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- Short: The complete Aminet on 4 new CDs, desc and index
- Author: umueller@wuarchie.wustl.edu (Urban Mueller)
- Uploader: umueller@wuarchie.wustl.edu (Urban Mueller)
- Type: docs/misc
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- TITLE
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- Aminet Set - The complete Aminet on four new CDs
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- AUTHOR
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- Urban D. Mueller (umueller@wuarchive.wustl.edu)
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- CONTENTS
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- The Aminet Set contains close to 4 gigabytes (more than 2 gigs
- compressed) of freely distributable software on 4 newly mastered
- CDs. There are 12500 archives from the following categories:
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- 4600 Utilities
- 2600 Modules
- 1000 Games
- 1000 Communications programs
- 900 Graphics programs
- 800 Images
- ... and more.
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- If you already have... You get an additional...
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- Aminet CD 4 1425 Megs
- Aminet CD 3,4 1088 Megs
- Aminet CD 2,3,4 743 Megs
- Aminet CD 1,2,3,4 701 Megs
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- USER INTERFACE
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- Amigaguide based user interface, allows easy unpacking and viewing
- using a single mouse click.
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- Extensive search facilities. Finds words in descriptions or readmes,
- and outputs matches as an index that allows direct viewing.
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- Special support for the following categories of files:
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- - Modules. Can be viewed and played from an index that is sorted
- by music style and subsorted by rating.
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- - Images. Can be previewed in a database of thumbnail versions, and
- a double click on the thumbnail shows the full size image.
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- - Games. Can be started using a single click from an index that lists
- all games that can be run on accelerated Amigas, with the best games
- on top. Degrading software started as needed.
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- - Demos. As the games, they can be started using a single click.
- Demos with a quit function are listed separately.
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- - Charts. A list of the most popular programs is on the CD, sorted
- by category.
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- - Fish disks. You can find any of the programs on Aminet using the
- number of the Fish disk it can also be found on. All 1000 Fish
- disks are part of the Aminet CD.
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- - German files. All new files and those with German documentation
- have a German description.
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- CHANGES
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- - 270M of new files out since Aminet CD 4 was made. Snapshot date
- of the set: Dec 18th
- - Special access features, see above. One of the main goals of the
- set is to provide the new interface for the old files as well.
- - Accelerated searches and full text searches (find any text in
- any readme within five seconds).
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- COMPATIBILITY
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- - All Amigas including CDTV/A570. Not compatible with CD32 plus
- Communicator. Compatible with CD32 plus SX1. Not bootable.
- - All Amiga OS versions for the access software. OS 2.0 or even
- 3.0 required for some of the direct viewing features.
- - Readable by all operating systems, including MSDOS, OS/2 and
- UNIX.
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- AVAILABILITY
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- Shipping
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- PRICES
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- The CD can be ordered from the following addresses: (credit cards OK)
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- Germany: Stefan Ossowski (English spoken)
- Tel: +49-201-788778
- Fax: +49-201-798447
- Email: stefano@tchest.e.eunet.de
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- Price: DM 59
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- USA: Fred Fish
- Tel: +1-602-917-0917
- Fax: +1-602-917-0917
- Email: fnf@amigalib.com
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- Price: $39.95
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- Prices exclude shipping. Subscriptions are available. More information,
- including distributors in other countries, is found in the text file
- docs/misc/CD-Orders.txt on Aminet. A complete index of Aminet Set 1
- is found in disk/cdrom/Aminet-Set-1.lha
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- Aminet CD 4 is still available.
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
- -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
- 925039 318955 65.5% 28-Jan-95 23:03:06 Aminet-Set-1
- 2942 1352 54.0% 02-Feb-95 01:00:32 CD-Orders.txt
- -------- ------- ----- --------- --------
- 927981 320307 65.4% 02-Feb-95 00:22:24 2 files
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