"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 January 1993: 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. Lots of new enhancements including information on devices, resources and ports, and graphical speed comparisons. This is version 3.01, an update to version 2.69 on disk 642. Binary only. Author: Nic Wilson BEST OF FISH 71 APrf A printing utility for the Amiga. Features include full In- tuition interface, preview function, page selection, margin setup, line numbering, an AREXX port, a multi-columns mode, 2.0 system release support and more. Both French and English versions. This is version 1.40, an update from version 1.30 on disk 706. Binary only. Author: Denis Gounelle BEST OF FISH 75 PopUpMenu A small program that makes it possible for you to use pop-up menus with any program that uses standard intuition menus. Version 5.0, an update to version 4.3 on disk 667. Author: Martin Adrian BEST OF FISH 82 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 2.02, an update to version 2.01 on disk 590. Includes a program to fine tune some fields in the trackdisk device, and a "no click" type program. Binary only. Author: Sebastiano Vigna ************ PLEASE NOTE ************ THE BEST OF FISH DISKS NOW NUMBER 1 to 105, covering Fish 1 - 770. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 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 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 65 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. ArchEdge Intuition interface for several of the more popular archiving utilities such as ARC, ZOO, LHARC and PAK. Includes an "Auto-Pad" function that will automatically add some morsels for the modem. Version 1.5, Author: Robert Lang EasyMouse Another threshhold-mouse-accelerating, screen-to-back, window to-front, mouse-blanking, screen-blanking, auto- window activating, low-memory-warning, auto-window sizing, configuration-saveable clock! Version 1.0, Author: Oliver Enseling RandSam Plays random soundsamples at random times, with random volume, random cycles, and a bit random period.It will definitely catch the attention of the unsuspecting Amiga user (particularly one that has the stereo turned up!) when a lion suddenly roars as they're typing away on their favorite word processor! User modifiable start-up configuration file.and some sample sounds. Author: Steven Lagerweij SampleScanner By-passes the Amiga Dos file system and scans a disk directly, block by block, for sound samples. Allows you to "hear" the disk as it is being scanned. If a sample is found, it can be saved to disk for editing, direct use, etc. Author: Steven Lagerweij sMOVIE A smooth scrolling text displayer, useful for creating video titles, slide show intros, etc. Author: Martin Round 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. Lots of new enhancements including information on devices, resources and ports, and graphical speed comparisons. This is version 3.01, an update to version 2.69 on disk 642. Binary only. Author: Nic Wilson TrackDOS A program that allows easy transfer of data between DOS, memory and trackdisk.device. DOS means the data contained within a file, memory means the data contained anywhere within the memory map and trackdisk.device means data stored on a disk not accessable with DOS (eg. bootblocks special loader disks etc.). The transfer of data between these three areas is not normally easy or convenient. TrackDos was written to overcome this. This is version 1.11, an update to version 1.08 on disk 502. Author: Nic Wilson WO An intuition-based address book that allows saving of data in normal or password-encoded form.Version 1.0, (password encoding routines not included). Author: Heinzelmann !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is BEST OF FISH DISK 71 of the freely distributable AMIGA software. APrf A printing utility for the Amiga. Features include full In- tuition interface, preview function, page selection, margin setup, line numbering, an AREXX port, a multi-columns mode, 2.0 system release support and more. Both French and English versions. This is version 1.40, an update from version 1.30 on disk 706. Binary only. Author: Denis Gounelle DIEd A full-screen ANSI editor including an animation utility. Provides PAL and NTSC compatibility. Many useful features such as horizontal and vertical block cut/pasting operations, line/block/screen centering, save defaults and more. Version 2.4, Author: P-E Raue FileEncrypt Another intuition based file encryptor to enable you to scramble your highly secret, hard earned source code and prevent your co-workers from taking credit for it! Author: Lorenz Wiest Formatter A faster and more user friendly floppy disk formatter that is also an example of how to format Amiga file systems in general and get AmigaDOS to accept them. Formatting without verify takes about 50 seconds, with verify takes about 100 seconds. Version 2.7, Author: Olaf Barthel JoyLib Both a linktime version and a shared library of Joystick routines featuring a technique which proves to be extremely fast on 68010 or higher processors, and still faster than most of the other routines on standard processors. Author: Oliver Wagner MandAnim A Mandelbrot Animation program that allows you to easily generate series of lo-res/16-color pictures. Features full mouse and/or keyboard operation, zooms, auto-save, high (+cheat) speed, iconization, preview, ease, etc. The generated pictures all remember their positions and settings so they can be reloaded. This is version 1.2, an update to version 1.1 on disk 387. Author: Ekke Verheul. MuchMorePoPa Extended version of MuchMore V2.7. Displays texts that have been packed with PowerPacker. Version 2.7, Author: Fridtjof Siebert Pcopy An intuition based disk copier for AmigaDOS disks featuring high speed diskcopy with write verify, data recovery from damaged tracks, full multitasking compatibility, and a user friendly interface. This is version 2.12, an update to version 2.11 on disk 383, with new data recovery routines and some bug fixes. Author: Dirk Reisig Yawn! A small WorkBench sliding block puzzle to keep your mind and fingers busy while your compiler is busy crunching away on your highly secret, hard earned source code that you hopefully remembered to unscramble first! Features selectable size from 4x4 to 7x7 and European, Hindi or Arabic numerals. Author: Lorenz Wiest !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is BEST OF FISH DISK_75 of the freely distributable AMIGA software. Hollywood An easy to play trivia game with such subjects as M*A*S*H, Star Trek (old and TNG), Indiana Jones, general television trivia, and more. Each topic contains fifty questions and a related picture. Each time you answer a question right, a small portion of the picture is added to the screen. Shareware, binary only. Author: Imploder Allows you to reduce the size of executable files while letting them retain full functionality. Uses efficient algorithms (both time and space) as well as taking into full consideration the complexity of the Amiga environment. Very well done. Version 3.1, binary only. Author: Peter Struijk and Albert J. Brouwer LCDCalc Probably the prettiest looking four founction (with memory) calculator ever written for the Amiga. Written in J-Forth. Version 1.023, binary only. Author: Mike Haas MenuWriter Allows you to write a menu to the bootblock fo a disk. Allows up to 30 entries of 39 characters long, with commands up to 31 characters long. The loader also allows batch files to be executed. Includes a built in virus detector. Version 3.1, binary only, source available from author. Author: Peter Stuer PopUpMenu A small program that makes it possible for you to use pop-up menus with any program that uses standard intuition menus. Version 5.0, an update to version 4.3 on disk 667. Author: Martin Adrian SetColors A Palette replacement program that does a lot more in only 3K. Can save and load color files, and update preferences. Author: Pierre Carrette. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 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 1.2, an update to version 1.1 on disk 493. Author: Michel Laliberte BootGen This program creates a bootmenu. You simply enter the name of ten programs and the program will do the rest. When you boot the disk a menu will appear where you can choose one of ten program names, which automatically will be loaded. Version 3.4. Author: Frank Enderle 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 Hex A file-based binary file editor with lots of features. Version 1.0, shareware. 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. Author: Preben Nielsen MSCalendar A little calendar utility and a MClk-like MemoryClock in one program. It works fine with KickStart 2.0.This is version 1.10. Author:Markus Stipp 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 2.02, an update to version 2.01 on disk 590. Includes a program to fine tune some fields in the trackdisk device, and a "no click" type program. 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. This is version 2.0, an update to version 1.0 on disk 483. 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 105 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. ARestaure Permits you to restore accidently deleted files. Works on all Amiga partitions (Floppy, Hard disk and RAD:). Intuition interface where user can select between one of three different languages: English, French and German. Version 1.00, Binary only. Author: Jean-Yves Proux InScript A program for producing video titles. Features include fully editable text entry, IFF pictures as background, unlimited number of fonts loaded at one time, up to 99 undos, outline font support (WB 2.0), text styles (shadow, outline, etc) can be named and saved, toolbar for common operations, playback script maker with transitions between pages, adjustable color cycling, low, high and interlace resolutions with overscan, adjustable kerning, and comprehensive text alignment options. InScript can save InScript data, IFF pictures or animation files. At least 1 mb memory required. Version 1.1, share- ware, binary only. Author: Gary Smith MegaEd A powerful text editor with lots of features, some not found elsewhere. Integrated Text oriented database, extensive for- matting/printing functions, macro language, Arexx-port, key- word indention, multiple blocks/marks, key/menu macro record- ing, configurability for lot's of languages/compilers, inumer- able handy functions for programmers, user friendly interface. Version 1.5, public domain, binary only. Author: Wouter van Oortmerssen ReflexTest A game which tests your addition, subtraction, or multipli- cation skills. The goal is to answer several math questions in the shortest possible time. A continuation to the version found on disk number 713. Binary only. Author: Jason Lowe