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A lot of people have forgotten exactly what the advantages of purchasing or
using floppy based titles! The most lightly reason for this is because of
CD-ROM becoming so popular now days, also because of the reduced price of
modems and easy access to the internet etc. The point is however, floppy
disks have some huge advantaged that are often not recognised:-
1. Little auto boot beauties. Anyone and everyone with an
Amiga can appreciate your work! How many people have
floppy drives?
2. Many authors, and general users alike, do not like the
internet as a means of publication. This is mainly
because there is a complete lack of selectivity, and
any old rubbish gets included on an FTP sight (such as
Aminet). The same often applies to CD-ROMs etc.
3. You can compile your own collections on to disk Thus
people can enjoy a disk the way the YOU, the user, want
it to be! Why should you have to use a CD-ROM that has
been designed and compiled in a way designed by someone
else?
4. You can easily copy them. As they are Public Domain
titles, it's perfectly legal to give them to your
friends etc.
5. Gain fame! If you want to make contact with other
users compiling a PD floppy disk can be a really good
way of making new Amiga contacts. One guy gets hold of
a copy, he gives a copy to his/her friends, someone
buys a copy from a PD library etc. People see you are
the one who compiled the thing, and then they all get
in contact with you! You might even get a mention on
the credits of our next library CD!
6. No more searching for that title on your huge CD
collections, often full of software you will probably
never use! Simply pick out the disk which YOU
originally decided to included in your collection, and
that YOU find is useful!
7. If you use things like NDOS loaders in your
productions. You can keep your title unique. No FTP
sight should dictate how YOU, THE CODER, MUST upload
your work in a particular file format, that is less
powerful than you are capable of programming!!
8. Some may say that this is the same with FTP sights,
but the point is, anyone can compile a disk, you do
not need to be a programer to compile utilities,
games, intros etc. If you do not beleve me take a
look at disks such as:-
SAMMY THE DOG CLI UTILS
The VARK CLI SERIES
The QUARTZ INTRO PACKS
The QPD GOOD STUFF SERIES.
The UTILITIS STASH, GAMES STASH etc.
The ROBS HOT STASH SERIES.
And lets not forget the superb LSD TNG disks.
9. If you send in stuff to Quartz PD, you can be sure to
receive software back in return. You may even get a
free copy of one of our Quartz PD CD-ROMs etc.
It is important that we get some submissions, or otherwise we will close
down the library, thus another Amiga developer goes down the pan!!! Also
it would be 10 years of high quality software archives down the drain!
So if you want to send us anything:-
44 Cecil St,
Walkden,
Manchester,
M28 3LE.
Submissions will be awarded greatly, we even have some Amigas to give away!
Top disk swappers will receive CD-ROMs, PD disks, and we even have some
accelerated A3000s & A4000s to give away! They have been kindly GIVEN to
us by a recently deceased Amiga software company!