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The Amiga Aminet archive is available now on CDROM. The disc contains the entire Aminet from amiga.physik.unizh.ch as of mid-May 1993. It also contains the old AB20 archive and most of comp.sources.amiga and comp.binaries.amiga. There is a total of 650 meg of stuff on this disc. The disc is in Level-2 ISO-9660, which means that filenames are up to 32 characters, single case. We made sure the filenames are unique in the first 8 chars, so this disc will also work okay in MSDOS. The disc has index files for several MSDOS BBS's. The disc contains thousands of programs, including utilities, games, development tools, graphics, business software, hardware documents, sound and music programs, and much more. If you want to check out what is on this disc, the readme and index files are available via anonymous ftp from cdrom.com in the directory /cdrom/cdroms/aminet. The price is $24.95. S&H is $5 (per order, not per disc) for US/Can/Mex, and $10 for overseas. If you live in California, please add sales tax. You can send a check or money order, or you can order with Visa/MC/AmEx. Walnut Creek CDROM 4041 Pike Lane, Suite D Concord CA, 94520 +1 800 786-9907, +1 510 674-0783, +1 510 674-0821 FAX 72147,3425 orders@cdrom.com The disc is also available by subscription for $19.95 + S&H per quarter ($5 off the regular price). If you want to subscribe, your credit card will be charged as each new edition is shipped. New editions will come out every three or four months. This disc is *FREE* for any author whose work is included on the CDROM. If you want a free disc, please email me the name of the program you wrote and a complete postal address. Overseas addresses are okay. I would like to thank several people that helped make this disc a reality, including Urban Mueller, Brian Wright, Mike Stark, Chuck [>> Continued in next msg]