ScuzzBlog: Diaries February 2018 Entry 26th February 2018: Post: 1 Fred Fish Anyone using an Amiga for any length of time will eventually trip over the name Fred Fish or Fish Disk. Sadly Fred is no longer with us but fortunately his memory lives on through the library disks he created. In the days without internet the public domain served to provide software , very often free of charge or just for a nominal fee. Fred Fish was the father of the freely distributed software that was collated to a disk and issued as an AmigaLibDisk. His work started at the very birth of the Amiga and continued up until April 1994 by which time he had issued a 1000 disks. I was not planning on featuring his work here today but as I spent the morning digging through my PD disks to find a few favourite games and some Rampage disks, I kept tripping across the Fish disks with every disk box and drawer I opened. Anyway I have put togther a small sample of the disks and CDs that I uncovered to show some typical examples of the kind of disks Fred Fish released. What is utterly marvellous about the disks and a credit to the Amiga is that all the collected work on one Fish disk fits on a single DD floppy. It really is incredible when you reflect on the massive storage space needed these days just for the most rudimentary of applications. And yet the Amiga did all this with one DD floppy. OK today I was sifting through endless PD disks to find a few games I needed Managed to find them all Also found my missing Rampage disks Then I found this FCAT which is basic code for Fish Catalogue which basically is the tip of a very large Fish iceberg I guess I have all of the Fred Fish disks Starting with Fish Disk No.1 Most are on CDs of which there are a plenty Every Public Domain house had Fish Disks Although called Fish disks they were labelled AmigaLibDisk and here is No.1 Fred's first Readme Typical Fish Disk icon Not content with programs, the disks always carried informative readme files This disk holds this wonderful animation of a basketball player.. Amazing really And disks were filled to the brim with programs, files and guides In the day the little gems on each disk were very very useful. Having ready access to disk based software for so little served to fire the imagination of many who in turn created their own programs which no doubt found their way onto Fish disks Though rather simplistic in appearance now, they still served a very useful and significant purpose in the development of the Amiga. Fred basically was fuelling the fires and pumping the lifeblood of the Amiga around the community The Amiga... A community with no boundaries So if you want to see more ... Go Fish !!! Fred Fish ... Sadly missed

If you can only see this CONTENT window
then click the image above for the full site

Last updated 26/02/2018

Chandraise Kingdom

Keep the Faith
scuzzscink 2018