REVIEW: System Booster CD-ROM

by: Pauli Porkka

Information in this page updated: 26 Oct 96


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Basically the System Booster is just an PD/SW collection. There is no commercial software included. Then what makes this different from Aminet CD's you might ask? Well, there is no pictures, modules or any other of that 'fill-up-this-cd' - stuff in it. Also the CD has been divided quite differently from Aminet CD's. The programs in this CD have been categorized and all the programs of the same type have been located in the same directory with the others. In this sense this CD reminds me a lot of the WB Add-On CD reviewed early this year although there is no Audio or Graphical applications provided, as the name implies programs in this System Booster are 'system' programs. Most of the programs are ready to run/install from the CD, so no de-archiving is needed. There is also a Archive directory which contains over 100 archives of variety of different programs. Why these programs weren't handled like the other programs didn't clear up to me, maybe the compilers just ran out of time?

Nice feature in the CD is the possibility to read all the documentations/manuals from the single 'Contents' guide file. This is a very good way to make a quick glance to available programs without starting to browse through the directories. There is also extraction script for the archived programs provided in the same Contents guide file, although I couldn't get it to work (seemed like it tried to unpack LHA archived files with LZX..) well fortunately there is directory management programs provided in the CD so you might as well use one of them if you don't have one already.

To sum it up I think that promises in the back side of the CD about 'This CD will give your system the performance you have always dreamed of' is a bit exaggerated but it is a very good compilation of older and new programs in the same CD so you don't have to browse through a bunch of CD's to find a program for a particular use. For those programs which are still in development you will most likely find newer versions from Aminet. If you need cache, backup, mouse tools or commodities then check this out.

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