Short: Aminet Set 1 index and description Author: umueller@wuarchie.wustl.edu (Urban Mueller) Uploader: umueller wuarchie wustl edu (Urban Mueller) Type: docs/misc Architecture: generic TITLE Aminet Set - The complete Aminet on four new CDs AUTHOR Urban D. Mueller (umueller@wuarchive.wustl.edu) CONTENTS The Aminet Set contains close to 4 gigabytes (more than 2 gigs compressed) of freely distributable software on 4 newly mastered CDs. There are 12500 archives from the following categories: 4600 Utilities 2600 Modules 1000 Games 1000 Communications programs 900 Graphics programs 800 Images ... and more. If you already have... You get an additional... Aminet CD 4 1425 Megs Aminet CD 3,4 1088 Megs Aminet CD 2,3,4 743 Megs Aminet CD 1,2,3,4 701 Megs USER INTERFACE 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: - 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. - 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. - Demos. As the games, they can be started using a single click. Demos with a quit function are listed separately. - 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. All 1000 Fish disks are part of the Aminet CD. - German files. All new files and those with German documentation have a German description. CHANGES - 270M of new files out since Aminet CD 4 was made. Snapshot date of the set: Dec 18th - 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 five seconds). COMPATIBILITY - 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. AVAILABILITY Shipping 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 59 USA: Fred Fish Tel: +1-602-917-0917 Fax: +1-602-917-0917 Email: fnf@amigalib.com Price: $39.95 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 of Aminet Set 1 is found in disk/cdrom/Aminet-Set-1.lha Aminet CD 4 is still available.