If there is one thing that's certain about the Internet, it is that it's huge. How big? As big as a very big electronic thing that covers most of our planet. The section of the Internet devoted to the Amiga and its users, the Aminet, is similarly large. So big, in fact, that despite the huge storage space of CD-ROMs there has not been a single disc that has contained more than a fraction of the files in the Aminet.

Now, the Aminet Set gives you the chance to sample the delights of the whole of the Aminet. It's a four-disc collection from Germany that costs £34.99 and covers all the files and programs available from the Aminet as of January 1995.

The Aminet is divided into different categories (directories) that contain files and programs that will be of interest to every Amiga user and for ease of use the Aminet Set has also opted for this simple, but accessible format.

The discs each contain several directories that deal with a range of interests. Disc A is an interesting one which features mostly developer's tools and utility software. But it also seems to be a bit of a spill-over disc, because it also has a bit of everything else too. Disc B contains graphics programs, pictures and animations, text programs and documents. As you might expect this is the most colourful of the discs and has plenty of good examples of creative uses of the Amiga. Disc C is a hotbed of activity and you'll find the demo and games directories here. It also has the Comms and hardware files too. The final disc, D, contains all of the business applications, as well as music programs and modules. Overall, this is a highly impressive collection. For the first time you get the whole of the Aminet. Which means you also get the best the Amiga world has to offer in PD and Shareware too.

These images are good examples of what you can find on the Internet and the Aminet Set CD Rom.

Now, this is something a little different. It's an Internet CD without any programs. What's the point of that? I here you ask. Well, it is just information, in ASCII, taken from the Internet - after all that's what the Internet is really all about.

At first I was a little sceptical. So, I thought I'd take a quick look at some of the directories and the next thing I knew it was two and half hours later! Talk about absorbing, there are files about almost any subject you could think of from comics and video games to building satellite systems and the connection between awareness and technology.

The best thing is that the sources of the information are included, so the next time you log on you'll know where to find all the interesting sites and newsgroups.

This CD-ROM from Germany is devoted to demos. Or to be more precise, the demos the compilers thought were the best of 1994. There are some familiar ones such as 9 Fingers, Big Time Sensuality, Seven Seas and Cream. The demos are compressed on to the disc but can be decompressed surprisingly quickly and most of them are worth waiting for.

Gigantic Games is a CD-ROM stuffed full of more than 1,000 games made up from a mixture of PD, Shareware, demonstrations of commercial releases and some Mac games - which I could find no trace of. Unfortunately, many games didn't work properly on the A1200, despite the best efforts of the Degrader program.