#Xetec CD Software Great!
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Yes, there is a virus problem in the Amiga world, but not nearly to the
extent of the PC world. A utility called "KV" can detect certain kinds of
viruses that are attached to executable files. Most of the other viruses
are BOOT BLOCK virusY.O8nd those are usually only in files which are
complete disk images.
As for whether or not the Internet community would have found any viruses,
yes I would think so. I've retrieved things from the /incoming directory
and never had a problem from there either. Perhaps you can get an Amiga
person to classify that /incoming directory for you? I've heard a couple
of people mention they'd like to get some of the files which were in
incoming.
Steve
Well,
There are a few more sneaky viruses, but LVD (link Virus Detector) can
tell you about those….
My favorite Amiga Virus Checker in VirusChecker 6.05, which I think is
in the libs somewhere. A nice friendly 2.04 commodity….. That _does_ run
in a 1.3 <shudder> environment.
Brian
– via Whap!
If the ab20 disc sells, then we'll upgrade the disc. A site in switzerland
is going to take over the internet amiga archiving functions, and in a
couple of months we could make another amiga disc. At these prices,
though, we have to do some volume before the enterprise makes sense…. It
costs about $1500 for the first CD, then they are only a couple of dollars
each after that. Still, we have overhead [yes, business “overhead'' is
real —
"stamps? what can stamps cost? …i'll buy the stinking stamps
myself!"].
I think the Amiga disc may eventually be popular, especially in Europe, but
so far the response hasn't been overwhelming.
One fact I learned tonight is that there is no standard CBM CDROM drive for
the high end Amigas. Is this right? Can you use a generic scsi drive with
the a2000 or a3000?
-jack
Yes, that's true. Commodore hasn't released a CD-ROM drive yet…they've
shown one a couple of times, but so far nothing has been released. The
company in the title of this thread (Xetec) has a CD-ROM driver which works
with a variety of different generic SCSI CD-ROM drives.
Steve
Check out my article in the March 1992 issue of AmigaWorld. If you don't
have access to back issues, I'll send you a xerox.
Walnut Creek's collection of CD-ROMs is highly recommended. The collections
are extensive and the prices are ridiculously low. They will be featured
in my follow-up article that should appear in the August issue of
AmigaWorld.
Jack,
Could you tell me what you have on the ab20 disc or point me somewhere
where I could find out? Thanks.
-Sean
Sean, here is the catalog entry for the ab20 disc. You can order with
visa/mastercard via mail, or call or fax or write. There is a $5 shipping
charge in the US/Canada/Mexico per order, $10 overseas.
-jack
Walnut Creek CDROM 1547 Palos Verdes Mall, Ste 260 Walnut Creek, CA 94596
+1 800 786-9907 +1 510 947-5996 +1 510 947-1644 FAX 72147,3425 CIS
AB20 Amiga CDROM $24.95
This disc contains the entire Amiga Internet Archive from
ab20.larc.nasa.gov. There is more than 300 megs of software, over three
thousand files. Hundreds of applications, including GNU utilities,
editors, hypertext, plotter utilities, modem and communication programs.
There are demos of commercial programs, video games, strategy games, card
games, and word games. There are many graphical images, animations, and
programs to view them.
There are many documents on Amiga hardware, a huge selection of sound
files, and utilities to play them, including Noisetraker and MED modules.
The Amiga implementation of the TeX typesetting program, with MetaFONT and
dvi filters, is included.
The disc contains all of the Usenet archives comp.sources.amiga and
comp.binaries.amiga. This includes thousands of source code files that are
an invaluable resource for any progammer.
The AB20 Amiga CDROM was made in May 1992
Jack,
Thanks for the info. It looks pretty incredible. Only $24.95!? I'm
going to have to pick up a CDROM drive really soon now…
-Sean
I'd buy the AB20 CD in a heart beat if I had a job so I could buy a CD-ROM
drive. That CD and the Fred Fish CD would be the first two CDs in my
collection. Please don't lose interest. It WOULD be nice if Commodore got
out of the closet and released a CD-ROM drive of their own for all of the
Amigas.
Now if I can convince a friend of mine that runs a BBS to buy a larger
harddrive and CD-ROM drive… 🙂
Dan McCoy – via Whap! and saving money doing it too!