Short: Automated front-end for Portal Architecture: m68k-amigaos This is PortalX 1.30 written by Steve Tibbett. It requires the Amiga OS 2.04 or higher to run. PortalX is an automated Amiga-specific front-end for The Portal Online System, run by Portal Communications of Cupertino, CA USA. On Portal is the Amiga Zone, a resource for Amiga owners which contains over 1 GIG of Amiga-specific files of all description, message bases catering to Amiga users, over 20 Amiga vendors who maintain their own support areas for current and prospective customers, live nightly multi- person chats, and a very large number of "famous" Amigans whose names you will know. Besides the Amiga Zone, Portal offers many other goodies including zillions of Usenet newsgroups, your own Internet email box, ClariNet/UPI newsfeed service, a menu-driven "Internet Services" area, UNIX shell accounts, and dozens of other SIGs catering to a wide variety of interests. PortalX can only be truly useful if you have an account on Portal. However it is not crippled in any way, and you can play around with it to get a feel for its utility, but you won't be able to make it login and actually DO anything on Portal unless/until you get your own Portal account. But, while running PortalX, chose the "read mail" button to read a long and informative file about Portal which will answer virtually any question you could possibly want to ask about the service. If you read this file and still have more questions, you can send email to harv@cup.portal.com (I run the Amiga Zone), to stevex@cup.portal.com (he wrote PortalX), or to Portal Customer Service directly as cs@portal.com Again, PLEASE click on "read mail" and read that long info file before sending mail to ask questions. Note: Registered users (those who paid SteveX the requested shareware fee) already have PortalX 1.40, and another higher version is already in Beta test. Registered users will always be one version ahead of non-registered users. You get a newer version of PortalX (after registering) by logging into Portal and downloading it. Enjoy!