Short: Aminet CD 5 index and description Author: umueller@wuarchie.wustl.edu (Urban Mueller) Uploader: umueller wuarchie wustl edu (Urban Mueller) Type: docs/lists Architecture: generic 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, categories overlap) 450M of software newer than Aminet 4 (210M 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: - 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. - German files. A majority of the files on the CD, and all those with German documentation have a German description. AVAILABILITY Shipping early in March. 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. 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 disk/cdrom/Aminet-CD-4.lha Aminet Set (the complete Aminet on 4 CDs) is still available.