REVIEW: AMINET 14 CD-ROM

by: Pauli Porkka


Aminet 14


It's Aminet CD...that just about tells it all. For those who are not familiar with Aminet CD's lets take a small round-up.

Aminet CD collection is a bi-monthly publication which includes all the new stuff (programs, pictures, modules and whatever) which has been uploaded to Aminet ftp sites (large collection of FTP servers around the globe which mirror eachother) during the last two months. All in all teh Aminet now holds about 9.000 floppy disks worth of data. During a two month period it is usual to achieve about 600 - 800 MBs (uncompressed) worth of data to be included to these compilation CDs. After every 4 CDs there will be a Aminet Set which has now gone to number 3 (contained the Aminet CDs from 8 to 12). To fill up every Aminet CD there is usually some sort of focus on CD (See the Aminet Suummary for more info about this), data type area where the fill-up data will be taken. Sometimes this focus is on pictures, animations, modules or some other data which can be found from Aminet. Usually there is also enhanced amount of programs dealing with the selected data where the CD is focused on. This Aminet CD 14 is focused on business software and lots of demos of commercial programs and PD/SW programs have been included, literally hundreds of them.

The best part is still to come. Not only you get all these PD/SW/Data packages but you also get one or more Commercial program(s) to enjoy about. On this particular CD 14 it is the TurboCalc 2.1 spreadsheet program. There is also newer version of this program available in your local Amiga dealer but for understandable reasons the version provided in the Aminet CD is not the latest. Actually I started using the TC 2.1 for calculating the Aminet Suummary data which started getting to a bit big to be handled with just a calculator program. I have no complaints about the program, I have had the TC2.1 CD from since it appeared but I never actually used it (I didn't need it) but now that I have made myself acquainted with it I can say that the program does not loose to Excel (from the PC world) that much. Ofcourse it is not asa bloated with features but it does everything what the ordinary user needs it for. This itself would be reason enough to buy the Aminet CD 14.

As always Get it ASAP!

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