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Subject: Guide to Amiga shareware/freeware?
Date: 21 Mar 1996 01:02:08 -0500
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Can anyone recommend a somewhat extensive "Guide to Amiga sharaware/
freeware" that may have been published recently in any of the British
or American Amiga magazines?  I've been on the internet for some
years but for various reasons, really didn't start downloading a lot
until recently.  For instance, right now I'm looking for a reasonable
text editor, a better AmigaGuide reader, etc., and it occurred to me
that the Amiga community could use an organized guide to the programs
on Aminet...not just the author's desciption of features, but some-
thing that put the better programs in a given category head-to-head
in terms of features, stability, support, etc.  (FYI, I've gone through
about half of Aminet's disk directory browsers and am currently using
Ordering, although even it has given me some grief.  I have yet to
try the MUI programs, the very oldest programs, and some of the largest
programs in this category, but I'll get to them at some point.)

Is such a guide available somewhere?  Is anyone interested in writing
a shareware/freeware column for Amiga Report? ;-)  Does anyone think
this is a good idea??  I'd be happy to publish my directory utility
findings whenever I feel they're conclusive, but that may take a while.

Thanks,

Todd
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