What's on AACD25?

The Magazine

This section of the Amiga Active CD contains support material for the magazine's articles, including:

  • Demos of software
  • Update files
  • Copies of suppliers' websites.
  • Bonus articles and exclusive features that you won't see in print.

...and other material we couldn't fit in the magazine.

The CD

The majority of the CD contents are contained in the AACD drawer, split into a number of sub drawers

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Magazine Demos Games Graphics Hardware Online Programming WebSites Sound System Updates Utilities def The Amiga Active selection of websites has been carefully chosen to complement the content of the magazine. If there's a certain product reviewed in Amiga Active's pages, chances are any information we could find on the web relating to that product has been included in our extensive websites section.

This section also contains recent postings to many Amiga-related mailing lists. These are Internet discussion groups each one covering a particular topic. We have mailing lists covering particular applications, individual programming languages and the general chatter about the magazine from our own mailing list.

We've also included plenty of Amiga specific and general interest sites. You can save yourself a small fortune in phone bills by browsing the local copies of all your favourite websites, straight from the Amiga Active CD!

Highlights

Here are a few highlights of this Amiga Active CD. This is only to get you started, the whole CD is packed with useful and entertaining material. These highlights contain a few pointers, but half the fun is in exploring the CD yourself.

Using the CD

As far as possible, software has been set up to run from the CD, but there are some things you need to do first. Most of this is taken care of when you click on the Welcome icon. This sets up any assigns that are needed by programs on the CD.

Warning! If you do not do this, some programs with fail with a "Please insert volume <whatever>XYZ" requester. Worse, others may simply fail to work or even crash. You have been warned!

You can quickly jump to any section of the Amiga Active CD using the buttons on the left of the screen. The large AA button in the top left corner will always return you to the Welcome page.

Icon The first time you run the Welcome script, it will also copy a couple of small files to your hard drive, if they are not already present, it will not overwrite or delete anything. These files are essential to the operation of some aspects of the CD, and also mean you can use software from the CD after you have copied it to your hard drive. These files will only be written once, and will not interfere with any other software you have, if you want to know exactly what the script does, here is a commented version.

The SearchCD icon lets you search for any file, either on the Amiga Active CD, the Aminet CDs or the main Aminet Index. You can run this from any of these pages or from its icon on the Workbench. You may also search the current CD simply by typing the search item into the string gadget at the top of the browser window. Icon

Icon You can change your CD settings at any time, allowing you to use whichever program you prefer to view graphics, play mods or deal with many other types of file.

These pages make extensive use of AWeb's ability to run programs from the CD via clickable links.

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