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Title: The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends
Post by: Skippy on January 04, 2003, 01:14:44 PM: Because most of the users have a direct access to the Internet an AminetCD which is published each second month makes no sense. The users can get the software in a much faster way from the Aminet.

Update ...
Negociations has started between Urban Muller and an Amiga company to continue the Aminet CD ...

Because of that the team of the Aminet has decided to stop making the CDs. This has not an influence on the Aminet itself which will be kept leading in the same way.

The newest and last Aminet-CD number 52 (December 2002) offers Superview Productivity Suite II written by Andreas Kleinert as the highlight. The CD is already provided. SuperView IV (SViewIV) reads, writes and/or converts more than 50 graphic formats and also integrates external programs like Xpk, Ghostscipt or MetaView.

Additional to the display of graphics on over 20 supported graphic cards (via CyberGraphX, Picasso96 or special driver systems) the program can also edit the different graphic formats.

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Title: Re: The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends
Post by: Kees on January 04, 2003, 12:02:14 PM: Its not over yet ... Negociations has started between Urban Muller and an Amiga company.
Title: Re: The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends
Post by: Skippy on January 04, 2003, 12:04:11 PM: This was inevitable and much the same thing is happening to all those PD Libraries.
Title: Re: The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends
Post by: odin on January 04, 2003, 01:30:26 PM: Huh Holger Kruse? What does he have to do with Amiga related stuff anymore....

And didn't PD libraries die ages ago with the rise of CDROM and internet?
Title: Re: The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends
Post by: T_Bone on January 04, 2003, 01:40:58 PM: I'll burn the aminet cd's for you if you could fire up the MiamiDX registration server again :-D
Title: Re: The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends
Post by: Kees on January 04, 2003, 01:47:32 PM: Quote
Huh Holger Kruse? What does he have to do with Amiga related stuff anymore....

hehehe .. sorry ... my mistake ...

well .. not completely my mistake ... :P
Title: Re: The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends
Post by: odin on January 04, 2003, 01:51:47 PM: Tsk, silly Ajax hooligan :-b
Title: Re: The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends
Post by: Kees on January 04, 2003, 01:53:21 PM: Hehehe ... laat me raden ... Fc Groningen ?
Title: Re: The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends
Post by: odin on January 04, 2003, 01:58:36 PM: Ik woon dan wel 400 meter bij het stadion vandaan...maar nee bedankt.

Voetbal zuigt :-).

For you non-Dutchies: Football sucks. :-b
Title: Re: The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends
Post by: L8-X on January 04, 2003, 02:27:56 PM: Shame, but most people have the net and just d/l what they need as they need it.

Still wouldn`t like to see the aminet go down the tubes! :-(
Title: Re: The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends
Post by: Kees on January 04, 2003, 02:29:59 PM: Aminet will continue as an online serice ... but the aminet CD's might not
Title: Re: The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends
Post by: Calen on January 04, 2003, 03:07:19 PM: Hope they continue on, some nice giveaways with it and not everyone has a fast connection to download all that stuff.
Title: Re: The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends
Post by: jumpship on January 04, 2003, 03:23:10 PM: How about making the AminetCD as an online thing? i.e. put all the files that they were going to put onto the CD into an "AminetCD" drawer and let people download it that way.

Aminet is a great resource but some may find it too big and trying to find good utilities in all of it is a bit hard sometimes. The CD was a good way of giving out the good and usefull programs without having to hunt for them.
Title: Re: The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends
Post by: amigamad on January 04, 2003, 03:33:13 PM: What a shame i love these cd,s and sets i know most people can download the stuff for themselves but its great to have hundreds of games and music mods on a disk for when you get bored. Take a while as well to work out what you would want from such a massive software selection to download.
Title: Re: The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends
Post by: Paul_Gadd on January 04, 2003, 04:05:50 PM: Great cd`s for people without internet access or a very slow connection,

I hope this can be resolved as Aminet is the godfather of Amiga PD and deserves some decent company to back it,

R.I.P
Title: Re: The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends
Post by: L8-X on January 04, 2003, 04:19:15 PM: I think Fred Fish was the grandfather of Amiga PD! :-)
Title: Re: The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends
Post by: JoannaK on January 05, 2003, 09:23:11 AM: I think I still have hundred or so of those early Fish Disks.. :-)
Title: Re: The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends
Post by: AmigaPete on January 05, 2003, 07:36:21 PM: Mmm... Fred Fish :^)

I just pulled out my Aminet CD #1 June 1993 (the inserts say April but the disk itself says June). Wow that's gonna be 10 years old in a few months!! Holy cow, that means I have been using Amigas for over 15 years!!

@jumpship

I think putting the CDs onto the net somewhere (in ISO format) would be great. Even people with dialup know someone with highspeed connection who would be glad to download and burn a copy for them. I don't know if the "extras" would be allowed on the CDs though as they were included as an incentive to buy the thing in the first place. But who knows... our fine little community has some nice people in it still who would not mind donating their long out-of-production software.

Greetings,
Pete
Title: Re: The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends
Post by: PhatAgnus on January 06, 2003, 12:39:35 AM: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the number of 'fresh' files to compile onto an Aminet CD has dropped off significantly, hasn't it?
I regularly search Aminet on a weekly basis just to see what's up & coming. Usually there's a rehash of older postings with not so much as an update to the read me text. How could CDs be produced without it being a duplicate of the last issue?
I'd be more concerned on finding the CDs that are already out there that possibly contain files that Urban had to weed out of the servers to conserve/optimize space. I'm not knocking the Aminet CD series one bit, just believing that it's
become impractical to produce them due to low file submission volumes. If a company out there wants to catch the ball that Urban's passing, they have my greatest appreciation! I'll still visit the Aminet website weekly, though ;) That's MY two cents. Now, If you'll excuse me, I'm off to Aminet...Cheers!