For owners of Amiga computers ——————————————- FidoNet has a long list of conferences for Amiga users:
AMIGA Amiga International Echo
AMIGAGAMES Amiga Gaming
AMIGA_COMMS Amiga Communications Software and Hardware
AMIGA_DESKTOP Amiga Desktop Publishing
AMIGA_INFO AMIGA_INFO
AMIGA_LC Amiga Lattice/SASC C Echo
AMIGA_NET_DEV Amiga Network Developers.
AMIGA_PDREVIEW Amiga PD Reviews & Requests
AMIGA_PERFECT Amiga Word Perfect & Word Processing
AMIGA_PROG Amiga Programmer's International Conference
AMIGA_SYSOP Amiga SysOp's Discussion/ADS Echo
AMIGA_UG Amiga User's Groups
AMIGA_VIDEO Amiga Video and Animation
EXEC-PC has the Amiga Hardware and Amiga Software conferences, and a large library with shareware and public domain files. ILINK has the AMIGA conference. Usenet's com.sys.amiga hierarchy has entries like advocacy, announce applications, audio, datacomm, emulations, games, graphics, hardware, introduction, marketplace, multimedia, misc, programmer, reviews and more. Abstracts of comp.sys.amiga conferences are available through several BITNET mailing lists, like AMIGAHAR@DEARN, AMIGA-D@NDSUVM1, and AMIGA-S@NDSUVM1. Most online services have "Find this File" commands. The most powerful ones are often found on free bulletin boards. On CompuServe, type GO AMIGA to get to CBMNET and get the following welcome menu:
Amiga Forums 1 Amiga Arts Forum 2 Amiga Tech Forum 3 Amiga User's Forum 4 Amiga Vendor Forum 5 Amiga File Finder
Commodore Forums 6 Commodore Arts and Games 7 Commodore Applications Forum 8 Commodore Service Forum 9 Commodore Newsletter
A while ago, we visited CBMNET to find a communications program.
From the menu above, selection five took us to The Amiga File
Finder service, and this menu:
File Finder AMIGA
1 About File Finder 2 Instructions For Searching 3 How to Locate Keywords
4 Access File Finder
5 Your Comments About File Finder