The end of an era - AminetCD-serie ends

[Paul_Gadd]

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

[L8-X]

I think Fred Fish was the grandfather of Amiga PD! :-)

[JoannaK]

I think I still have hundred or so of those early Fish Disks..  :-)

[AmigaPete]

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

[PhatAgnus]

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!