"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 MARCH 1992: BEST OF FISH 18 NewZAP A third-generation multi-purpose file sector editing utility,from the author of FileZAP.Displays and edits full 512-byte sectors via a 106 character wide internal font. Includes a search feature to find specific strings or hex digits,forwards or backwards. User-customizable, with new printing feature added.This is version 3.3, an update to version 3.18 on disk 164. Now DOS 2.0 compatible. Author: Dallas J. Hodgson BEST OF FISH 45 DiskSpeed A disk speed testing program specifically designed to give the most accurate results of the true disk performance of the disk under test. Automatically updates and maintains an ASCII database of disk results for tested disks.This is version 4.1, an update to version 3.1 on disk 329. Author: Michael Sinz BEST OF FISH 51 FullView A text viewer that uses gadgets at the bottom of the screen (thus can display text 80 columns wide), opens up to the full size of the Workbench screen, displays ANSI color sequences and can load files compressed by PowerPacker. Also shows IFF pictures (which can also be compressed). This is version 3.04, an update to version 2.02 on disk 412, binary only. Author: Jonathan Potter BEST OF FISH 58 PPLoadSeg This program patches the loadseg routine to automatically recognize files crunched with PowerPacker. After running PPLoadSeg crunched libraries and devices are still recognized by AmigaDOS.You can even crunch fonts and use them as normally. Version 1.0, Author: Nico Francois BEST OF FISH 65 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 and has been fully updated to include many new functions. This is version 2.56, an update to version 2.53 on disk 571. Binary only. BEST OF FISH 74 Budget A program to help with managing personal finances.This is version 1.3.4, an update to version 1.3.3 on disk 546.New features include search, selection, replace, and printer output. Binary only. Author: Le Lay Serge Camille 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.This is version 2.01, an update to version 2.0 on disk 561.Now includes a program to fine tune some fields in the trackdisk device, and a "no click" type program. Author: Sebastiano Vigna BEST OF FISH 89 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 2.4, an update to version 2.0 on disk 543. Binary only. Author: Preben Nielsen EPHEMER MOVED FROM BEST OF FISH 82 TO BEST OF FISH 93 MEMOMETER MOVED FROM BEST OF FISH 74 TO BEST OF FISH 94 ************ PLEASE NOTE ************ THE LATEST BEST OF FISH DISKS AS OF MARCH 1992 ARE 92,93,94 THE BEST OF FISH DISKS NOW NUMBER 1 to 94, covering Fish 1 - 600. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 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 OR XICON 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 92 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. AmigaToNTSC AmigaToNTSC patches graphics.library so it will think you have an NTSC Amiga. AmigaToPAL will patch it to think you have a PAL Amiga. Custom screens will open in the mode selected. Version 1.0. Author: Nico Francois Cass Cassette Cover Printer V1.1 is a program to make cassette labels. It produces either the usual ASCII-character-labels or a source-text that can be fed to LaTeX. Written in Maxon's Kick-Pascal. Author: Jö DisKey A sector oriented disk monitor with lots of useful features like disassembler, user-friendly ASCII and hex editing facility, and extensive search options. Useful for salvaging data from damaged disks, or for learning about the inner workings of AmigaDOS. Supports req.library, and external diassembler libraries. Can be iconified to conserve memory. Comes bundled with German and English documentation and a multilingual user interface. On NTSC machines, DisKey will be forced to interlace mode. The version on this disk is 2.1, shareware. Author: Angela Schmidt TurboQuantum A SCSI bit twiddler program that will set or clear the "Disable Disconnection" bit in a Quantum drive's "Control Parameters Mode Page". Disabling disconnection during data transfers can result in a large performance boost on some systems. Author: Ben Fuller VideoDat A very simple databank to store information about your videos. Version 1.2, Author: Sascha Fengel This is BEST OF FISH DISK 93 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. CPUSet A small assembler utility to manipulate the various cache modes of the 68040, 68030 and 68020 processors. The copy- back mode of the 68040 is also supported. The program can operate from the CLI with single or multiple parameters or from Workbench via gadgets. Is compatible with Kickstart 1.3 or V2.04 and requires no external libraries or setpatch commands for the 68040 processor. This is version 1.5, an update to version 1.1 on disk 571. Author: Nic Wilson EnvPrint EnvPrint is a handy tool for printing envelopes for letters. Just type in the addresses or load them from disk, and EnvPrint will organize the printing job for you. Version 1.20. Share- ware US$ 10. Author: Stefan Zeiger Ephemer A program which calculates the positions of the sun, moon, and planets for any date and any place. Author: Yvon Alemany LAZi A graphic interface for the archive utilities Lharc, Arc, and Zoo. LAZi will add, delete, extract, and update single or multiple files, list and test archives, allow you to read extracted readmes/docs or any other ascii file, save a con- figuration file that holds the locations of your work direct- ories, archive utilities, and its position when iconified. At least 1Mb of RAM is recommended.Version 1.0. Author: Mark W. Davis MICE My Image Code Editor. MICE generates source code from stan- dard IFF pictures. Can generate either assembly or C source. Version 1.2. Author: Pierre-Louis Mangeard SuperLock A very flexible security program that can lock any or all of the devices present in the system, making access to them impossible. It can also optionally lock the keyboard and the mouse. Version 1.01. Requires arp.library. Author: Jonathan Potter WorldTime A clock that has two states. In the first state, it has a small window which shows the current time and also the current time in another city in the world. In the second state, a large window shows the time in 84 cities throughout the world. The list of cities is configurable. Version 1.31. Author: Jonathan Potter This is BEST OF FISH DISK 94 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. IconTools Four programs to manage some aspects of icons using the Intuition interface and allowing one operate on many icons at once by shift-clicking. FloatIcon 1.05 sets an icon so that the Workbench can freely place an icon in a drawer window. ReplaceTool 2.04 sets a new default tool for project icons using the Workbench icons or a file requester. ReplaceImage 1.01 changes the image of icons to that of another. Swap- Colors 1.01 swaps colors 1 and 2 in icon images. The last two programs will be useful for converting to the "new look" of Workbench 2.0.In JForth Professional 2.0. Not related to IconTools on disk 284. Author: Richard Mazzarisi MemMometer A program that opens a narrow window and graphically displays your memory usage like a gauge. Based on WFrags, by Tomas Rokicki. Version 2.10, Author: Howard Hull P-Compress A gimmick-free and very easy to use program for most compres- sion requirements. Uses the latest LZH compression algor- ithms. Can handle single files, whole drawers, disks, or selected files or types of file within drawers and disks. In PACK mode it can consolidate files into less space than whole- disk compression tools or archivers. This is version 2.1, an update to version 1.2 on disk 565. Freeware. Author: Chas A. Wyndham, LZH code by Barthel/Krekel P-Reader An all purpose reader that displays texts, pictures, animations and sounds, which may be uncompressed or compressed with P-Compress. Texts can include embedded static or animated illustrations and sounds. This is version 5.2, an update to version 5.1 on disk 543. Freeware. Author: Chas A. Wyndham P-Writer A text editor with special facilities for inserting text color and style changes and for preparing illustrated texts for P-Reader. Version 3.2, freeware. Author: Chas A. Wyndham ScudBuster A Scuds vs. Patriots missle game. This game is a combination of the old Missle Command, Battleship, and Stratego games rolled into one. Set up your strategy and launch missles at your enemy, while he launches missles at you. Version 0.8. Author: Howard Dortch