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From: ken@msor.ex.ac.uk (Ken J. Powell)
Subject: comp.sys.amiga.games Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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Summary: This posting contains a list of Frequently Asked
Questions (and their answers) about Amiga games. It
should be read by anyone who wishes to post to the
comp.sys.amiga.games newsgroup.
Keywords: commodore,cbm,c=,amiga,games
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Last-modified: 1995/10/24
Version: csag_faq 2.2 (28.11.95)
General Information
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comp.sys.amiga.games FAQ $VER: csag_faq 2.2 (28.11.95)
New this version
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New link in Gurus section.
Updated Games Domain address.
Various updates of program versions.
Introduction
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If you're new to this group, READ THIS. All of it. Please.
This FAQ provides the answers to the most Frequently Asked Questions
on this newsgroup; readers new to this group should read it before
posting.
It is posted on or about the 25th of each month to
comp.sys.amiga.games, comp.answers and news.answers. New users of
Usenet news should be sure to read all of the articles in
news.announce.newusers to familiarise themselves with the general
etiquette of communicating on the net.
How to get this FAQ
===================
Listed below are possible methods of obtaining the latest version of
this FAQ. Unless noted it comes in an archive containing AmigaGuide,
ANSI text, and postscript formats.
FTP
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Usenet FAQ Archive:
`ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.sys.amiga.games/games_FAQ' Text
only.
MSOR FTP server: `ftp://msor.ex.ac.uk/pub/amiga/games_faq.lha'
Aminet: `ftp://ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/aminet/docs/help/csag.faq.lha'
Games Domain: `ftp://wcl-l.bham.ac.uk/pub/djh/faqs/C.S.Amiga.Games.lha'
WWW
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These are HTML versions of the FAQ
MSOR WWW server: `http://msor.ex.ac.uk/pub/amiga/faq.html'
Games Domain: `http://www.gamesdomain.co.uk/'
E-mail
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Usenet FAQ Archive
Mail `mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu' with the line
*send usenet/news.answers/amiga/games-faq* in the body.
Aminet Mail Server
Mail `ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk' or `ftpmail@ftp.luth.se' with
*SEND pub/aminet/docs/help/csag.faq.lha* in the body.
Me :-)
Mail `ken@msor.ex.ac.uk' with *Games FAQ* in the subject line. This is
not a 'bot answering so you could also say hi!
Correspondence
==============
Corrections, suggestions, comments and cash bribes :-) are welcome,
please send them to Ken Powell at ken@msor.ex.ac.uk.
Copyright
=========
This document copyright (C) 1995 by Ken Powell.
It may be placed on Aminet (including Aminet CD) and Fred Fish (any
format he wants). Mail me for permission to use in any other material.
Some terms used in this document are trademarks and registered
trademarks of their owners, these are not necessarily indicated in the
text but are acknowledged.
Credits
=======
Thanks to Christina Schulman (schulman+@pitt.edu) for letting me use
her comp.sys.mac.games FAQ as the basis for this FAQ.
Nick Ridley (nick@mentaur.demon.co.uk) for the CivAGA patches.
Suggestions and additions to this FAQ have been contributed by:
ML Hewitt (u3f88@cc.keele.ac.uk)
Rowan Crawford (dljar1@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au)
Mikali (u9162828@uow.edu.au)
Geoffrey Newman (grn@alcove.apana.org.au)
Nicholas Fisher (kau10@central.sussex.ac.uk)
Elliott Mitchell (ehem@cyro.cryogenic.com)
Bill Bennett (bill.bennett@zoology.oxford.ac.uk)
dEN (ma3dhcy@midge.bath.ac.uk)
Nigel Hughes (ngh94@aber.ac.uk)
Jan Ellgring (mozart@orgasmatron.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de)
Peter Olafson (Peteroo@aol.com)
Thanks!
A Word About Flaming
====================
Every now and then some moron posts something along the lines of
"Amiga games suck!!!!! Get a real machine!!!!!" And immediately 30 or
40 people take the bait and post long, vitriolic replies and exhort
everyone to mail-bomb the perpetrator.
Please, please, please don't waste your time and our bandwidth
replying to this kind of idiocy. More often than not it was posted as
a practical joke from the account of some hapless user who left
themselves logged in at a public computer cluster. The owner of the
account then logs back in a day or two later to find several megs of
hate mail and uuencoded core dumps in their mail spool.
If you feel that you absolutely have to share your witty, concise
flame on the complete superiority of the Amiga above all other gaming
platforms, take it to comp.sys.amiga.advocacy, where it will be
appreciated.
Sources of games and information
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PD and Shareware
================
There are many Amiga games available to try for free. These games
go under many labels including freeware, PD, shareware, giftware,...
Most of this software is avaliable on the 'net although some is only
avaliable from PD Houses which advertise in various Magazines.
Aminet
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The major site for ftp'ing Amiga software is the Aminet chain.
There is the *mother* site at `ftp.wustl.edu' and mirror sites around
the world. (A mirror site is a site that contains an exact copy of the
contents of another site, in the hopes of diverting some traffic away
from the more popular site. The mirror sites are usually several hours
behind the *mother* site.)
It is usually faster to get files from the nearest mirror. A full
list of sites (correct at 3/10/95) is below - mirrors are being added
all the time so this is subject to change.
Location Name IP Address Path
USA (MO) ftp.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 pub/aminet/
USA (WI) ftp.netnet.net 198.70.64.3 pub/aminet/
Australia ftp.livewire.com.au 203.16.26.3 pub/aminet/
Scandinavia ftp.luth.se 130.240.18.2 pub/aminet/
Switzerland ftp.eunet.ch 146.228.10.16 pub/aminet/
Switzerland ftp.math.ethz.ch 129.132.104.6 pub/aminet/
Germany kelly.uni-paderborn.de 131.234.128.206 pub/aminet/
Germany ftp.uni-paderborn.de 131.234.2.42 pub/aminet/
Germany ftp.uni-stuttgart.de 129.69.18.15 cd aminet
Germany ftp.uni-erlangen.de 131.188.3.2 pub/aminet/
Germany ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de 130.149.17.7 pub/aminet/
Germany ftp.uni-trier.de 136.199.8.81 pub/aminet/
Germany ftp.tu-chemnitz.de 192.108.33.193 pub/aminet/
Germany ftp.fh-augsburg.de 141.82.16.242 pub/aminet/
Germany ftp.uni-oldenburg.de 134.106.40.9 pub/aminet/
Germany ftp.uni-bremen.de 134.102.228.2 pub/aminet/
Germany ftp.uni-kl.de 131.246.9.95 pub/aminet/
Germany ftp.uni-siegen.de 141.99.128.1 pub/aminet/
Germany ftp.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de 132.187.1.2 pub/aminet/
France ftp.cnam.fr 163.173.128.15 pub/aminet/
Portugal ftp.ua.pt 193.136.80.6 pub/aminet/
UK ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk 155.198.1.40 pub/aminet/
UK micros.hensa.ac.uk 148.88.8.84 pub/aminet/
People with only e-mail access can use ftpmail from ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk
and ftp.luth.se. Send e-mail to `ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk' or
`ftpmail@ftp.luth.se' with *HELP* in the body.
Commercial
==========
If you want commercial games then several companies will sell them
to you cheap. National chains in the UK, including Future Zone and
HMV, have special offers on at various times (including new releases).
Mail order companies also offer good discounts on new and old games.
National firms that may ship orders abroad are:
UK
* Premier Mail Order : +44 1268 271172
* Special Reserve : +44 1279 600204 (joining fee)
AUSTRALIA
* Sigmacom : (02) 524 9846
* Solutions Rendered : (02) 838 0733
Magazines
=========
Various magazines either discuss games or are dedicated to them.
This is a list of various magazines worldwide.
UK