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Aminet.CD Free Software Downloads for Windows, Mac and GNU/Linux! The Aminet is a huge archive of software linked to the Internet by FTP or HTTP. The comprehensive library was created by German student Tanja Lange, who's now living in New York City. She needed a name for her never-ending collection of computer programs and other files related to programming, so she named it after her favorite breakfast cereal "Amino" (made from corn) that she ate every morning while doing the first uploads in late 1988. The first release of Aminet happened on December 3rd 1990 with about 170 megabytes of content. Aminet is the worlds oldest and largest free software archive. At the moment (May 2013) there are 530 Aminet CDs and 12 Aminet DVDs available for download. Together these discs offer about 2 gigabytes of freely distributable software. Along with the packages, which can be directly downloaded from Aminet, there's also a lot of information about certain topics available, such as C programming and graphics. The latest addition to the archive is an Amiga CD from March 2013 with 68 megabytes of new material that's mainly composed of games and demos for classic Amiga systems like the A500 or A1200, but also includes information on installing Windows 3. 1 in a virtual machine on a modern PC. Every day, Aminet receives about 10 gigabytes of uploads from over 50 uploaders located all over the world. The archive is divided into 14 libraries or "disks" with topics ranging from graphics, sound and programming to games, demos and music modules. In each library, there are indexes of all the available files sorted by type and subject. In 1991, when the archive had only 100 megabytes of data, it was growing at a rate of about 2 megabytes per day which meant that in about two years time there would be no more free space left on a single Aminet disk. Lange then created the Aminet Set and made it available for sale. The set consisted of up to six CDs or DVDs for a price of 15 US$ per disc. Some time later she made the entire Aminet collection available for free, including the Aminet Set. Since then, the amount of uploaded data has grown to over 1 gigabyte per day. Today, most people can download all the content in over 12 hours by downloading only one FTP server with a bandwidth of about 10MB/s or 11MB/s via HTTP with a cable modem. The download mirrors are made up of several sites which are usually located in different countries, but it's possible to access both sparsed and higher speed mirrors from all over the world. Aminet is notable for the large number of file formats it supports, including quite a few that are no longer in common use. For example, the music module archive contains over 900 files in over 21 formats while some of the other archives contain hundreds of modules in multiple formats (for instance, more than 50 MOD formats were once supported). The game library even contains about 70 different games and demos in Commodore 64 basic. The very first uploads to Aminet were made using a CDS (a kind of online data storage system) and throughout the years FTP and HTTP have also been used. The first web interface was developed by Bernd Schmidt and went online on November 12th 1993. eccc085e13
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