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Welcome to the 17-Bit Continuation 2 on CD-ROM for Amiga / CD³² / CDTV.
It's the update to the update to the... Anyway, there's all the 1994 disks
on this one. Over 600 disks from 17-Bit's own collection - at least £600
worth of disks in all.
Due to the memory limitations of the CDTV, the CDTVCopier and
17BitCopier.ShortIndex programs have cut-down catalogue files in that there
are no description texts covering previous CDs, only the disk titles.
However, in the CD³² and 17BitCopier.FullIndex versions, the full catalogue
is present. This allows enhanced string searches to be made. If you've
got 2 megs of RAM or more, you can run the big-index copier. If you've got
some weird configuration <like, A570 plus extra RAM or expanded CDTV> and
want to run the big index, hold down the right mouse button as the CD boots
up.
To write out disks from the CD to floppy, make sure the CD-ROM is loaded,
and if over a network (eg ParNet), make sure that the root directory is
assigned as 17bitD: before running the copier. We don't recommend running
the copier over SerNet, however, for speed reasons. If you plan to use the
disks from the earlier CD sets, you will also need 17BitA:, 17BitB: and
17bitC: assigned and available to the machine you are running the copier
on. Take a look at the example copier script 17BitCopier.HDorNet supplied
- you'll need to copy the fonts on this CD into fonts: beforehand.
You have to change CDs before copying out earlier disks, though. Here's a
quick guide to the numbers and their CDs:
1 to 1200 - 17BitA
1201 to 2301 - 17BitB
2302 to 2800
plus Assasins, Amigan ARUG and NZ - 17BitC
2801 to 3351 - 17BitD
You will need a floppy disk drive, disks are only written out to df0:
Please note that although all disks have been tested, some contain bad
language that some viewers may find offensive, and some may not work
on all Amiga configurations. Many disks will only work properly on
PAL (Europe, UK, Australia) systems. If your Amiga system supports
both NTSC and PAL video, try using PAL.
Although we have tried very hard to test all disks in this package for
compatbility, we cannot guarantee every disk will work on your system,
and we cannot offer any telephone or mail support for any of the
public domain disks.
If you have problems running the copier, make sure you disable any
virus checkers, trackdisk monitors or other programs that monitor disk
access, as these can prevent correct copying of disks. It may also be
necessary to kill surplus background tasks and shut redundant windows
to free up more memory to the program.
If you prefer to extract files via the Shell/CLI, or with a directory
utility (eg Directory Opus), then copy to your hard disk DMS111.SFX,
and run it. This will self-extract to give you DMS, which you can use
to decrunch the files on the disc.