AMINET SET 8 offers you everything that was added to the archive since AMINET SET 7 was made, plus full versions of CygnusEd 3.5, ArtEffect 1.5, Gloom 3 und Directory Opus 5.5.
AMINET® SET 8, dated July 1999, consists of approximately 4 gigabytes of software in 5.500 archives. Since the release of Aminet 31 more than 300 MB of new software have been added and more than 600 MB did never appear on regular Aminet CDs due to space restrictions.
| CD | Directory | Size | Files | Contents |
| Set 8a (Tools) | disk | 9 MB | 76 | Disk & HD tools |
| docs | 208 MB | 315 | Documents | |
| game | 491 MB | 16 | Games | |
| hard | 12 MB | 56 | Hardware related | |
| text | 28 MB | 135 | Text software | |
| util | 138 MB | 631 | Utilities | |
| Set 8b (Gfx) | biz | 207 MB | 242 | Business software |
| gfx | 95 MB | 259 | Graphics software | |
| pix | 759 MB | 879 | Pictures | |
| Set 8c (Fun) | comm | 79 MB | 397 | Communications |
| demo | 421 MB | 265 | Graphics & sound demo | |
| dev | 131 MB | 366 | Development software | |
| game | 307 MB | 685 | Games | |
| misc | 136 MB | 191 | Miscellaneous | |
| Set 8d (Mods) | mods | 1020 MB | 832 | Music modules |
| mus | 61 MB | 163 | Music software | |
| Set8 | complete: | 4111 MB | 5508 | |