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From: Urban Mueller <umueller@wuarchive.wustl.edu>
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Subject: SUBMIT Aminet CD 5 - The new stuff and all the games
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TITLE
Aminet CD 5
AUTHOR
Urban D. Mueller (umueller@wuarchive.wustl.edu)
CONTENTS
Aminet CD 5 contains 1 Gigabyte of freely distributable software,
The newest file included is dated Feb 8th. The space is used as
follows: (compressed sizes, categories overlap)
440M of software newer than Aminet CD 5 (200M newer than Aminet Set)
180M of games
20M of top downloads
These consist of
1400 tools
1000 games
800 mods
150 pics
100 demos
ACCESS FEATURES
Amigaguide based user interface, allows easy unpacking and viewing
using a single mouse click.
Extensive search facilities. Finds words in descriptions or readmes,
and outputs matches as an index that allows direct viewing.
Special support for the following categories of files:
- Games. Can be started using a single click from the index. A separate
index for games that run on accelerated Amigas exists; system will
be degraded as needed automatically.
- Demos. As the games, they can be started using a single click.
Demos with a quit function are listed separately.
- Modules. Can be viewed and played from an index that is sorted
by music style and subsorted by rating.
- Images. Can be previewed in a database of thumbnail versions, and
a double click on the thumbnail shows the full size image.
- Charts. A list of the most popular programs is on the CD, sorted
by category.
- Fish disks. You can find any of the programs on Aminet using the
number of the Fish disk it can also be found on.
- German files. A majority of the files on the CD, and all those
with German documentation have a German description.
AVAILABILITY
Shipping.
COMPATIBILITY
- All Amigas including CDTV/A570. Not bootable. Usable on CD32
if you boot from RAD: or if you have an SX-1.
- 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.
PRICES
The CD can be ordered from the following addresses: (credit cards OK)
Germany: Stefan Ossowski (English spoken)
Tel: +49-201-788778
Fax: +49-201-798447
Email: stefano@tchest.e.eunet.de
Price: DM 25
USA: Fred Fish
Tel: +1-602-917-0917
Fax: +1-602-917-0917
Email: fnf@amigalib.com
Price: $17.95
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 is found in
docs/lists/Aminet-CD-5.lha
Authors of software on the CD are entitled to one free CD. Send
HELP FREEBIES to aminet-server@wuarchive.wustl.edu for more
information.
Aminet Set (the complete Aminet on 4 CDs) is still available.