=============== ABOUT THIS DISK =============== - Essential Aminet vol.3 July 1994 - Introduction ============ Most large files downloaded from the Aminet can be compiled onto it's own self-booting disk. Some libraries will even compile small utilities onto 720K disks, leaving more than 200/300K free on every disk. What a waste. The Essential Aminet series intend to bring about most of the latest software from the Aminet and to compile them on self-bootable disks. However, most of the files are under 300K and would not usually be large enough for their own disk. The Essential Aminet volumes bring together the best of Aminet for that particular month. It does NOT mean that all the utilities/programs are new, they are programs that have been UPLOADED to the Aminet in that particular month. Who Compiled Them? Essential Aminet is compiled monthly by Northern Amiga Users Group, in association with VARK. Who's Vark? Vark is well known for his excellent, LSD Legal Tools-type, CLI utility compilations. Now up to version five they have received a warm welcome with both the Amiga press and public. All his compilations contain many useful programs, jam packed onto one disk. When are they Available? Essential Aminet is available the first week in every month. Unlike the Amiga magazines who release a March magazine in February, we would release our March compilation in the first week in April. Why? Simply because we need to spend the month collecting the best bits and pieces from the Aminet then allowing us a week to compile them. Where are they Available From? Vark and Northern Amiga Users Group will be distributing the Essential Aminet each month and as they become more and more popular they will be available from a magnitude of PD libraries. Check out your favourite library. If you would like to order them directly then send the relevant amount to one of the addresses below. The main advantage of ordering direct is that you get the new volume before it is officially released. 3 Disks Essential Aminet = £2.97 Postage = 50p Yearly Subscription = £32.40 Northern Amiga Users Group VARK P.O. Box 151 45 Maplecroft Crescent Darlington Wincobank County Durham Sheffield DL3 8YT S9 1DN Tel. (0325) 352260 Make all cheques and postal orders payable to Northern Amiga Users Group, or Julian Smith if you are ordering from VARK. The VARK CLI tools are available from NAUG or VARK directly. What's on the Disks in General? You will see utilities, reports, guides, icons, updates, patches and various other bits and pieces throughout the volumes. You may not see demos or games as they are generally self-bootable programs of their own right. July's Essential Aminet is a three disk compilation. It comprises of, Disk A Address Manager The latest version of this easy to use, Workbench based address manager. Amiga Entertainment Monthly Is a magazine dedicated to new and info concerning Amiga computers and CD³² games console. In AmigaGuide format. ARTM ARTM is the latest real time monitor. It displays and controls activities in your Amiga. Card App It allows the Amiga computer to read and write to Amstrad Notebook PCMCIA cards. CXHandler A commodities handler. DOS Prefs There seems to be two new versions of this great program every month! DOS prefs can control the "Wildstar" flag of the Amiga dos.library, controls the NOClick and provides a new Unixdirs feature. Font Prefs Replaces the standard Amiga font prefs interface. Heddley Allows you to create AmigaGuide files. HotMaps Use TWO keymaps at one time! Disk B ARC Handler Browse through archives as if they were directories. No need to uncrunch. Button Menu Allows users to create menus in the form of a window with GadTools buttons. Two programs are used: One to create the menu and another which runs the menu. You can run the menu from the startup- sequence. Device Handler Access devices directly. Pack It The latest CLI based power packer. 030 version also on this disk. Palette Tool Replaces the palette prefs. Print Manager Excellent print spooler. Quick DOS Speeds up programs! Remind Is an efficient remind utility. RM A replacement for the AmigaDOS "delete" command. Undel Undelete files from CLI. Welcome Can put a "logo" and text on the screen when booting up or between programs. XL Patch This patch fixes the output redirection on High Density Patch program distributed with Power Computing's XL drive. Disk C Amiga Reports Only 2 Amiga Reports were published in July. Simply because the main editor was on holiday. CD³² Bits July's edition of the CD³² magazine. Krakout An intro taken from the Aminet in July. Created by Absolute. Modules Drawer OK, so we said we would have the number 1 module from July. Erm...it was far too long to fit in the compilation. See Stuart's latest module comp. Two excellent mods taken from the top 10 in July's modules chart. No AGA Designed to run old games, intros tools on your AGA-machine. Octaplayer Latest version of Octaplayer. v5.12. Copyright ========= Althought the programs within this compilation are either Public Domain, Freeware or Shareware the compilation itself is copyright to Northern Amiga Users Group. None of the contents should be altered or changed in anyway. Support the Amiga. Distribute this compilation as you wish. All rights reserved. ================================ NORTHERN AMIGA USERS GROUP P.O. Box 151 Darlington County Durham DL3 8YT Tel: (0325) 352260 E-Mail: bux8@unn.ac.uk ================================