Amos Professional Unity - Public Alpha Release 2 Available

[freddix]

I'm happy to announce you the immediate availability of the 2nd Amos Professional Unity - public alpha release.

This versions bring some new enhancements to support the AGA Chipset :

• AGA Sprites with 16,32 and 64 pixels width

• AGA Sprites combination (like original Amos Professional but with AGA capabilities)

• Sprite color palette selection

• New system ScreenFX to create Stunning visual effects in Amos Professional Unity screens

• Simple Rainbox FX developed using the ScreenFX

• True 64 colors screens

• And more...

Details about new commands given by the 2nd public alpha release are available here : http://amos-professional-aga.frederi...lpha-release-2


As a remind, the 1st public alpha release did already bring these enhancements to support AGA Chipset :

• The use of to 256 colors in low (320pix) and high (640pix) resolution using 24 bits precision.

• The use of Ham8.

• The use of AGA Sprites up to 64 pixels wide and combinations like Amos Professional 2.0 did, but enhanced to AGA capabilities

• The use of 2x16 colours screens in dual playfield mode

• The use of a new Fading system handling the entire 256 colors palette using 24 bits colors precision (before 32 or 64EHB)

• The use of a new Rainbow system using 24 bits colors precision.

• The use of Bobs and Icons up to 256 colors. That can be saved to disk and loaded from disk as standard Amos Professional memory banks

• The capability to load and save iff/ilbm files with up to 256 colors or Ham8.

• And many more others interesting things...

Details about news commands given by 1st public alpha release are available here : http://amos-professional-aga.frederi...lpha-release-1


You can see all details like Download link, in the official website :
http://amos-professional-aga.frederic-cordier.fr/

The 2021 Roadmap will show you the progress of the project and, you can see now, that AGA support is considered as "completed" (What I wanted to makes Amos Professional Unity support concerning AGA is now done and available). This mean that support for Vampire SAGA graphic & audio chipsets will soonly start.
You can consult the Roadmap2021 here : http://amos-professional-aga.frederi.../?roadmap-2021


But it's not all! Another release is available :

SpecialFX extension/plugin First Public Alpha Release :
SpecialFX extension is a library (.lib) under development for Amos Professional Unity.
In the future, it will contains methods that were available in my old Personal.lib for Amos Professional (classics).
And it will also contain new features.
All details about this extension/plugin are available here : http://amos-professional-aga.frederi...personal-unity

The current alpha release contains new commands sets:

• Some minors commands from the old personal.lib plugin

• Memblocks (like TheGameCreators DarkBASIC Professional)

• FastMem CPU Icons commands

• Sprites Playfield commands

The details of these new commands is available here : http://amos-professional-aga.frederi...personal-unity

Details concerning which sprites combinations are compatible with the SpecialFX "Sprite Playfield" are available here : http://amos-professional-aga.frederi...leted--details


A 3rd project called "AM2D Creator" is also under development:
It's a full 2D Map Editor for Amos Professional Unity with support for 256 Colors 2D tiles.
The page is empty (only a gallery) but you will see news appear soonly.
Details are here : http://amos-professional-aga.frederi.../?am2d-creator

Some videos showing AM2DCreator, new ScreenFX effects like "Simple Rainbow FX" and "Sprites Playfield", Compilation tests, AGA Sprites, 256 Colors, are available in the official youtube channel for the project : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCf...2RTd13Kh56v2Rw

Do you remember when computing was fun ?
I remind as it is fun again for me. I hope it will be again for you too...

[Retro1234]

That is Fing brilliant I was going to ask about AGA sprites.

[Pyromania]

This is awesome, thank you for all the hard work and this nice release.

[fryguy]

Cool!