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- Short: Aminet CD 5 index and description
- Author: umueller@wuarchie.wustl.edu (Urban Mueller)
- Uploader: umueller@wuarchie.wustl.edu (Urban Mueller)
- Type: docs/lists
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- TITLE
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- Aminet CD 5
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- AUTHOR
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- Urban D. Mueller (umueller@wuarchive.wustl.edu)
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- CONTENTS
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- 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, categories overlap)
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- 450M of software newer than Aminet 4 (210M newer than Aminet Set)
- 180M of games
- 20M of top downloads
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- These consist of
- 1400 tools
- 1000 games
- 800 mods
- 150 pics
- 100 demos
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- ACCESS FEATURES
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- Amigaguide based user interface, allows easy unpacking and viewing
- using 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.
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- - German files. A majority of the files on the CD, and all those
- with German documentation have a German description.
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- AVAILABILITY
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- Shipping early in March.
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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 25
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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: $17.95
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- 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
- disk/cdrom/Aminet-CD-4.lha
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- Aminet Set (the complete Aminet on 4 CDs) is still available.
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 268344 98959 63.1% 19-Feb-95 04:44:06 Index
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- 268344 98959 63.1% 19-Feb-95 04:13:56 1 files
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