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The world's largest collection of freely-distributable Amiga software has now reached its thirty fifth CD. Uncompressed, the software on Aminet 35 totals nearly a gigabyte, with 780MB of new software added since Aminet 34, 20MB of Amiga news courtesy of www.amiga-news.de and 20MB of commercial software in the form of Digital Almanac II Special Edition.
Aminet CDs are more than just a collection of files burnt to disc. Amigaguide files group the software by directory, or you can search the CD with ease thanks to a simple "Find" utility which outputs its results in Amigaguide format with "click to run" buttons.
Software is grouped into categories - demos, for example, are split into those that exit and those that don't, saving the frustration of trying a piece of software only to find you need a reboot to get back to Workbench.
Aminet 35's commercial offering - a special, non-upgradeable version of stargazing software Digital Almanac II - boasts more features than the shareware version but uses a more limited set of data. It has full printer and disk I/O support, saves configurations, displays the whole sky, and calculates solar and lunar eclipses. Restrictions are imposed, however, including only up to 10 frames of IFF animation and no ARexx port.
Aminet CDs remain a valuable resource for the shareware enthusiast, especially those whose Amigas aren't connected to the 'net. The CDs win hands down in user-friendliness compared to the online version of Aminet, with simple but effective touches which let you browse a gigabyte of files with point-and-click ease.
If you haven't yet experienced Aminet CDs, now's a good time to start.
Originally reviewed in issue 8
by David Stroud.
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