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Collections of Workbench utilities, icons, add-ons and other sundries appear to have dried up recently, with only the Aminet CDs now offering a vast collection of well-arranged public domain software.
Enter APC&TCP with "Digital Make-Up", a silver platter crammed full of Amiga OS goodies. Requirements are a 68020 with hard disk, CD-ROM and OS 2.05, but if you're the owner of the recommended system (an '040 with PPC, 4MB Fast RAM, graphics card, sound card and OS 3.5), you may not find much that is new on this disc.
Plenty of tools and add-ons for your Workbench are supported by a run-of-the mill selection of icons, boot pictures, backdrops and patterns to brighten up your desktop. Hardware-related utilities for scanners, printers, digital cameras and various I/O cards take up 30MB on this CD, tools 147MB and add-ons 44MB.
With sounds and graphics taking up 55 and 162MB respectively, there's a fairly equal split between potentially useful and purely aesthetic content. Games only fill a corner, taking up less than 5MB (although it was good to see Piper again, one of my favourite Workbench time-wasters from yesteryear) so you'll have to look elsewhere for entertainment value.
Not as well organised or presented as the Aminet CDs (there's no front end, so you'll have to search through the CD by hand), but a fair collection of utilities and visual Workbench enhancements nonetheless.
Originally reviewed in issue 11
by David Stroud.
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