Programmed by: © Stefan Ossowskis Schatztruhe
Price: £15.00 + £1.00 P&P
Available from: Forematt Home Computing.
Supplied on: Amiga CD-ROM also readable with Windows 95/98/NT, OS/2 and Unix etc.
Game type: More than 1,500 Amiga Games
Required hardware: Amiga with AGA or GFXboard, 1.5 MByte ChipRAM, 4 MByte FastRAM
Description: A CD containing nearly 1 gigabyte (uncompressed) in more than 1,500 archives of the best games from the world's largest software archive.
On Aminet Games CD you will find some 1,527 freeware and shareware
games plus around 70 commercial titles including Gloom3, Max Rally,
XTreme Racing and Gamers Delight 2. There are so many titles here
that it is impossible to name or tell you about them all. Many of
the titles such as Gloom 3 deserve a review on their own. The Gamers
Delight 2 drawer contains no less than 70 excellent games coded by H.
Muller, these alone will keep you busy for hours. The games have been sorted according to their category as follows:-
It's important that you realise that ALL the games on the CD have
been compressed using the LHA utility and have be uncompressed before
you can play or install them. However this is made very easy for you
by utilising a program called Power Guide. Power Guide is very
similar to AmigaGuide which I'm sure that you are all familiar with. Clicking on one of the games categories will bring up a Power Guide
screen. (See Aminet Games Pic) which will list all the games of that
category. You can then either select to read about the game or
select its title to uncompress it. I would recommend that you read FIRST about the games as many of the
older titles will only run on A500/600 machines or require a degrader
such as JST or SKICK to run on a A1200/4000 computer. Uncompressing the games has been made easy too. Just click on its
title and the game will automatically be uncompressed to RAM. The
game can either be played direct from RAM or you may wish to copy it
to your hard drive to play.
Well there's certainly plenty of excellent quality games to play and
the Power Guide method of uncompressing the game files is easy once
you get the hang of it. I was however a little disappointed to find
that many of the games were shareware. Don't get me wrong here I
have nothing against shareware games, after all why shouldn't the
author be rewarded for all his hard work. However many of these
games are many years old and I doubt very much that the authors are
still with the Amiga now. I would therefore suggest that before you send off any registration
fees that you check FIRST the author is still participating. Another
downside is that there are far too many titles that are too old to
run on a modern day Amiga and therefore you can expect many a system
crash trying to run them. These minor problems aside the Aminet Games CD contains so many
titles that there is something to please everyone, and a wonderful
opportunity to play again some of those old games you have forgotten
all about. I would recommend this CD to anyone as it offers
excellent value for money.