REVIEW: AMINET 9 CD-ROM

by: Pauli Porkka


Review: Aminet 9 by Jason Compton

Aminet 9


The December 1995 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 since Aminet 8 it is quite necessary to have good indexing and search tools and those sure have been provided.

The basis of finding anything from this CD are the Guide files. From the Index guide you can view everything on CD sorted by directories (the same tree as in Aminet itself). From the readme guide file you can find index lists of 'very new stuff (290MB)', 'games (340 MB)', 'top downloads (200MB)' and 'commercial games (5 MB)'. There is also special guides for Mods, Demos and Pictures. Mods are ALL RATED (0 to 9) and sorted by style! Demos are sorted by 'Best Demos', 'Good Demos', 'Compatible demos' (remaining demos that work with A4000/40, the best and the good ones already work with A4000/040 without problems) and 'Other demos' that cannot be run directly from the CD. Pictures can be viewed from thumbnails or directly from their respective directories like pix/anim, pix/real3 and so on.

And hey! you can even view what files are found in the newest Fred Fish CD ROM...Totally Amazing. Very handy if you happened to own both of them.

As you can see from the following contents listing, the theme in this CD ROM is Games, even 5 commercial games from 'Gamers Delight 2' - CD ROM are provided for you.

Contents

Directory Size Files Contents biz 19 MB 48 Business Software comm 36 MB 211 Communications demo 84 MB 86 Graphics and Sound demos dev 23 MB 86 Development Software disk 3 MB 24 Disk & HD Tools docs 129 MB 311 Documents game 327 MB 930 Games gfx 34 MB 81 Graphics Software hard 1 MB 10 Hardware Related misc 46 MB 75 Misc mods 156 MB 645 Music Modules mus 9 MB 32 Music Software pix 106 MB 141 Pictures text 10 MB 42 Text Software util 28 MB 222 Utilities

Summary

500 Megabytes of new stuff since the last release and special focus on games (nearly 1000 of them) says it all. I could spent weeks just browsing this CD and finding new stuff from there. I mean I have been getting aminet recent files for 2 years now but it never totally hit me how much there really was. And this is since Aminet 8 which I barely had time to take a peek at....

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