Aminet CD FAQ
Are Aminet CDs still being produced?
Currently, we are not distributing Aminet files on CD. The last CD is
Aminet CD 52, which has been released in
December 2002.
Can I still buy old Aminet CDs?
If you’re searching for a particular CD to complete your collection, you
might want to check the inventory of some Amiga
dealers - many of them still have old CDs in
stock. Second hand Aminet CDs are often sold in the classifieds sections
of various Amiga forums
or via eBay.
Why don’t you host ISO images of the old CDs somewhere?
Since all of the Aminet CDs contain commercial bonus software that is
not ours to distribute, we can not host them ourselves - and our efforts
to get permissions from former publishers have been futile so far.
But by now, all Aminet CDs can be downloaded from
archive.org anyway, so this is
not an issue anymore.
What’s the difference between “Aminet Share” and “Aminet Gold” CDs?
Aminet CDs 3 and 4 have been distributed in “Share” and “Gold” editions.
Both CDs are completely identical, apart from a small symbol on the
cover of Gold CDs that identifies them as Aminet Gold CDs.
The idea was that the “Share” edition of a CD should be as cheap as
possible, the Aminet team was not earning money from the sales of these
CDs. Customers who wanted to support Aminet financially could buy a Gold
edition CD instead: It cost an additional DM 10, but a part of the
additional revenue created with these CDs was paid to the Aminet team.
The concept didn’t work out and starting with CD 5, the Aminet team was
recieveing a donation for every Aminet CD sold. In turn, the CDs got
somewhat more expensive - the suggested retail price was now about DM 5
higher than that of the former “Share” edition.
Are the content listings of the CDs available online?
We are offering a list of Commercial Aminet
products which includes all of
the CDs and CD sets released. Click on an entry to get some more
information (bonus content, scans of the cover), plus links to user and
magazine reviews (if available) and a content listing.
In fact, if you want to know on which CDs a particular Aminet package
has been released, you can just enter its name in the search box at the
top right of this page and hit .
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