Conference hydra::amiga_v1

    Fred Fish disks are basically all the worthwhile PD utilities, etc.
    available for the Amiga.  They can be found on the PeopleLink network
    for downloading, but it gets pretty expensive.  Amazing Computing
    magazine usually has a Fred Fish index, and you can send a SASE
    & blank disks to the address they give.  I'll post it if I can find
    it.

    I found where the PD stuff is...Contact :
    
    		PDS Software
    		Amazing Computing
    		PiM Publications
    		P.O. Box 869
    		Fall River, MA 02722
    
    
    You can try calling them at (617) 679-3109.
    
    If you write them, I think you'll get an index on what is on the
    Fred Fish disks, and the AMICUS disks also.  Remember, this is PD
    stuff, but you may have to spend 10 bucks or so per disk for the
    effort involved in copying.
    

Here is a partial index of the Fred Fish library. It is about a month
    old.
    
    
    
    

Condensed List of the Fred Fish disks, 1 through 24.
====================================================

To the best of my knowledge, materials in this library are freely
redistributable.  This means that they have met one or more of the
following conditions:

(1)   The materials contains explicit copyright notices permitting
   redistribution.

(2)   The materials were posted to a publically accessable electronic
   bulletin board and did not contain any copyright notice.
   (Such materials will be removed if it is subsequently shown
   that copyright notices were illegally removed.)

(3)   The materials were posted to a widely disseminated electronic
   network (such as usenet), thus implying that their author/poster
   intended them to be freely distributed.  This applies only if
   they contain no notice limiting distribution.

(4)   The materials contain an explicit notice placing them in the
   public domain.  This is not the same as condition (1).


HOW TO GET THE FRED FISH DISKS:

First, check your local user group.  All public domain disks should
be freely available, or available for the cost of copying and mailing.


Direct from Fred Fish

To obtain a list of all disks currently available in the AMIGA library,
and ordering information, send a preaddressed mailing label and 3 loose
first class stamps to:

   Fred Fish
   345 Scottsdale Road
   Pleasant Hill, Ca  94523

A small service charge is made to cover the cost of disk, mailing materials, 
postage, and associated miscellaneous expenses.


Through Amazing Computing magazine

These disks are also available through Amazing Computing magazine.  Again, a 
small service charge is made to cover expenses, but they have them for less 
than Fred, and also have the AMICUS public domain library.  A full catalog is 
available, and is printed in each issue of the magazine.

Send inquiries to this address:

PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE
Amazing Computing
PIM Publications
P.O. 869
Fall River, Mass. 02722

Electronic addresses:  Compuserve 72237,135; Delphi JOHNFOUST;
People Link AMICUS; at the Well and uucp "jfoust".



Disk 1:

amigademo   Graphical benchmark for comparing amigas.
amigaterm   simple communications program with Xmodem
balls       simulation of the "kinetic thingy" with balls on strings
colorful    Shows off use of hold-and-modify mode.
dhrystone   Dhrystone benchmark program.
dotty       Source to the "dotty window" demo on the Workbench disk.
freedraw    A small "paint" type program with lines, boxes, etc.
gad         John Draper's Gadget tutorial program
gfxmem      Graphical memory usage display program
halfbrite   demonstrates "Extra-Half-Brite" mode, if you have it
hello       simple window demo
latffp      accessing the Motorola Fast Floating Point library from C
palette     Sample program for designing color palettes.
trackdisk   Demonstrates use of the trackdisk driver.
requesters  John Draper's requester tutorial and example program.
speech      Sample speech demo program.  Stripped down "speechtoy".
speechtoy   Another speech demo program.

=========================================================================

Disk 2

alib        Object module librarian.
cc          Unix-like frontend for Lattice C compiler.
dbug        Macro based C debugging package.  Machine independent.
make        Subset of Unix make command.
make2       Another make subset command.
microemacs  Small version of emacs editor, with macros, no extensions
portar      Portable file archiver.
xrf         DECUS C cross reference utility.

=========================================================================

Disk 3

gothic      Gothic font banner printer.
roff        A "roff" type text formatter.
ff          A very fast text formatter
cforth      A highly portable forth implementation.  Lots of goodies.
xlisp       Xlisp 1.4, not working correctly.

=========================================================================

Disk 4

banner      Prints horizontal banner
bgrep       A Boyer-Moore grep-like utility
bison       CNU Unix replacement 'yacc', not working.
bm          Another Boyer-Moore grep-like utility
grep        DECUS grep
kermit      simple portable Kermit with no connect mode.
MyCLI       Replacement CLI for the Amiga.  Version 1.0
mandel      A Mandelbrot set program, by Robert French and RJ Mical

=====================================================speechtoy, with IO requests
text.demo   displays available fonts
timer       demos timer.device use
trackdisk   demos trakcdisk driver

=========================================================================

Disk 6

compress    like Unix compress, a file squeezer
dadc        analog clock impersonator
microemacs  upgraded version of microemacs from disk 2
mult        removes multiple occuring lines in files
scales      demos using sound and audio functions
setparallel Allows changing parallel port parameters
setserial   Allows changing serial port parameters.
sortc       quicksort based sort program, in C
stripc      Strips comments and extra whitespace from C source
      
=========================================================================

Disk 7

This disk contains the executables of the game Hack, version 1.0.1.

=========================================================================

Disk 8

This disk contains the C source to Hack on disk 7.

=========================================================================

Disk 9

moire       Draws moire patterns in black and white
MVP-FORTH   Mountain View Press Forth, version 1.00.03A.
            A shareware version of FORTH from Fantasia Systems.
proff       a more powerful text formatting program
setlace     Program to toggle interlace mode on and off.
skewb       a rubic's cube type demo
sparks      moving snake Graphics demo

=========================================================================

Disk 10

conquest   An interstellar adventure simulation game
dehex      convert a hex file to binary
filezap    Patch program for any type of file.
fixobj     Strip garbage off Xmodem transferred files.
iff        Routines to read and write iff format files.
ld         simple directory program
ls         Minimal UNIX ls, with Unix-style wildcarding, in C
sq,usq     file squeeze and unsqueeze
trek73     Star Trek game
yachtc     Dice game.

=========================================================================

Disk 11

dpslide    slide show program for displaying IFF images
           with miscellaneous pictures

=========================================================================

Disk 12

amiga3d    Shows a rotating 3 dimensional solid "Amiga sign".
ArgoTerm   a terminal emulator program, written in assembler
arrow3d    Shows a rotating 3 dimensional wire frame arrow.
ld4        directory listing program
IconExec   two programs for launching programs from Workbench
SetWindow  that presently only work under CLI.
SetAlternate   Makes an icon show a second image when clicked once
StarTerm   terminal emulator, with ASCII Xmodem, dialer, more.

=========================================================================

Disk 13

Grab bag of BASIC programs

=========================================================================

Disk 14

amiga3d    update of disk 12, includes C source to a full hidden
           surface removal and 3D graphics package, in C.
beep       Source for a function that generates a beep sound
dex        extracts text from within C source files
dimensions demonstrates N dimensional graphics
filezap    update of disk 10, a file patch utility
gfxmem     update of disk 1, graphic memory usage indicator
gi         converts IFF brush files to Image struct, in C text.
pdterm     simple ANSI VT100 terminal emulator, in 80 x 25 screen
shell      simple Unix 'csh' style shell
termcap    mostly Unix compatible 'termcap' implementation.

=========================================================================

Disk 15

Blobs      graphics demo, like Unix 'worms'
Clock      simple digital clock program for the title bar
Dazzle     An eight-fold symmetry dazzler program.  Really pretty!
Fish       double buffered sequence cycle animation of a fish
Monopoly   A really nice monopoly game written in AbasiC.
OkidataDump   Okidata ML92 driver and WorkBench screen dump program.
Polydraw   A drawing program written in AbasiC.
Polyfractals  A fractal program written in AbasiC.

=========================================================================

Disk 16

Complete copy of the latest developer IFF disk

===========================================================don't clean up

=========================================================================

Disk 20

AmigaToAtari   converts Amiga object code to Atari format
DiskSalv       program to recover files from a trashed AmigaDOS disk.
Hash       example of the AmigaDOS disk hashing function
Hd         Hex dump utility ala Computer Language magazine, April 86
MandelBrots    Mandelbrot contest winners
MultiTasking   Tutorial and examples for Exec level multitasking
Pack       strips whitespace from C source
PortHandler    sample Port-Handler program that performs.
               Shows BCPL environment clues.
Random     Random number generator in assembly, for C or assembler.
SetMouse2  sets mouse port to right or left port.
SpeechTerm     terminal emulator with speech capabilities, Xmodem
TxEd       Demo editor from Microsmiths Charlie Heath

=========================================================================

Disk 21

This is a copy of Thomas Wilcox's Mandelbrot Set Explorer disk.
Very good!

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Disk 22

This disk contains two new "strains" of microemacs.

Lemacs      version 3.6 by Daniel Lawrence.
      For Unix V7, BSD 4.2, Amiga, MS-DOS, VMS.  Uses Amiga function
      keys, status line, execute, startup files, more.

Pemacs      By Andy Poggio.  New features include <ALT> keys as Meta keys,
      mouse support, higher priority, backup files, word wrap,
      function keys.

=========================================================================

Disk 23

Disk of source for MicroEmacs, several versions for most popular
operating systems on micros and mainframes.  For people who want to
port MicroEmacs to their favorite machine.

=========================================================================

Disk 24

Conquest   interstaller adventure simulation game
Csh        update to shell on Disk 14, with builtin commands, named
      named variables, substitution.
Modula-2   A pre-release version of the single pass Modula-2
      compiler originally developed for MacIntosh at ETHZ.
      This code was transmitted to the AMIGA and is executed
      on the AMIGA using a special loader.  Binary only.

=========================================================================

End of file!


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Check note 21 also.Other sources of pd stuff are Amicus,and BCS(boston
    computer society).While much of the information is redundent the
    sources vary on ease of use and documentation. Also try your dealer
    mine has a very good assortment of pd software with contributers
    bringing in disk as they get them.this way you get to make a copy
    on the spot.Very informal but it works well for me.

    Thanks for all the info. If anyone has PD stuff that they would
    be willing to copy for me, I will gladly supply blank disks and
    toss in a few extras for the service.
    
    Paul