"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 DECEMBER 1991: BEST OF FISH 65 SYSINFO SysInfo A program which reports interesting information about the configuration of your machine, including some speed compar- isons with other configurations, versions of the OS software, etc. This program has been very popular with many users around the world and has been fully updated to include many new functions as requested by users. This is version 2.51, an update to version 2.40 on disk 553. Binary only. Author: Nic Wilson BEST OF FISH 82 SUPERDUPER 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. Version 2.0, an update to version 1.0 on disk 488. Author: Sebastiano Vigna BEST OF FISH 86 DIRWORK DirWork A fast, small, efficient, DirUtility.Configurable options and buttons, as well as all the usual features.Comes with external configuration editor.This is version 1.43, an update to version 1.31 on disk 511.Shareware. Author: Chris Hames IE MOVED FROM BEST OF FISH 58 TO BEST OF FISH 87 D BASEII MOVED FROM BEST OF FISH 82 TO BEST OF FISH 91 ************ PLEASE NOTE ************ THE LATEST BEST OF FISH DISKS AS OF JANUARY 1992 ARE 87,88,91 THE BEST OF FISH DISKS NOW NUMBER 1 to 91, covering Fish 1 - 570. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 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 87 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. IE An icon editor which can create and modify icons up to 640x200 pixels in size (also dual render). It can set stack size, position of icon (also free-floating), default tool, 10 tool types and control over opened window. It can also generate the C source code behind the icon for program inclusion. Now reads/writes IFF files and handles 4 or 8 colour icons. Version 2.0, update to version on disk number 342, source available from author. Author: Peter Kiem MAK The Mandelbrot Adventure Kit is a nicely done mandelbrot generator with full source code (about 18,000 lines of C code). Includes some sample images along with the parameters used to generate them, and lots of built-in help screens. Author: Steven Dillon This is BEST OF FISH DISK_88 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. 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 1.1, an update to version 1.0 on disk 484. Now includes an Intuition interface. Author: Andreas Ackermann DT A "DiskTest" utility for floppy disks, la Norton Utilities. Version 1.12, Author: Maurizio Loreti FreePaint A freely redistributable painting program, much like the popular DPaint program. Version 35z, Author: Stefan G. Boldorf Fkeys Adds window and screen switching functions to the function keys in conjunction with the left Amiga key. For example, use the left-Amiga + F10 to get help and a remove requester. Version 1.1 Author: Torsten Jurgeleit Intuisup A shared library with support routines for using texts, borders, gadgets, menus, and more. Version 2.0, includes test programs. Author: Torsten Jurgeleit TrainerMaker A program that allows you to modify money,number of lives, or high scores of some games. The game to be modified must be capable of multitasking. Version 0.8, Author: Andreas Ackermann This is BEST OF FISH DISK 89 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. Badger Reminder program for your startup-sequence.Badger will open a window and display any important events that are 'due'. Badger will not bother you if there is nothing to report.Events are entered via menu and prompts.This is version 2.05a, an update to version 2.01e on disk 432. Includes many new features such as event editing and  automatic holiday notification.Shareware Author: George Kerber ColorCatch A utility that lets you grab colors from a screen and save them as an executable file.This is version 2.0, an update to version 1.0 on disk 396. Author: Preben Nielsen Day2Day A small program which can calculate the number of days between two dates.Very useful, if for example, you want to know how many days you have been alive.This is version 1.0. Author: Preben Nielsen MouseXY A small utility that shows the mouse coordinates and the color at that position.It can be moved from screen to screen (automatically evacuates any closing screen).Is able to show coordinates even when you are moving/resizing windows or moving Workbench icons.This is version 1.1, an update to version 1.0 on disk 483. Author: Preben Nielsen PictSaver 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 2.0, an update to 'PicSaver' version 1.0 on disk 494. Author: Preben Nielsen PReader An all purpose reader that displays text, pictures, sounds, and animations, all of which may be uncompressed or compressed with a companion compression program (not included).Text can include embedded static or animated illustrations and sounds. Version 5.1, freeware. Author: Chas A. Wyndham SID A very comprehensive directory utility for the Amiga that supports at least a couple of dozen different commands for operating on files.Version 1.06. Author: Timm Martin WBplane Two very small tools to change the depth of the Workbench screen.AddWBplane adds a bitplane. SubWBplane subtracts a bitplane.Both can be run from both CLI and Workbench. This is version 1.0. Author: Preben Nielsen This is BEST OF FISH DISK_90 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. Amastermind A mastermind type game written in AMOS and compiled so that it can be run from workbench. Fully mouse and menu driven. Features choice of 6 to 10 colors with 4 to 8 holes. This is version 1.1, shareware, binary only. Full source avail- able from author. Author: Andrew Kreibich. BootGames Two tiny games which fit on the bootblocks of a boot disk. BootOut is a Breakout style game and Squash is a squash type game (just like on those old TV games).BootOut V5.X and Squash V4.3. Author: Paul Hayter Landmine A game of logic. A number of landmines are buried in the playing field and you need to work out where they are, avoid them, and clear the rest of the field to get maximum points and advance to the next level.Written in compiled AMOS, requires 1Mb of memory or more.This is version 1.0, share- ware, binary only. Full source available from author. Author: Perry Rosenboom MambaMove A game with the goal of moving an apple eating snake inside four walls until an exit appears. Author: Stefan G. Boldorf Reversi Version of the well known game.Features an 'intelligent' computer opponent. Author: Robert Brandner SubAttack A "shoot the ships" type of game based on an old arcade game where you have to fire your torpedos at the right time, so that they strike a ship as the ships move across the screen. This is version 1.0, shareware, binary only. Written in compiled AMOS.Full source available from author. Requires 1Mb or more of memory. Author: Perry Rosenboom Thinkamania Playable demo version of a game like the legendary memory game. Includes superb hires graphics and sound effects. Version 2.1, binary only. Author: Th.Schwoeppe/D.Respondek of Z.U.L.U. Softworx This is BEST OF FISH DISK_91 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. Addresser A small name, address and phone number filer that supports mail merging, auto dialing (with a modem), searching and label printing. Quite handy for keeping mailing lists.This is version 1.0, binary only. Author: Jeff Kelly 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. This is version 5, an update to version 1 on disk 491, and is much improved.Binary only. Author: Robert Bromley Degrader Degrades your machine to try and get badly written programs to work. Locks out fast memory, turns off cache and burst modes, traps privilege errors, forces PAL or NTSC modes, etc. Survives reset. Version 1.00, binary only. Author: Chris Hames DosManager You can copy, delete, move, view, show as pictures, play as samples, rename, ... , files with this program. It is also possible to program a personal command with Dos- Manager. This is version 1.0, shareware, Author: Jurgen Stohr DPatch This program allows you to change the default overscan sizes used in DeluxePaint 3.25 & 4.02. This is especially useful for loading in old animations created with Dpaint 3.14 and animations created in other programs whose screen sizes do not match the default Dpaint sizes. Author: Colin Bell FED A binary file editor with lots of options.This is version 1.1, binary only. Author: Thomas Jansen FlashCopy A multitasking friendly disk copier that can make nibble copies as well as standard DOS copies in about 75 seconds. Version 0.9, binary only. Author: Thomas Jansen FontList Prints a list of the fonts in the FONTS: device to the printer. Prints name, available sizes and some text using the specified font. Includes source in Modula II. Author: Robert Brandner ShowGuru Recognizes 168 different guru numbers and translates them to "human understandable form".Can also print the result. Version 2.1.b, shareware, binary only. Author: Thomas Carstens