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| TITLE
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| Aminet Set 2
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| CONTENTS
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| The Aminet Set 2 contains close to 4 gigabytes (more than 2 gigs
| compressed) of freely distributable software on 4 CDs.
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| USER INTERFACE
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| Amigaguide based user interface, allows easy unpacking and
| viewing with 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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| - 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 a second or two).
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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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| 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.