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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Edpon on October 08, 2005, 05:48:38 PM
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Silly question, what is Aminet exactly? Free fully usable programs that originally appeared years ago on floppies or something else?
Thanks
Ed
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Yes, basically. It's an archive of public domain and shareware software available for download. There is another called the "Fred Fish Collection" which is a series of disks (numbered). There are more than 1000 disks full of software available. Back in the day we would go to any amiga store and get copies of any fred fish disk for free if we just bought disks from them.
There is a fred fish database which lets you search for programs and tells you which disks they are on.
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No its just a software archive where authors and others can upload Amiga software much like download.com etc is for PCs.
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Cool, so my next question would be, is it worth getting? Also, is there any differences between ones sold here in the USA or the ones in the UK? I.E. - Pal or NTSC? Thanks.
Ed
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@Edpon
You don't have to "Get it" as in buying a CD or so..........although there are Aminet CD's available with thousands of softwares...............all you have to do is Download them at the AMinet Website :-) thats where the CD's came from. if your Amiga is not connected to the internet.....download them pn your PC and burn them to CD and transfer to your AMiga :-)
or format a 720kb floppy on the PC and download to that.then use Cross DOS on AMiga to read the floppies.
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On the left hand side of every page here there's a "Main Menu" heading (just below your account options). Under here there's a link "Amiga Files (Aminet)".
Click, browse, download what you find interesting.
:-)
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Judging by the question about PAL and NTSC, I think Epdon was actually asking whether an Amiga is worth getting, not Aminet. The question was a little ambiguous though :)
To answer your second question Epdom, yes the UK Amigas would be PAL and the US ones would be NTSC. You would need to make sure your screen was capable of displaying whichever video standard you choose.
Only you can answer the question of whether it's worth getting an Amiga. What do you intend to use it for?
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MarkAshley wrote:
Judging by the question about PAL and NTSC, I think Epdon was actually asking whether an Amiga is worth getting, not Aminet. The question was a little ambiguous though :)
To answer your second question Epdom, yes the UK Amigas would be PAL and the US ones would be NTSC. You would need to make sure your screen was capable of displaying whichever video standard you choose.
Only you can answer the question of whether it's worth getting an Amiga. What do you intend to use it for?
No, I was specifically asking about Aminet; if it comes in different flavors, NTSC and/or Pal. I ask that, because some people were selling them from the UK and Australia, on E-Bay and I was worried that the Pal ( If they exist ) Aminet CD's would be more trouble than they're worth. As to weither or not Amiga's are worth getting, ANY self respecting Amigan would say YES to that question. I have 4, but have been so out of touch with them, ( I only recently just got them all ) that I ask a lot of seemingly simple and sometimes stupid questions about them; so please bear with me. Thanks all.
Ed
:-D
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@edpon:
No, I was specifically asking about Aminet; if it comes in different flavors, NTSC and/or Pal.
The term "Aminet" is usually used to refer to the software archive in general (i.e. the web and ftp servers). If you're talking about the CDs, refer to them as "Aminet CDs", might be less confusing ;-)
I ask that, because some people were selling them from the UK and Australia, on E-Bay and I was worried that the Pal ( If they exist ) Aminet CD's would be more trouble than they're worth.
Aminet CDs are simply a sort of backup of aminet.net (http://www.aminet.net). The CD in general is not restricted to PAL or NTSC, but the software distributed on it may be. 95% of the software available on Aminet runs perfectly fine on both PAL and NTSC though.
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@epdon
No disrespect intended - I didn't know you were already an Amiga user. Your question lead me to think you were asking whether Amigas are worth getting. We all know the answer to that :-)
Just to reiterate what cgutjahr said, the Aminet CDs themselves will work just fine on a PAL or NTSC Amiga, but if any of the software on it is specifically written for one video standard or the other you may have a problem with that specific piece of software.
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MarkAshley wrote:
@epdon
No disrespect intended - I didn't know you were already an Amiga user. Your question lead me to think you were asking whether Amigas are worth getting. We all know the answer to that :-)
Just to reiterate what cgutjahr said, the Aminet CDs themselves will work just fine on a PAL or NTSC Amiga, but if any of the software on it is specifically written for one video standard or the other you may have a problem with that specific piece of software.
@MarkAshley
No problem dude, I have been out of the Amiga scene for quite awhile, since the 1st initial release of the, at the time, A4000, when I was stationed in England in the '90's.
@leirbag28
I tried to look up Aminet on the web, Google returned a bunch of "Official looking" Aminet sites. I've tried most of them and they seem legitimate; which is the Official one? Also, does Amiga Forever support .lha files?
@anyone who knows the answer to this. . . .
Does the transfer of files from the Aminet CD's or website, allow you to play the games, utilities or any other file you download to your Amiga as if it were the original fully licensed product? Thanks
ed
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Most of those are probably mirror sites. To help keep one site from getting too much traffic.
http://www.aminet.net/ is the main site.
by Edpon on 2005/10/9 21:41:44
"I tried to look up Aminet on the web, Google returned a bunch of "Official looking" Aminet sites. I've tried most of them and they seem legitimate; which is the Official one? Also, does Amiga Forever support .lha files? "
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Does the transfer of files from the Aminet CD's or website, allow you to play the games, utilities or any other file you download to your Amiga as if it were the original fully licensed product? Thanks
It depends. Most files are freeware but there are also demo versions of shareware or commercial products. Each file has a readme you can read before downloading. It should state if it is a full version or if you have to pay for it. And it should also list the requirements.
Bye,
Thomas
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The files for the site are .lha, is that something that has to been run on an actual Amiga computer, or does it go with some emulation software? Also, on the Aminet website, I've spent a decent amount of time downloading files, which is fine, but would love to know if there's a way to mass download. Any hints would be greatly appreciated.
Ed
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The .lha files used by Amiga are slightly different file format than the .lha format used by WinRAR so you should unlha the files from the Amiga side of things. If you are using WinUAE or EUAE then it would help to mount the download directory of the host operating system and lha them from inside the emulator. BTW .lha files are archives similar to .zip files but with better compression.
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here (http://main.aminet.net/util/arc/LhA_e138.run) is a link to an old version of the LHA archiver. It's in a self-extracting archive for Amiga.
Once you have extracted the archive move the LHa executable somewhere in your path then to unpack software type:
LHa x sourcefile.lha dest:path/
and be sure to remember the trailing slash on the destination path.
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@Edpon
Aminet is not a video distribution or TV / movie related site and therfor doesn't have PAL or NTSC formats. PAL / NTSC is a set of standrads for brodcasting pictures over the airways. In Europe the PAL system is widly used for TV however it has nothing to do with AMINET.
AMINET is an internet database where people upload their programs for distribution to others.
If you by a CD, all that has happened is that someone has copied some of these files from this database to a CD for you. It is a data CD and thefore has nothing to do with PAL or NTSC or any other video standard. Think of it like buying norton anti virus or somehting like that. That CD would have nothing to do with PAL or NTSC either, it just contains the program.
AMINET is the sam, it just contains programs for you to use on your AMIGA.
Your CD collection does not contain all the files available on AMINET either. AMINET get's new files daily, so unless someone is sending you daily updates on CDs, you won't have "everyhting" so to speak.
An example. Let's say you wanted a program to read documents for you. You would log on to AMINET and search for a document program, you could then download that program and use it on your AMIGA.
Don't get confused here but AMINET is only for AMIGA / type computers. You won't find many windows programs there.
If you want to find out more, follow the link off this site and have a look for yourself. It will probably help explain all of this for you
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Hi all,
Here's a new question for this topic;
Which Aminet Set, 4-12 and Aminet Games, is most worth while getting? ( For games and Workbench utilities, graphics )
I've been reading the descriptions on Softhut's Site, but some are lacking anything at all, while others make it sound like they have everything from the previous set included in the current one viewed; i.e. - Set 7, has all of 6 plus 600 MB added. Thanks all.
Ed
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I bought Aminet Set 6 because it came bundled with MED Soundstudio 1.03. Other than that you're better off with the online version since it contains all of the files. (And I mean even with dialup!)