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- From: jung@osse.nrl.navy.mil (Greg Jung)
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- Subject: Re: Thinking of buying Aminet CD-ROM
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 18:27:41 GMT
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- In article <4de5e7$e22@mack.rt66.com>, sloppy@mack.rt66.com (John Millington) writes:
- |>I just bought a cheap CD-ROM drive for my A3000. Now I need to buy
- |>some CDs for it, so that I won't feel like I wasted my money. :-)
- |>
- |>Do the Aminet CDs (i.e. the Aminet #9 in the ads near the front of
- |>the latest Amazing Amiga magazine) contain the entire Aminet image
- |>as of a given date, or do they just contain the _new_ files since
- |>the previous CD? (For some reason, the ad made me think that the
- |>Aminet CDs may be incomplete.)
- |>
- The Aminet CDs (singles) contain just the updated software since
- previous aminet, then they include some specialty component such as
- mods, animations, pictures, whatever. Each issue has a description
- and a space breakdown. Files are accessed through a multiview/amigaguide
- interface, so the .readme and a file listing are available at
- a click, or by clicking on the .lha archive, it is decompressed
- to ram: (or designated space) from which it can be tested.
-
- The complete archive (software-wise) is snapshotted on aminet set#1,
- I believe, then set#2 includes material submitted since aminet4.
- |>Also, would I need any additional software (CD file system?) to read
- |>it? I have OS 3.1, which appears to have some with some kind of CD
- |>support.
- |>
- If it doesn't show as an icon, just double-click on
- sys:storage/dosdrivers/cd0 or move this to sys:devices/...
- |> Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin,
- |> John Millington
- |>
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- --Greg
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