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The Portal System's Amiga Zone
the AFFORDABLE alternative for online Amiga information.
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Are you spending a fortune to download files and get Amiga information
from the "big name" commercial services? Do you feel ripped off and
abused every time you have to pay $12 or $18 or even $23 an hour on those
systems? Did you just buy a shiny new high-speed modem and find out
you're going to have to take out a second mortgage to use your favorite
information service at 9600bps?
Well, you do NOT have to go broke getting your Amiga goodies
online. You don't have to log on and feel so rushed to do everything
quickly, to avoid enormous monthly billings. For a fraction of what
you pay other services you can join a one that not only has
THE BEST online Amiga support but is connected to the entire
industrialized world. You can download for hours on end at high
speed without having that sword of financial ruin hanging over your
head. Read on!
The Portal Online System is the home of acclaimed Amiga Zone, which was
formerly on the People/Link System. Plink went out of business in
May 1991 and The Amiga Zone's staff moved to Portal the next day.
The Zone has just celebrated its first anniversary on Portal.
The Amiga press has consistantly raved about The Amiga Zone, when
compared to its competition. (Quotes available upon request).
The Amiga Zone is run by Harv Laser, Dan James, Steve Tibbett,
Bill Seymour, Oran J. Sands III, Steve Gillmor, Steve Worley, Kermit
Woodall and Kevin Davidson.
Portal Communications of Cupertino, CA., right in the heart of the
Silicon Valley, is a well-established business with an excellent
reputation and solid financial footing. The Portal Online System runs
on Portal's network of over two dozen Sun Workstations. These are modern,
state-of-the-art computers, not some stodgy old antiquated mainframes.
New disks drives and modems can be added to Portal quickly and at far
lower cost than on services who use old mainframe systems. This means
Portal can expand their services and their hardware quickly and
easily.
If you live in the San Jose, CA area, then you can dial Portal direct.
If you live elsewhere, you can reach Portal through any SprintNet
(formerly Telenet) "indial" node anywhere in the U.S.A. or through
Tymnet from anywhere in North America. If you have an account on
a university or commercial or military Internet-connected system,
you can connect to Portal using their UNIX Telnet or Rlogin programs,
from anywhere in the industrialized world.
Portal is a UNIX system but you don't need to have any working knowledge
of UNIX to use The Portal Online system. It's completely menu-driven,
and offers a set of easy-to-use commands (with built in "help" functions)
which are always visible on your screen while you're online. The Portal
Online System insulates you from the complexities of a UNIX "shell"
account. However, your Portal account also includes a UNIX shell
account if you desire to have one. Just ask for it at the time you
set up your account.
Your account on Portal is extremely configurable. You can use the system
in simple "TTY" mode or set yourself up for ANSI/VT100 emulation. You
can modify Portal's appearance on your screen in dozens of ways.
Here are some of Portal/Amiga Zone's noteworthy features:
- Over 1 GIGabytes of Amiga-specific files, now online, 24 hours a day.
Portal has dedicated a 1.6 GIGabyte disk drive to the Amiga Zone.
We have unlimited space for files and new uploads. Whenever that
drive fills up, we'll add another one! This means we can keep files
online virtually forever. You don't have to feel rushed to download
older files for fear they may be deleted to make room for new ones.
Files and messages can be of any length. No need to split up a
large file to upload it. No need to split up a long message before
you post it.
- PLUS.. The Fred Fish Disk collection of freely distributable
software, online 24 hours a day. Every Disk. All of them. Old
disks are never deleted. Thousands of files. You can download only
a couple files or a whole disk at a time, your choice. Whether you
want Fish Disk #1 or #760, or anything in between, we have it
online NOW. New Fish disks arrive constantly as Fish releases them.
Other services with limited disk space can't offer this vast resource
to its customers. Portal can and does.
- Fast, Batch Zmodem file transfer protocol. Download up to 100 files at
once, of any size, with one command. Zmodem is a recoverable
transfer protocol. What this means to you is that if you ever lose
your modem connection to Portal during a download, you can log back
in, download the same file, and it'll pick up right where it left
off! NO need to start over again.
- 20 Amiga vendor areas with participants like AmigaWorld, ASDG,
Soft-Logik, Black Belt, Apex Publishing, Stylus, Prolific, NES,
and many others including Compute's Amiga Resource with over
4 Megabytes of exclusive Compute magazine disk stuff you won't find
elsewhere.
- 35 "regular" Amiga libraries with thousands of files. Hot new
stuff arrives daily. Since Portal has FTP connections we can get
a new program online within MINUTES of its being announced on Usenet.
- No upload/download "ratios" EVER. Download as much as you want, as
often as you want, and never feel pressued doing it. Start downloading
files with your first session on Portal.
- Live, interactive nightly chats with Amiga folks whose names you
will recognize. Special conferences. Random chance prize contests.
Get your questions answered fast and don't pay a fortune for it.
One recent (Nov. 1992) Wednesday evening's Graphics chat found
Allen Hastings, Eric "DrGandalf" Fleischer, Steve Worley,
Bradley "BWS" Schenck, all chatting with other Amiga Zone users
at the same time. Famous Amiga folks aren't the exception on
Portal, they're the norm.
- Message bases galore where you can ask questions about *anything*
Amiga related and get quick replies from the experts.
- Amiga Internet mailing lists for Imagine, DCTV, LightWave and
HyperAmi are ported right into the Zone message bases. You can
read months worth of postings. They don't scroll off, ever!
No need to clutter your mailbox with them.
- FREE unlimited Internet email. Your Portal account gets you a
mailbox. Send letters of any length to computer users in the
entire industrialized world. No limit. No extra charges. No kiddin!
Portal email has some amazing features: you can even run a mail
session "inside" another mail session to send blind carbon copies
for example. Grab Usenet articles and store copies in your mailbox.
Email a program to a friend in Australia or Sweden or just about
anywhere.
- The USENET hierachy of thousands of "newsgroups" in which
you can read and post articles about virtually any subject you can
possibly imagine. Usenet feeds into Portal many times each hour.
There are 14 Amiga-specific Usenet newsgroups with hundreds of
articles posted every day, including postings by Commodore
personnel. Since Usenet is distributed worldwide, your questions
and answers can be seen by literally hundreds of thousands of
people the same day you post it.
- Other Portal SIGs (Special Interest Groups