REVIEW: Workbench Add-On Volume 1 CD-ROM

by: Pauli Porkka


Workbench Add-On vol 1 Review: Workbench Add-On Vol 1 (By Bohus Blahut)


yippee, a new cd-rom collection series (atleast I hope it will be a series). Workbench Add-On is a PD/SW collection but before you say 'yeah, so what's new about that?' it differs from Aminet collections in having old and new stuff in it. The base idea on this CD is to collect all the best utilities to the same disk wheter it is new or not. VERY NICE idea indeed. I mean what are the chances of a new Amigoid to find all the necessary and much needed stuff which Amiga-veterans have been enjoying for years..not much. This compilation should definately be included with new Amiga packages so that new user could avoid searching for older programs which haven't been updated for the past few months or even years but are still unbeatable.

The CD is divided to Aminet style directories (not exactly but close). Every program is in its own directory unarchived so you can either start it from the CD or copy the directory to your disk and start from there. For BBS SysOps the files are also included in archived form in separate directory.

The Emulate directory contains ShapeShifter - MacIntosh emulator along with about 51 Mb FileDisk-file which I guess contains macintosh programs ready to run (I didn't test this, so can't tell you exactly whats in there).

There are also several Shareware programs you can get discounts for. It says in the backside of the CDROM booklet that you can save 100 DM if you register all the discount programs in this CD, cute! There is also several registration forms with price and contact information in the CD booklet. As a whole a definate buy for beginners. If you have been downloading newest Aminet stuff for years this may be less valuable except of those discount shareware programs and the mac programs included. If you are not sure you have everything you need for your program library then buy this.

Contents: (approximately)

BBS-Archive     130 Mb
C               0.6 Mb
Comm             19 Mb
Dev              55 Mb
DiskUtil          6 Mb
Emulate          55 Mb
Fonts            70 Mb
Games            15 Mb
Gfx             134 Mb
Misc            0.4 Mb
Modules          63 Mb
Music            27 Mb
Sound            13 Mb
System            7 Mb
Text             12 Mb  
Util             17 Mb   

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