April 98
Welcome to the sleek new Amiga Format CD.We started implementing changes to
our CD last month after a good deal of looking at the best ways of presenting
the information gathered on the CD. This month, to coincide with our quarter
century of the world's best CD, we took that theme one stage further by
making sure that the information you want is as easy to get to as
possible. As such there have been a few changes:
- The +Look_here_1st!+ drawer has gone. There is now a
+System+ drawer that replaces it and some of its functionality has
been taken up in other ways:
- AF_on_the_web has gone. If you want to examine the websites'
files, you can do so using a filemanager like DOpus by looking in the
root of this CD. If you want to view the websites, you can do so by
clicking on the link at the bottom of this page.
- The +System+ drawer also contains things like AFCDFind (and the
indices for it) and ReaderRequests. The Amiga Angels, Submission Advice and other
text files can all be found in a drawer called Info.
- The PD Select drawer has been moved to -In_the_Mag-. This drawer doesn't
always have files in it due to the difficulty in finding megademos that are
suitable for all audiences that don't violate copyright.
- The Prefs and MUI directories have both been moved to the +System+ drawer
because you are unlikely to need to access them a lot of the time, so, again,
they were removed from the root.
- Possibly most importantly +AFCD_Setup+ has also been moved to
+System+. We know you don't really like to have to run a program to
make sure that your CD is properly assigned all the time and you especially
don't want to have it make changes to your hard drive or start running things
that you don't want and we are constantly trying to ensure that you don't
need such a file. AFCDView now also recognises the fact that you may not have
run +AFCD_Setup+ so you shouldn't end up not being able to view your pictures
and the like.
These changes (and more to come) should ensure that you get the best you can
out of our CD. If you have any suggestions for us, don't hesitate to get in
touch at the usual address.
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