This is a list of Amiga CD-ROMs, although many of them contain data (eg: pictures, text or music) that can be used on any computer. I'm listing the ones I have to start with and will then list titles of all the hundreds of others. Cheers!
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Amiga Format Disc 24 Doom Fever! aka AFCD24 AF/108/3/98 March 1998 Along with the Aminet CDs and the CDs from the competing magazine CU-Amiga, the Amiga Format CD-ROMs are yet another of the reasons why it's so great to have an Amiga. Featured this month are six versions of Doom and lots of WAD files; the latest version of AmiCDFS; the four best Amiga virus killers; UAE (Universal Amiga Emulator) for various platforms including Windows; the latest Superview libraries; datatypes; some great Worms levels; Powder, a shoot-em-up; a demo of the platform game Kangy; some superb artwork in the Gallery from Pedro Gordinho, Kornel Drzewinski, and Trevor Taylor's renderings plus his Lightwave and Real3D objects; "Ben Speaks", our compiler's introduction to the CD, is now in HTML format and also leads into 197 Mb of websites on the CD-ROM for off-line browsing. There are indices to all AFCDs (15 Mb). This disk also has over 180 Mb of reader contributions - animations, music, pictures, utilities, games - and that's new stuff since the last CD, something unheard of in the Windoze world: they fiddle while heroes burn CD-ROMs. (sorry) It's a measure of the great strength of the Amiga community and the efficiency of our OS and hardware that we can produce all this high-quality software and send it to a mag every month! O.K., off the soapbox.
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Amiga Format Disc 25 UFO: Enemy Unknown aka AFCD25 AF/109/4/98 April 1998 "Ben Speaks", that big cuddly icon that leads into so much of the contents of the CD, suddenly doesn't work this month, due to the default preferences being changed! As the usual drawer has disappeared, it is a matter of changing the path in the AFCDPrefs window that pops up. An understandable oversight, because on the Amiga it is possible to assign a virtual directory name to any path and if you don't reboot for a couple of weeks then these assignments can hang around. This month the AFCD has been reorganized and they are seeking feedback on it, so here it is! I Still don't like the long directory names, which makes it difficult to access files with MS-DOS or OS/2. Files are not copied to the CD with the clone option, so dates are changed - this may seem petty, but it is a good check that filesize/date are the same if you are trawling for new versions. In the Flantastic! drawer is a nice little 4.8 Mb mpeg movie of Bill Gates getting flanned with cream pies - watched that a few times! Heh he he ho ho, lovely. Featured this month is the game UFO: Enemy Unknown and it occupies 12 Mb of the CD. Have to admit I spent more time playing the addictive AQuix (111K) in the -ScreenPlay- directory! Accompanying the 18th and final part of Simon Goodwin's excellent series on Emulation are 36 directories of emulation software covering platforms from Tamigotchi, Nintendo SNES, Z80, Macs to PCs and GameBoys. 26Mb of the stuff! Other highlights are a demo version of WordWorth 7 (fully functional apart from permanent headers and footers and no spell checker) so you can compare it with MS Word and see which you prefer ha ha; AmIRC 2, possibly the best IRC client on any platform; MultiCX 2.80; AnimatED 1.5 for adding events and sounds to animations, with its own movie playback facility; the long-awaited game Blitz Bombers which looks like a multi-player Boulder Dash; samples from EMC's range of CD-ROMs; F1 Software catalogue and demos such as Grafix art tutor by Silly Software and Game of the Month; datatypes; Doom ports; Picture Manager Pro demo; 3D Objects by David Charnow; Typeface, a bitmap font editor; the usual utilities password- protected for subscribers; and Python 1.4, an interpreted interactive object-oriented extendable programming language also available on Unix, Mac and PC. Also on the CD is 222 Mb of Websites, some of which need refreshing to better reflect their online counterparts (especially Squid before he is silenced by the Scientologists), after all, the CD is on the streets only a month after it is compiled! I do understand, though, that sometimes internal web anchors need to be amended to work offline. The sites are: 5D Software; Asimware; DrawStudio; EMComputergraphic; Haage & Partner; MakeCD; Nova Design; OctaMED; Picasso96; Phoenix DP; SASG; The Lair!; VillageTronic; WeirdScience; YAM; AmiDoom; Amiga Doom; AmigaFlame; Amiga Nutta; clickBOOM; F1 GP; Nixon's homepage; Q5 Graphics (4 MB of David Charnow's excellent artwork); Hardware Book; Hidden Truth; Squid's Amiga Rumour Mill; AmigaSoc. This disk also has over 20 Mb of reader contributions, including some great artwork by James Mellers and some AREXX scripts for PPaint, YAM and IBrowse by Sören Forsberg.
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| Amiga Format Disc 26 PPaint 7 aka AFCD26 AF/110/5/98 May 1998 PPaint 7.0 is the highlight of this CD, a 15 Mb paint package. Included is the Bullion AnimFont that can be used with PPaint 7.1. Mystic Web sites: 181 Mb this month, including Haage & Partner's FTP directories for Art Effect, ClassX, Fusion, SoftLogik, STFax, Storm C, Tornado3D and WarpUp: 11 Mb.
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Aminet 21 aka Aminet CD 21 - October 1997 980 Mb (when uncompressed) of the new uploads to the Aminet since the last CD, with 217 Mb of pictures, 275 Mb of MODs, 124 Mb of games, 30 Mb of comms software etc. in .LHA archives. Commercial software: Personal Paint (PPaint) 6.4. Highlights include SAS/C 6.58; 1.3 Mb of CDDA IDs; WebDesign 1.6e; GhostScript 4.03; Euterpe multimedia sequencer with MIDI, CAMD and AHI; AsyncIO.library 39.1; Cool-NES-emulator and A/NES; Digital Almanac 39.1, an 8 Mb astronomical program which contains the complete SAO-, NGC- and Messier catalogues; ViNCEd full-screen shell editor (CON: replacement).
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Aminet 22 aka Aminet CD 22 - December 1997 930 Mb (when uncompressed) of the new uploads to the Aminet since the last CD, with 225 Mb of pictures, 174 Mb of MODs, 144 Mb of games, 37 Mb of comms software etc. in .LHA archives. Commercial software: Wordworth 5.0, the great DTP program, is included. Highlights include the PowerPC and Amiga version of Wildfire demo version 4.41; Thor 2.5 news reader; the source of DICE 3.15 (C); Amiga E 3.3a, "What's Hot on the Amiga" which uncompresses to about 3.8 Mb of HTML; DeTar 1.3 etc, etc.
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Aminet 23 aka Aminet CD 23 - February 1998 Over 1 gigabyte (when uncompressed) of the latest uploads to the Aminet with 228 Mb of pictures, 158 Mb of MODs, 32 Mb of comms software etc... Absolutely fabulous! Highlights include VBCC, a free portable and retargetable optimizing ANSI C compiler for 680n0 or PowerPC (1.7 Mb), and five issues of "What's Hot on the Amiga" which uncompress to about 12 Mb of HTML. AmigaWorld v5.19 is a database of 258 countries. Commercial software: the full version of TurboCalc v3.5.
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Aminet 24 aka Aminet CD 24 - April 1998 Nearly 1 gigabyte (when uncompressed) of the latest uploads to the Aminet with 190 Mb of pictures, 203 Mb of MODs, 99 Mb of demos, 37 Mb of comms software etc... Splendiferous as usual! Recommendations include the PPC library developer archive (1.5M); Secure Shell 1.2.22 (with ssh and scp) for logging in and copying files over TCP/IP to other people's systems; FlashMandel (yes another Mandelbrot program but this is gorgeous! - it understands RTG so it should work with most graphics boards); AVId movie player; MPEG system, audio and video datatypes; VBCC 0.6a; the Scoopex 5977 demo contains some superbly drawn artwork. Commercial software: a special version of IBrowse 1.2.
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Aminet Set 5 June 1997 Four gigabytes (when uncompressed) from Aminet CDs 17-20 with older versions removed and files added that there was no room for on the original CDs. Similar files are all on the same CD: ie disc b has the gfx/ and pix/ directories. 941 Mb of pictures and animations, 813 Mb of demos, 801 Mb of MODs, 273 Mb of games (that's 613 games), 151 Mb of graphics software, 115 Mb of development software, etc. As usual with AmiNet, the indexing by Urban Muller is brilliant. There are searching facilities, and files can be accessed with the appropriate application from within AmigaGuide. Most files have an explanatory text which can be viewed before the archive is unpacked. The AmiNet download charts are included so you can see which file is most popular. The MODs, for instance have their own indexes. They are sorted by category (pop, rock, funk, chip, demo, slow, synth, techno, trance, jungle and hardcore) and also by quality and by author. Highlights include OptyCD Player 2.0 plus full database; Louise's Modem Guide, the world's largest modem helpfile; MUI 3.8; thousands of other titles. Commercial software: OctaMED SoundStudio 1.03c music editing program; CanDo 2.5 graphical application development system; AmiAtlas 1.3 route planner (German).
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CU-Amiga Super CD-ROM 20 Doom Special, March 1998 A month is not long enough to evaluate the contents of these magazine CD-ROMs, before the next one comes along! This month Doom and nearly 80 WAD files; the complete Cartoon Studio; AnimatED; Aweb II 3.1 with some JavaScript and enhanced HTML 4.0; NetPBM image manipulation and conversion; Phone Wizard; version 2 of Burn It to make your own CD-ROMs; 71 Mb of anims; 55 Mb of demos; Worms levels and samples; card games; Amiga Forever update patch; EasyHTML; PowerPC tools; online archives from the CU, AMOS and Blitz mailing lists, Usenet, and Fido; BBS utilities; DigiBoosterPRO tracker program; MODs and players; two new virus checkers; Micro$oft Word file converter; web sites.
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CU-Amiga Super CD-ROM 21 ShapeShifter, April 1998 This month the Macintosh-II shareware emulator ShapeShifter 3.8 is featured: including a full installation of the Mac OS System 7.0.1 and some Mac software there is 112 Mb in the ShapeShifter drawer. This emulator needs a copy of the ROM image from your Mac, and can run any 32 bit clean program. Also WebTV for monitoring remote web cameras; the latest MakeCD; FlashMandel; Xopa; SysSpeed; RTGMaster; AMiPEG; information on Amiga datatypes, libraries, classes and devices; 45 Mb of demos; 50 Mb of readers submissions including a CDXL video of a A1200 into a EZ tower and a groovy 1-4 player Battle Othello; Symphonie Player Pro demo; MPEGA; online archives from the CU and Fido mailing lists and Amiga newsgroups; ARexxWebServer 1.1; 40 Mb of web sites; etc.
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CU-Amiga Super CD-ROM 22 SBase4Pro, May 1998 What a great cover this month! Design! Typography! No, I mean it! This month the old workhorse SuperBase 4 Professional is featured. This is a fully relational database I have used since 1991: it comes with a forms designer and the DML language but as it is given away with a magazine you don't get the two big ring-bound manuals. This is version 1.30n from 1994 when Oxxi were developing it, but now Mr. Hardware have bought the program and have two programmers working on it. 97 Mb of PowerPC (the new Amiga processor) software is collected on this CD, including QBist which generates random abstract images, and a demo of the amazing Elastic Dreams which also works well on a 68000 series processor. Elastic Dreams is like the Mac warping tool, Kai's Power Goo, which can smear, move and wipe images or blend parts of two images together. It's amazing to see these effects in real time. Also a POP3 module for Dopus; Miami 3; Samplitude and TapeDeck for the Prelude and other audio hardware; SoundFX (SFX) 3.61 unregistered version; ABackup; a demo of Digital Almanac (17 Mb), MasterISO and MakeCD; three collections of game cheats; QDOS the Sinclair QL emulator; C tutorial files; 43 Mb of interactive fiction (what I used to call text adventure games); 45 Mb of demos; 24 Mb of web sites... I found version 39.2 of asyncio.library on this CD that I installed in my Libs: for better or worse... Graphics stuff includes many 3D objects; a new version of RayStorm; and a scanner driver for Artec scanners. Games: QuakePlayer plays Quake all by itself, and should play most unregistered .dem and .pak files. My goodness, only a couple of months since we got Doom on the Amiga and now here comes Quake! And there's ADescent 0.3 (but no .pig or .hog files) and a patch for another version of Descent.
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da capo aka Danny Amor's da capo, Volume 1 - Music, Modules and More
1400 tracker modules (MODs) sorted by composer and over 2000 samples
sorted by type (drums, effects, guitar, loop, speech and synth)
in five different formats: AIFF, AU, IFF, VOC and WAV. Many music
programs (Amiga only) including OctaMED 4.0, all ready-to-run
from CD. Audio track by Gabriel Seher.
Available from Amiga Library Services or Fred Fish. |
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Deluxe Paint V aka DPaint 5.0, Electronic Arts. The old paint and animation workhorse, still standard equipment in many applications, returns in a CD-ROM version for 1998. (There is also a floppy disk version with printed manual.) Apart from DPaint, there is an anim player called DPlayer. Amongst over 40 new features/enhancements are: "24-Bit RGB Support in any screen mode; Arexx Support: Full Arexx command set, recordable macros; Natural Media: Textured backgrounds and media libraries for painterly and illustrative looking drawing and animation; Camera Moves: Automatic Camera Pan/Zoom animation creation; New Airbrush: Soft edge Airbrush; Multiple Palette support for animations; Variable frame rate: Frame rate or pause on a per frame basis; Move Requester Enhancements: Key Frames, Key Fades; Gradient Translucency/Fade on a per color or range basis; LightTable Enhancements: multi levels of dim, user defineable". Must be one of the emptiest CDs ever made! Problems: The installation fails if both foreign language catalogs are selected, and DPaint only seems to like AGA screens, not Picasso96. But! still the paint program with the most intuitive and easiest interface ever.
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FantaSeas aka FantaSeas Portfolio Photo CD Double CD-ROM set containing 292 professionally photographed images of fish, anemones, sponges, coral, reefs, wrecks and so on in PhotoCD Image Pac format. So not much variety, but depending on your system you can see the images at up to 3072 x 2048 resolution. As each file is 4 or 5 megabytes in size, you will need a medium-spec Amiga and a copy of SuperView, Photogenics or PPaint to see or manipulate the pictures. Viewers are included for Macintosh and Windows.
Available from Amiga Library Services or Fred Fish. |
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Fresh Fish 7 aka Fresh Fish Volume 7, Nov-Dec 1994 A simple list of filenames is 1.4 megabytes. Another astonishing collection of LHA archives and ready-to-run (no need to copy to the hard drive first) "Fresh" software. Ranging from tools for programmers and power users to 3D animated jugglers, this disk is the fruit of the legendary Fred Fish's labours in bringing shareware and public domain software to the Amiga community since 1985. 182 Mb of archives, 175 Mb of GNU material; 95 Mb of ready-to-run new stuff; 80 Mb of miscellaneous tools; 64 Mb of GNU binaries; libraries, etc; 26 Mb of Descriptions of contents of previous CD-ROMs and all 1000 floppy disks, etc, etc.
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FrozenFish The main contents of this CD are all 1100 Fish disks in LHA archives, totalling 451 Mb. Also 102 Mb of animations and graphics utilities; 74 Mb of pictures and 16 Mb of games from FreshFish Volume 9. A superb compilation, the only complaint being that there is no overall index or AmigaGuide, so extracting every archive is a manual process.
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Gateway! Volumen 1 aka Gateway! - The Plains Of Passage NetBSD 1.0 (UNIX type OS) with installation notes. This release is from 1995. 200 Mb preinstalled software including 50 Mb X11R6 archive ready-to-use, 50 Mb binaries and texts and 95 Mb sources. 50 Mb NetBSD-current source and tar-balls archive, the BETA Archive of NetBSD 1.1. FTP and Internet archive including 330 Mb original archives of often-used tools; 60 Mb full of X11 archives; 70 Mb texts about networking, et cetera. Perl, Emacs and TeX. 60 Mb of AmigaDOS network-related software. FAQs for NetBSD, Amiga X window and general networking in HTML format with AMosaic 1.2. Phew! Pretty old stuff now, but sheer heaven for anyone into networking and programming. NetBSD runs separately to the Amiga OS and needs a CPU with on-board MMU, 4 disk partitions and several megabytes of contiguous RAM.
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Geek Gadgets Version 2 aka Amiga Developers Environment The ADE is a collection of Amiga ports of popular tools from the Free Software Foundation, BSD and elsewhere. Every so often, a snapshot of the ADE is taken from ninemoons.com and published as a Geek Gadgets CD. The ADE includes advanced C; C++; Fortran and ADA compilers; assembler; linker; EMACS editor; make; rcs and cvs source code control systems; text and file utilities; GNU debugger; groff and TeX. Beta version of X Window System X11R6.1. Most of the software can be run straight from the CD, without the need to install. Also included is the developer version of p.OS, a new operating system.
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GoldFish Volume 3 Compilation of software, animations and fantastic pictures from FreshFish CDs from 1995, all unarchived and ready-to-run directly from the CD, immediately accessible via Workbench or AmigaGuide. This is the disk to stick in the drive when you want to show someone a few examples of the kind of artwork the Amiga can make.
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The Light Works aka The Light Works - Digital Imagery Amazing rendered images, animations and textures by Tobias J. Richter, with object data in Imagine, Reflections and Maxon Cinema 4D formats. Also public domain objects, pictures by other artists, animations and drawn and rendered textures. Most of Tobias's pictures have a sci-fi theme and are here in 8 and 24 bit versions. Stunning.
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.net 42 aka .net CD 42 "A Nightmare on Net Street" NET/42/03/98 Why do I buy .net magazine? There's less about the net in there than there used to be. I'll tell you: they find good links and I got a free Java book with my subscription. Cotton Ward's articles are good. And why buy the CD edition? They don't have Amiga software on here any more: yes, I would have to run a PC or Mac emulator and buy their OS to get any benefit. Maybe one day I think I might have to. Not even any HTML on this CD apart from links to sites on the net. Useless.
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.net 44 aka .net CD 44 "10,000 Web Graphics" NET/44/SP/98/B Just about 10,000 images (7009 jpegs, 2925 gifs, 69 AVIs and 2 MOVs) and some Quake files. The Quake files are supplied as self-extracting archives, which do not run on non-MSDOS machines, but I was able to use UnZip to get the .PAK files for use on the Amiga.
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Online Library aka Danny Amor's Online Library, Volume One Texts: over 200 books, thousands of FAQs and Internet RFCs, thousands of categorized texts. You'll need a browser to access the HTML interface which has categories of national anthems, books: from Aesop's Fables to H. G. Wells; computers; economy; FAQ; films; jokes: over 10,000!; laws; maths; music; news; pictures (of prehistoric cave art and Andrew Denton's rendered images; poetry; politics; recipes; religion; RFC; science; Star Trek; the Software Society and travel - including 98 pictures of Egypt. Bit of a mixed bag, but lots of useful stuff once you start digging.
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Personal Paint 7.1 aka PPaint 7.1 Excellent Paint program with a hundred new features this time round, including full ARexx. Yes, you can program every action! Useful for web graphics as it has a map editor and can produce animations and coloured fonts. Available from Cloanto.
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Women of the Web aka WOTW Pictures, text, animations and sound files in HTML format of over 250 famous "babes" most of which I have never heard of, but then I don't read those men's magazines. Made a nice slide show for the blokes at work. There are large and small (preview) versions of each picture. Available from SAdENESS Software who also do an X-rated version. System requirements: Amiga 4 Mb 68020 Mac 8 Mb 68030 PC 8 Mb 486Hey look the Amiga does the same job with half the RAM!
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