"BEST OF FISH" COLLECTION  The following disks are the result of a severe culling of the Fish Disks, which often have numerous updates, obscure text files, many programming source files, etc, of little use to the average user. Leon Jarvis has worked long and hard to reduce the collection to the most useful and interesting items, to make the Fish Collection easier to digest, and less of a problem to hunt through for that particular program. However, the full Fish Collection is always available from us if there is anything omitted which you might find useful. This list is constantly being updated by Leon, so keep updating your catalogue. Disks 1 - 7 cover the Fish disks from 1 - 100, disks 8 - 13 cover the Fish disks from 101 - 150 (amazing how it squeezes down), and disks 14 - 35 cover them from 151 - 210, and 15 - 40 cover from 211 - 236 and so on. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These BEST OF FISH DISKS Files have been updated as of SEPTEMBER 1991: BEST OF FISH 51 AVAILMEM BEST OF FISH 65 SYS INFO BEST OF FISH 65 TRACKDOS BEST OF FISH 67 VIEW80 BEST OF FISH 67 SNAP BEST OF FISH 68 LOANCALC BEST OF FISH 74 DATAEASY BEST OF FISH 82 HEX ************ PLEASE NOTE ************ THE LATEST BEST OF FISH DISKS AS OF SEPTEMBER 1991 ARE 82, 83,84,86 THE BEST OF FISH DISKS NOW NUMBER 1 to 86, covering Fish 1 - 530. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| IF THINGS DON'T WORK... Just a word to everyone that uses any public domain collections. Or If you are new to the Amiga and you are having problems and you are getting a requester saying something like: "please insert volume Best_of_fish" and you know that you just put your disk in the drive then more than likely you have removed a file from your Boot disk and the program cannot find it. MOST OF THE TIME I HAVE FOUND THE FILE TO BE ICONX THAT IS MISSING FROM THE BOOT DISK. USE A COPY OF YOUR ORIGINAL WORKBENCH - THIS SHOULD STOP ANY PROBLEMS. This is BEST of FISH disk 82 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. BBFormat A floppy disk formatter for diskettes with hard errors. Bad media areas are mapped out so AmigaDOS will not use them. Presently not intuitionized, runs from CLI only. Version 5/7/91, Author: David Varley BizCalc A do-it-all user friendly loan calculator that calculates weekly and biweekly loans. Can generate amortization tables to the screen, to the printer, or to a file. Uses menus, bottons, or keyboard commands, and iconifies. Has six decimal precision option and more. This is version 1.1, an and expansion of MortCalc 2.5 on disk 385. Binary only. Author: Michel Laliberte BootPic BootPic allows you to install nearly any IFF picture that you like in place of the WorkBench hand that appears after a reset. Version 1.0, Author: Andreas Ackermann ColorSamples A few executable color samples made by ColorCatch from disk 396. Contains the 'old' colors from kickstart 1.3 and the 'new' colors from kickstart 2.0. Very useful because some programs/icons look awful when displayed in colors other than the ones they were created for. Author: Preben Nielsen bBaseII A simple database program using an intuition interface. Stores, sorts, and searches for information. Limited to 9 fields in each record. Features include fast sorting, search in any field, and best of all, it's really easy to use. Binary only. Author: Robert Bromley Ephemer A program which calculates the positions of the sun, moon, and planets for any date and any place. Author: Yvon Alemany Hex A file-based binary file editor with lots of features. Version 1.0, shareware, binary only. Author: Nicola Salmoria MouseXY A small utility that opens a little window in which it shows the mouse coordinates and the color at that position. It can be moved from screen to screen and is able to show coordinates even when you are moving/resizing windows or moving Workbench icons. Version 1.0, Author: Preben Nielsen SuperDuper A very fast disk copier and formatter. Can make up to four unverified copies from a ram buffer in 36 seconds. Verified copies from a ram buffer take 67 seconds for one destination drive, plus 34 seconds for each additional destination. Binary only. Author: Sebastiano Vigna TD A program like TrackDisplay on disk 399 by Olaf Barthel. It monitors and displays the current track for each floppy disk connected to the Amiga.Version 1.0, Author: Preben Nielsen TLPatch A utility to allow corrections in pronunciation for programs that use the Translate() function. It allows you to extract the exception table from the translator.library, use a text editor to edit the table, and then restore it back into the library. Version 1.0, Author: Richard Sheppard This is BEST OF FISH DISK 83 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. Connex A "connect-4" type game. This is version 4.0, an update to version 3.8 on disk 493. Shareware, binary only. Author: Adrian Millett Dominos The standard game of dominos with 6-6 set.The computer will provide quite a challenge to any skilled player. Version 1.0, Author: Russell Mason FlipIt Possibly the strongest Reversi/Othello type game available. Shareware, binary only. Author: Adrian Millett Klondike A single player card game. Version 1.1c, binary only. Shareware. Author: Peter Wiseman Solitaire A shareware solitaire game, known widely as Klondike. The rules can be varied, and there are five different ways of working through the deck. Also includes a palette requester to fine tune the colors to your liking and a save-setup function that remembers how all the options are set.This is version 1.8, binary only. Author: Gaylan Wallis Spades This is an Amiga version of the card game spades.It is a one player version, where the computer plays your partner and two opponents.This is version 1.2, an update to version 1.1 on Disk 392. Author: Greg Stelmack This is BEST OF FISH DISK 84 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. ButExchange An input handler to help left handed Amiga users.It reverses the function of the mouse buttons, so that the left button becomes the right and vice versa. Very small, uses only 168 bytes of memory. This is version 1.1, an update to version 1.0 on disk 483. Author: Preben Nielsen FreeCopy FreeCopy is unlike most copiers in that it does not actually copy disks.It removes the protection so disks can easily be backed up with almost any program, and in some cases be installed on your hard drive. Version 1.4, Author: Greg Pringle Genesis A uniquely flexible and powerful program for generating and rendering fractal landscapes. Original algorithms allow incorporating fractal rivers as integral parts of the landscapes, with natural looking river valleys, gulleys, waterfalls, and lakes. A number of parameters can be varied to modify the landscape construction process and change the character of the final landscape, there is also great flexibility in the rendering. This is a demo version of the commercial product by the same name available from Microillusions and has some features disabled. Author: James M. Bardeen InputLock An input handler to help Amiga users who have cats other pets (or children) that mess with the Amiga as soon as it is left for a second.It installs an input handler which lets you lock the keyboard and mouse by pressing a few buttons.Very small, uses only 190 bytes of memory.This is version 1.1, an update to version 1.0 on disk 483. Author: Preben Nielsen NoErrors A simple to use, Gadget driven program.Its main function is to hide physical hard errors from floppy disks or hard disks, so these disks can then be used without DOS showing read/write errors. Binary only. Author: Nic Wilson PicSaver A small utility that allows you cut rectangular portions of any screen and store them on disk as IFF ILBM files. Also allows easy saving of windows and entire screens to disk. This is version 1.1, an update to version 1.0 on disk 483. Author: Preben Nielsen PWKeys An input handler that allows you to manipulate windows and screens by pressing keys on the keyboard.It currently lets you perform 25 different functions.Features include mouse blanking, screen blanking, mouse acceleration, "sun mouse", mouse/keyboard locking, and an interactive program to define hotkeys and other settings.This is version 2.0, an update to version 1.0 on disk 483. Author: Preben Nielsen TapeCover TapeCover prints out those little paper inserts for casette tape cases. It lets you enter the name of the songs, and the title of each side.It should work on any printer that can print in that semi-condensed mode.Version 1.0, Author: Greg Pringle This is BEST OF FISH DISK 85 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. Arq Replaces the standard system requesters with nice animated requesters which you can also attach different sounds to. Works under AmigaDOS 1.3 or 2.0 to give all the normal system requesters a nice new look.Version 1.61,binary only. Author: Martin Laubach, Peter Wlcek, and Rene Hexel FontConv Converts MacIntosh Postscript type 1 and type 3 fonts to the IBM Postscript type 1 and type 3 format. Also converts MacIntosh bitmap screen fonts to the Adobe binary format (abf). Version 1.2, binary only. Author: Gary Knight LandScape A simple CAD program to aid in designing garden layouts. First the plan is laid out, placing lawns, paths, plants, etc., and the program then draws a '3D' picture of what the garden might look like in real life, from any viewpoint. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Steve Goddard MightyMouse A very small screen blanker, mouse accelerator, mouse blanker, hot key, etc. utility. Version 1.05, binary only. Author: Bob Stouder PicBase A program that allows the user to organize and manage all IFF images and brushes stored on disk. Displays a miniature monochrome (8 or 16 level) image of each file, with information such as the full pathname, the creation date, file size, image size and depth, display mode, and filenote. The images are displayed four at a time and can be scrolled in realtime, manually or automatically sorted, presented as a slideshow, and more. Version 0.36, shareware, binary only. Author: Mike Berro ScreenJaeger A screen capture program that works by scanning through memory, allowing you to grab screens from programs that don't multitask, and save them as IFF files. Features include an Intuition interface, multiple bitplanes, support of all Amiga display modes and resolutions, CHIP and FAST memory, overscan, and both NTSC and PAL.This is version1.0, Author: Syd L. Bolton This is BEST OF FISH DISK 86 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library.Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. ATCopy A program to copy files from the Amiga side of a system equipped with a PC/AT bridgeboard, to the PC side, using wildcards. Copies directly through the shared memory. Supports CLI and WorkBench usage.This is version 2.22, an update to version 2.2 on disk 458.With some final bug fixes, this will be the last non-commercial release. Shareware, binary only. Author: Peter Vorwerk DirWork A fast, small, simple, efficent, shareware DirUtility that gets directories off floppies in about half the normal time. Configurable options and buttons, as well as all the usual features. This is Version 1.31, an update to version 1.30 on disk 508. Shareware. Binary only. Author: Chris Hames OneKey A 1.3/2.0 compatible input handler for people who can only press (or cause to be pressed) one keyboard key at a time. OneKey gathers individually pressed qualifier keys (shift, alt, control, etc) and then applies them to the next non- qualifier key that is pressed.This is version 36.11, Author: Carolyn Scheppner Solitaire Yet another solitaire game.Nicely done with good graphics and sound. Shareware. Author: Pat Clark