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- Short: Index and description of Aminet CD 4
- Author: umueller@wuarchie.wustl.edu (Urban Mueller)
- Uploader: umueller@wuarchie.wustl.edu (Urban Mueller)
- Type: docs/misc
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- Aminet CD 4 contains 1.1 Gigabytes of freely distributable software,
- The newest file included is dated Oct 8th. The space is used as follows:
- 330M of software that has appeared since Aminet CD 3 (15-Jun-94)
- 230M of modules (music)
- 100M of top downloads (most frequently accessed files)
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- Those consist of:
- 1700 Modules
- 1600 Utilities
- 250 Games
- 100 Demos
- 80 Animations
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- Access features:
- - Amigaguide based user interface, allows easy unpacking and
- viewing with a single mouse click
- - Extensive search facilities. Finds words in descriptions and
- outputs matches as an index that allows direct viewing
- - Many guides to the contents of the CD. E.g. top downloads lists,
- new software recommendations, and style sorted module lists
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- Changes since Aminet CD 3:
- - Almost all of the contents. Less than 100M of the Aminet CD 4
- contents were already found on CD 3, mostly top downloads
- - Viewing programs are now configurable, ie you can pick your own
- module players and image viewers
- - The search facility now accepts search patterns with wild cards
- (OS 2.0 required for this feature)
- - An index of all earlier Aminet CD's exists and can be searched
- using the find tool
- - There is now a BBS index files (files.bbs) in every bottom level
- directory
- - There is now a module player that works under OS 1.3, ie you
- can play the mods on CDTV (memory expansion recommended)
- - Also included is a random player that plays music from the CD in
- the background
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- Availability:
- - Germany/Europe: stefano@tchest.e.eunet.de +49-201-788778
- Aminet Gold DM29.80 (includes Aminet donation), Aminet Share DM19.80
- - USA/Canada: fnf@amigalib.com +1-602-917-0917
- Aminet Gold $19.95 (includes Aminet donation), Aminet Share $11.95
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 256166 88520 65.4% 18-Oct-94 17:46:14 Index
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- 256166 88520 65.4% 09-Nov-94 20:06:44 1 files
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