REVIEW: AMINET 10 CD-ROM

by: Pauli Porkka


Aminet 10


The February 1996 issue of Aminet CD ROM Collection. The ease of usage is truly maximized in these CDs. When you open the CD from workbench you will get a window presenting 5 drawers, Filer program, Prefs program, Readme Guide and the main Index guide. Since there is total of 500 MB of NEW stuff (again!) since Aminet 9 it is quite necessary to have good indexing and search tools and those sure have been provided.

There isn't much to say waht hasn't been said about Aminet CD's. They are a must for every Amigoid owning a CD Drive. The focus on this 10th CD is on Fonts and what a focus it is!! Over 1000 different fonts is just about every type of font you could want is available here. You can easily view the fonts through Guide interface. Fonts are divided to screen fonts (fixed, proportional and color fonts), printer fonts (all are included in Adobe and Compugraphic formats and some in bitmap for older OSes).

What makes this CD stand up is that the CD includes special version of TypeSmith 2.5 and a full version of PageStream 2.2. The TypeSmith lack some of the features in the full commercial version but is still highly usable and very excellent tool for creating and modifying fonts. What more could you want from basicly a PD/SW compilation than commercial programs in it?!.

Contents

Directory Size Files Contents biz 25 MB 45 Business Software comm 54 MB 268 Communications demo 25 MB 29 Graphics and Sound demos dev 27 MB 97 Development Software disk 5 MB 33 Disk & HD Tools docs 12 MB 56 Documents game 111 MB 123 Games gfx 52 MB 93 Graphics Software hard 1 MB 23 Hardware Related misc 18 MB 61 Misc mods 228 MB 710 Music Modules mus 5 MB 27 Music Software pix 54 MB 108 Pictures text 10 MB 37 Text Software util 43 MB 281 Utilities

Summary

500 Megabytes of new stuff since the last release and special focus on fonts (over 1000 of them) says it all. Special version of TypeSmith 2.5 and Full version of PageStream 2.2.

Publisher

Schatztruhe
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