ferry@chorus.fr (Ferry de Jong) (01/14/91)
MONTHLY POSTING: Amiga newsgroups under comp.sys.amiga.*
This article contains a list of all newsgroups in
comp.sys.amiga.* with a short description of their pur-
pose. It is posted by me every month in
comp.sys.amiga.introduction.
Pay attention to the version number of this article. It
indicates what kind of changes are made to the contents
compared to the previous posting.
First number changed: Major changes, perhaps added
newsgroups. (Although not very likely.)
Second number changed: Minor changes and clarifica-
tions.
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DISCLAIMER
Use the information in this posting at your own risk and cost.
All opinions expressed are mine, not necessarily those of my
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Introduction
All amiga related newsgroups are listed in alphabetical order. The last
newsgroup is comp.unix.amiga which isn't under comp.sys.amiga but also
belongs in this list.
comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
The large number of long lasting threads about "here's why the Amiga is
better than Brand W (and vice versa)"; "here's what the other folks are
doing and how the Amiga compares"; "why doesn't the Amiga have this
Brand-X computer feature", "Commodore should add feature Y (at no addi-
tional cost)", "Commodore should recall everything and fix problem Z",
benchmarks comparing Amigas to Amigas and to other platforms; rumors,
(lack of) marketing complaints and suggestions for new ads, and general
"do it better" ranting go here.
comp.sys.amiga.announce
Moderated: Fred_Fish-disks, meetings, new products, product updates,
shareware releases, uploads to archives, tool bug reports, and other
formal announcements go here.
comp.sys.amiga.applications
All discussions about application software without a specialised group
go here, like: productivity, desk top publishing, personal finance, TeX,
METAFONT, Postscript, fonts, printer drivers, word processing, utili-
ties, hacks, etc. Commercial, shareware and freeware non-games, non-
multimedia software applications talk. How to use, how to interface,
and so on.
comp.sys.amiga.audio
Music applications, MIDI, synthesized speech, voice input, sampled and
synthesized sound discussions go here.
comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
BBS software, terminal emulators and other modem software
({xpr,}{u,x,y,z}modem, kermit, etc.), ftp, networking, creating, using,
and passing archives (arc, zoo, lharc, lhwarp, pkazip, compress, uuen-
code and uudecode, etc.), downloading and uploading text and binary
files, email and news, sharing software and data, compression methods,
archive site pointers, general machine to machine stuff. DNET, UUCP,
PARNET, Ethernet, etc. too.
comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Discussions of the several hardware and software emulations of other
computers (Mac, IBM-PC, Atari, C64, Apple 2 series, ZX-81(?), and more)
that run on/in (software/hardware emulations, respectively) the Amiga.
Includes discussions of games and applications running only under the
emulations, since they are not of interest to the rest of the Amiga com-
munity.
comp.sys.amiga.games
Talking about buying and playing games; casual reviews and discussions
go on here.
Archival quality games reviews should go to c.s.a.reviews, "used games
for sale" ads should go to c.s.a.marketplace, and games software design
discussions should go to c.s.a.programmer or rec.games.programmer.
comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Charts, graphs, screen hacks, ray tracing, using graphics standards on
the Amiga (Renderman, PHIGS, GKS, CGM, Postscript, PIC, X windows), and
other still picture or completely non-serious graphics discussions go
here. Image packaging discussions also belong here or in
c.s.a.datacomm, depending on graphics or data compression focus.
comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Hardware discussions go here. Hardware developers', hobbyists', and
users' "smell of solder" talk and assistance forum.
Formal hardware product reviews belong in c.s.a.reviews.
comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Monitored: This is where newusers get introduced to the c.s.a.* groups,
and to the Amiga, and where experienced people can read and write
answers to common questions. Frequently asked questions postings, how
to use the c.s.a.* groups, and other standard and slow expiring postings
go here, also newusers questions and the answers to them from sympathet-
ic gurus go here. The goal is that all "normal operation" questions and
answers go here rather than in the more technical groups.
comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
Mail order and retail vendor reviews, where to find it, where to get
good prices, informal product ratings; talk about buying and selling
stuff for the Amiga. Personal Amiga hardware and software "for sale"
and "wanted" ads go here too (But preferably in
misc.forsale.computers.).
comp.sys.amiga.misc
The c.s.a.* general talk group. Post a multifaceted new thread here in
preference to crossposting. Crossposted articles within the c.s.a.*
groups should use this group as the Followup-To line entry. This group
replaces the former comp.sys.amiga.
comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Animations, video, television, and multimedia combinations of them with
graphics and music and speech. The showcase for the Amiga's five years
as the television studio microcomputer multimedia platform of choice.
comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Software developers' and programming hobbyists' "code cobbling" talk and
assistance forum.
comp.sys.amiga.reviews
Moderated, archived: where to put your formal reviews of new stuff for
the Amiga: hardware and freeware, shareware, or commercial serious and
game software.
There will be guidelines for review format which will be posted in this
group.
comp.unix.amiga
Amiga Minix and Unix SYSV4 and successors, all Amiga specific aspects
will be discussed here.
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