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AFCD37 - 640Mb+ estimated - March 1999
Updated AHI and MUI (not with new versions, just to make sure the installers
work) this issue, not much else though! Oh yes, we've added banner ads to the
bottom of the web pages. If you'd like to put one on our pages, please send a
static or animated gif file of no more than 15k and 400x40 to
afcd@futurenet.co.uk.
AFCD36 - 645Mb - February 1999
Changed the way that AFCD_Changes works so that new CDs are at the top of the
file now, rather than at the bottom!
Took out the explicit path for all the default tools. If you're having trouble
getting things to work, make sure you have AFCDView in your path - your C:
directory would be a good place for it. Also, AFCDFind got updated this month
so that if you only want to search a particular portion of the CD it's
possible, and much faster than it used to be.
AFCDPrefs also receives its first update in an age, but it's well worth the
wait since the new version allows for a lot more filetypes and also allows you
to make use of Directory Opus' filetyping if you are running a current version
of that program. All hail Oliver Roberts!
AFCD35 - 643.2Mb - January 1999
Two additions this CD: The first is the fact that we now have an ARexx drawer
in the -Seriously_Amiga-/Programming directory, the second is that we now also
have an additional drawer in ReaderStuff. Prompted by requests from users we're
going to have A "readers' Workbench" drawer which will contain images of Amiga
users' Workbenches along with readmes explaining just what they use to make
their Workbench look the way it does.
Also, advanced warning for next issue: We'll be taking off the +AFCD_Setup+
file since it has become less and less valuable as time has gone on. We provide
SnoopDOS on our CD every month, so if you find that there are libraries or
fonts that you are lacking you can always copy them across to your hard drive.
We'll also be changing the default tool AFCDView from ":c/afcdview" to simply
"afcdview". This may mean that you'll need to copy AFCDView into your C:
directory to be able to read files, but since it's only a tiny program this
shouldn't be a problem.
AFCD34 - 644.3Mb - Christmas 1998
Only two changes this month. The first is that websites get no leeway from us
if they want to stay on the CD. The only option if you have a website that you
want to appear on every AFCD is to send it in to us every four weeks, whether
it has changed or not. The second thing to change is the fact that apparently
some people have a problem with drawers called Workbench being on our CD, so
we've changed the name to just WB throughout. We've also edited the preferences
for the browsers on our CD so that will hopefully stop the "Disk is write
protected" problem when using a browser from off the CD. We haven't tried this
solution before, so it may not work, but it's worth a try, right? :)
AFCD33 - 642.7Mb - December 1998
Another plus. We're considering getting rid of most of the files on the CD
related to booting. CD³² owners have until AFCD35 to complain, otherwise we'll
go ahead and stop the CD booting and ditch more of the system files. We've also
ditched a bunch of stuff from the +System+ drawer this month bringing the total
for the +System+ drawer down below 50 meg and the total number of System files
on the CD down to about 7%. If we can get rid of the booting part of the CD, we
can probably get rid of another 1% giving us just 6% repeated stuff every CD.
AFCD32 - 647Mb - November 1998
Robert C. Miller has done a whole bunch of icons for our CD this month to
please all the newicon fans out there. We'll be using them from now on and
putting the MWB:NI question a rest.
Again, this is a packed CD this time, especially given that we received a CD
from one reader! We've had to redo the AVI file he sent us as an mpeg, but you
won't be able to see it in on this CD since there wasn't the time to do it (or
the space on the disc!) for this one.
We've also included some new utilities in the C: drawer for DOpus users. Dread,
Dshow and DPlay can be used in your AFCDPrefs to use DOpus' settings for text
file reading, picture showing or sound playing, to make our CD even more
integrated with DOpusbench.
AFCD31 - 555Mb (plus audio track) - October 1998
Added a new newicon to the CD this month. Robert C. Miller is the artist
involved and we think he's done a great job on it. The starburst around it
really gives it a sense of wonder that we hope you find on our CDs (corny, I
know).
Archived some of the early AFCD indices (AFCD1-10) so that they take up less
room on CD. You can't get these CDs any more anyway. We'll be doing the same
every ten CDs from now on.
Updated the ARexx script that AFCDFind uses. You should have no problems in
DOpus now getting it to bring up the windows or files you need.
Updated subs advice.
AFCD30 - 646Mb - September 1998
Cleared up a glitch in the AFCD_Setup script that meant that font prefs
couldn't be found on AFCD28 and AFCD29. Added a new drawer to
+System+/Tools/Workbench called Archivers which contains 68k and PPC versions
of all the common archiving tools. Also added some diagnostic tools to the
Expert drawer, and AHI and RTGMaster to the Sound and Graphics drawers
respectively.
Hopefully we should have some major changes in AFCDFind this CD, including the
long-requested ability to search for a file, click on a link and have the
file or drawer open up automatically. Unfortunately, it will only be people
using a current version of DOpus that will have access to this function because
Workbench isn't powerful enough!
Added a Roadmap page to the html so that beginners can find their way around
our CD easily. Changed ScreenPlay/Commercial so it has dashes, more consistent
with SeriouslyAmiga/Commercial. Changed the layout of the websites drawer to
make it more neat.
Deleted more obsolete libraries and the like to bring down further the amount
of repeated System files you have to deal with. Even so, I doubt that total
System usage will go down at all (it's more likely to go up) since we've added
some new tools and obviously the index for this CD. Even so, you'll find more
new stuff on our CD every month than anywhere else!
Design for the CD itself and its packaging changes this month. Our Art Editor
Colin has worked hard on a new look for the disc.
Commercial software: none.
AFCD29 - 645.2Mb - August 1998
So far, there aren't a lot of changes to be made to this CD, mainly because
we're waiting to find out what you think of AFCD28. We're looking at adding
better DOpus functionality, because it seems that many of you are running it as
a WBR, and we can do a lot more (interactively) with it than we can with
Workbench. Updated the survey to keep it up to date. Updated AFCDView so that
it works properly with the new layout from AFCD28, and included the demo of
Golem that we missed out on last month. Check it out, you'll be amazed, honest!
Commercial software: none.
AFCD28 - 644.4Mb - July 98
Removed the Prefs drawer from +System+ and moved AFCDPrefs into +System+
itself. Got rid of the Superview library files from libs since we had already
got rid of the SVPrefs program and it was out-of-date anyway. Exclusive demo of
Golem's ace new XFL animation format which gives you full-screen, full-speed
animation with synchronised sound. Added AFCD history to the CD. Got rid of
separate Reader Warrant file and updated the Survey and Readme template. We
also made a big change in the -Seriously_Amiga- drawer by moving the shareware
drawers into their parent directory. This means that we have an extra directory
deep to play with which comes in handy mainly for the Programming drawer.
Commercial software: none.
AFCD27 - 642Mb - June 98
Little things really. Added little animated AF logos to the web pages, lost the
icon for the Indices drawer in +System+, added new viewers to the Tools drawer,
and so on.
Commercial software: F1GP
AFCD26 - 642Mb - May 98
A refinement of AFCD25. The Websites drawer got "-"s to put it up with the
content drawers in a lister, the viewers drawer got renamed to Tools and had a
lot added to it. Every month now, the AFCD will provide a useful collection of
tools, utilities and commodities for you to make use of. A subscriptions page
was added to Ben_Speaks! and the layout of it was changed to include frames
(not that I think frames are great, they just make navigation easier in this
instance). The Demos drawer was renamed to MegaDemos to save any confusion with
any other kind of demo. We've also reduced the amount of system files on the CD
to ensure that more of our CD is new stuff than the competition. As it stands
on this CD, less than 8% of the disc's contents are actually repeated material,
whereas CU's disc had more than 12%.
Commercial software: PPaint 7.
AFCD25 - 643.1Mb - April 98
All change! For the first time really since AFCD6, the CD was laid out afresh.
Instead of having nine drawers at the root and two files, we, all of a sudden,
dropped to only six drawers and one file - Ben_Speaks!. Speaking of which,
Ben_Speaks! changed this month from being a boring old Amigaguide file into
HTML, bringing together all the disparate elements of the CD: namely
Submissions advice, websites, Ben Speaks and subs, although subs isn't here
yet. The restructuring was done to leave CoverDisks, ReaderStuff,
Seriously_Amiga, ScreenPlay and In_the_Mag in the root and to add a new drawer
called System which contained pretty much what Look_here_1st! had contained,
but better. PD_Select was renamed to demos and put into the In_the_Mag drawer.
Because we ensured that you wouldn't have to run some horrid startup script to
make sure that everything ran from the CD okay, AFCD_Setup was moved to the
System drawer as well. We also had a few problems with this CD because some
Sanyo 2x SCSI CD-ROM drives wouldn't read it because it stretched the ISO9660
standard too far for them.
Commercial software: UFO Enemy Unknown.
AFCD24 - 639.2Mb - March 98
This CD was the first one done in the new year for us, so it was also the first
CD we did that had loads of Doom info on it. It was also another CD where we
had huge numbers of contributions from you (more than 180Mb). Other than that,
there weren't many changes from the previous CD.
Commercial software: none.
AFCD23 - 645.6Mb - February 98
Judging by responses we've had via email and in the post to AFCDPrefs, it
seemed that many of you weren't sure what to do with it, so I took the time to
explain it in Ben_Speaks! that CD. It's all a bit out of date now, but still
relevant. The CD kept on keeping on that month, but we did have a novelty in
the shape of our first ever MP3 file which was Petro Tyschtschenko's speech
from Cologne. It was terrible quality, but then it was never designed to go
onto the CD in the first place, it was only many requests from readers that
forced our hand.
Commercial software: none.
AFCD22 - 649.4 - January 98
Not much has changed since the previous CD, although we do have another
exclusive game demo in the shape of Foundation on this CD. Other than that and
just about 100Mb of reader contributions, the CD contains the usual up-to-date
mix of shareware and the like.
Commercial software: none.
AFCD21 - 648.5Mb - Christmas 97
This CD saw the start of yet another new feature to help you, the reader. We
started the very popular Reader_Requests drawer on AFCD21 and it has been very
successful so far. There was also a new AFCDSurvey to fill in and send to us
(we must have had 5,000 of these surveys so far. I read every one of them and
try to reply where possible). We also had an exclusive demo of the long-awaited
Genetic Species on AFCD21.
Commercial software: none.
AFCD20 - 651.3Mb - December 97
This CD sees the debut of AFCDPrefs, the tool that has made the AFCDs more
personalised than ever. The marvellous Oliver Roberts wrote this for us too and
like AFCDFind, it has improved and improved over the months we've been using
it, thanks to our increased familiarity with it and your helpful suggestions
through the AFCDSurvey. We had exclusive demos of Final Odyssey and Uropa 2 on
this CD along with a full version of NetBSD.
Commercial software: none.
AFCD19 - 433.4Mb (plus audio tracks) - November 97
Just a bit of a jiggle for the drawers on the CD this month - guaranteed to
confuse everyone, but we didn't get too many complaints. It seems that a lot of
you liked the audio tracks we had on the CD too.
Commercial software: none.
AFCD18 - 616.5Mb - October 97
Look_here_1st! gets plus signs now to make sure it appears at the top of your
listers in DOpus, but other than that there aren't many changes. We had 25
different websites on the CD and more than 120Mb of your contributions though.
Commercial software: Aquanaut.
AFCD17 - 574.5Mb - September 97
This CD sees the introduction of the superb AFCDFind written especially for us
by that wiz Oliver Roberts. It made finding what you were looking for on our CD
so much better than having to trawl through the listed indices that it was a
shock, but even so it's improved immeasurably since then. Nice one Oliver!
Commercial software: none.
AFCD16 - 654.3Mb - August 97
Our fullest CD yet! This CD accompanied our 100th issue so we included all 100
top shareware titles which, no doubt, helped to fill the disc to the brim. The
only obvious change this month is the fact the the AFCD_Setup file gains some
plus signs in front of and behind its name and gets moved to the root of the CD
to encourage you to use it more. We also tried out a Reader Ads section on the
CD, but it didn't work out and was, instead, transplanted into the magazine.
Commercial software: none.
AFCD15 - 644.2Mb - July 97
The AFCD setup script becomes one file this month instead of two, but other
than that there's not much change. However, as you can see, this CD is very
full indeed.
Commercial software: none.
AFCD14 - 550.5Mb - June 97
Again, not much changed for AFCD14 if I remember rightly. We had a lot of games
though this issue including exclusive items from Vulcan previewing their
up-and-coming games (some of which still haven't reached us!).
Commercial software: none.
AFCD13 - 460.6Mb - May 97
An all-time low for content. We were decidedly hampered by Aminet not working
properly and a lack of time generally. A first mention of Quake in Ben_Speaks!
Commercial software: Scala 1.13.
AFCD12 - 617.1Mb - April 97
And now we start to consolidate with the CD. We've made a lot of changes over
the previous eleven discs and now the CD is pretty good, EMC can get on with
compiling instead of worrying about how to improve it. Of course, changes will
come, but not yet.
Commercial software: PPaint 6.4, Cinema 4D 2.
AFCD11 - 589.6Mb - March 97
A change in CD compiling took place this CD with the excellent
EMComputergraphic taking the helm. As a first step, they got every single
datatype that could be found at the time and put them on the CD. This CD also
marks the first appearance of the minus signs at the start and end of the
important directory names. The reason for this is to make them easier to find
in a directory utility like DOpus. We also had the complete (but unannotated)
source for Alien Breed 3D2.
Commercial Software: Turbocalc 2.1.
AFCD10 - 646.1Mb - February 97
A really packed CD this month and the first appearance of NewIcons for the
CD and for Ben_Speaks!, for what it's worth. We now have nine drawers in the
root of the CD to make it look neater (the extra drawer is one for Prefs). The
main work I did on the CD was to create a massive set of AmigaGuide docs for
all the transcsripts of the Lightwave Mailing list, along with huge numbers of
objects, scenes and the like for the premier 3D package for the Amiga. We also
started lining up the drawers in a now-familiar style and included a Reader
Warrant in the Look_here_1st! drawer.
Commercial software: FontMachine.
AFCD9 - 576Mb - January 97
We had interviews in Quicktime format on this CD, that weren't playable using
the Quicktime players available to us at the time. They may well be now, so if
you want to hear what Wolf Dietrich and Jason Compton had to say a year and a
half ago, give them a try now.
Commercial software: Octamed 6.
AFCD8 - 517Mb - Christmas 96
First appearance of our new AFCD icon, created for us by a reader. A new icon
for Ben_Speaks! - me with much shorter hair (it's probably about time for
another new one as I write this at the start of the production schedule for
AFCD28). Ben_Speaks has my thought for the month for the first time, but will
remain in AmigaGuide format for some time to come. Serious turns into
Seriously_Amiga. Still not many websites and the Andy Davidson interview didn't
get on the disc either. Also, we didn't want your MODs any more because of
copyright infringements.
Commercial software: Cinema 4D.
AFCD8 - 517Mb - Christmas 96
First appearance of our new AFCD icon, created for us by a reader. A new icon
for Ben_Speaks! - me with much shorter hair (it's probably about time for
another new one as I write this at the start of the production schedule for
AFCD28). Ben_Speaks has my thought for the month for the first time, but will
remain in AmigaGuide format for some time to come. Serious turns into
Seriously_Amiga. Still not many websites and the Andy Davidson interview didn't
get on the disc either. Also, we didn't want your MODs any more because of
copyright infringements.
Commercial software: Cinema 4D.
AFCD6 - 600.4Mb - November 96
First appearance of Look_here_1st! drawer (unwieldly-ly called
Have_a_look_here_first! on this CD!).This drawer contained the startup scripts
and the colour patchers making the total number of icons in the root: drawers
8, files 1. It's also the first appearance on the AF_on_the_Web drawer,
although the only website included was the old AF pages. This CD marks the
first appearance of the venerable AFCDSurvey.
Commercial Software: none.
AFCD5 - 551.1Mb - October 96
Loads of problems! Lots of people reported that they couldn't read this disc
although we had had no trouble with it. Nick_Speaks! from the previous CD was
replaced with Ben_Speaks! and has stayed the same ever since (although the icon
has been improved!). First appearance of the In_the_Mag drawer.
Commercial Software: None, but large numbers of PhotoCD images of Bath.
AFCD4 - 526.6Mb - Spetember 96
First CD compiled by Ben. This CD was the start of the current layout, although
there were nine drawers and five file icons at the root.
Commercial software: none, but AlienBreed - Tower Assault movie.
AFCD3 - 475.2Mb (but there are audio tracks) - August 96
First audio tracks (excerpts from speeches given at the Toulouse press
conference) on an AFCD! No sign of the front end from AFCD1 & 2.
Commercial Software: TypeSmith v2.5.
AFCD2 - 644.5Mb - July 96
Still using the CanDo-generated front end, but it's getting difficult to keep
it up-to-date already.
Commercial Software: CanDo v2.5, Octamed 5, Wordworth 5.
AFCD1 - 614.4Mb - June 96
It's all new! What changes could there possibly be, other than the last minute
omission of Nick's toilet fury full-screen video.
Commercial Software: Real 3D v2.5, Real 3D v1.5, Blitz Basic v2.1AF, Personal
Fonts Maker 2.