AMOS Pro, but no other versions. |
| 11 | Lserial | 1.00 | I have 2.1unreg for AMOS Pro, but no other versions. | |
| 12 | Turbo Plus | 2.00 | I have 1.0. | |
| 15 | D-SAM | 1.01 | ||
| 16 | EasyLife | 1.44 | 1.10 | |
| 17 | Sticks | 1.00 | ||
| 17 | Falcon | - | Any | |
| 20 | THX | 0.6 | ||
| 20 | AGA | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| 22 | Second-Hand Extension | 0.01d6 | ||
| 23 | JADE | Any | ||
| 24 | Diagnostics | Any | ||
| 24 | GUI | 1.70 (I have 1.62) |
