Let's start with the Fred Fish disks descriptions and reviews! Fred Fish disks is a collection of various Amiga software.
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Contents of disk 1:- amigademo
- Graphical benchmark for comparing amigas. Author: Charlie Heath (MicroSmiths)
- amigaterm
- Terminal emulation program with xmodem upload/download capability. Author: Michael Mounier
- balls
- Simulation of the "kinetic thingy" with balls on strings where only the end balls move (quick, can YOU come up with a better description?). Anyway, cute. Author: Perry Kivolowitz
- colorful
- Shows off use of hold-and-modify mode. Posted to usenet by Robert Pariseau.
- dhrystone
- Dhrystone benchmark program. Author: Reinhold Weicker (Ada version) Rick Richardson (C version)
- dotty
- Source to the "dotty window" demo on the Workbench disk. Posted to usenet by Dale Luck.
- freedraw
- A small "paint" type program. Free drawing, boxes, filled boxes, etc. Author: Rick Ross
- gad
- "Fun with Gadgets". Demonstration program for use of gadgets. Author: John Draper (Aka "crunch")
- gfxmem
- Graphical memory usage display program. Watch your machine's memory usage! Cute and useful. Author: Louis Mamakos
- halfbrite
- Sample program that demonstrates "Extra-Half-Brite" mode on latter AMIGA's with new VLSI chip. Allows 64 colors in low-res mode, rather than 32. Posted to usenet by Robert Pariseau.
- hello
- Demonstrates creation of a simple window, "hello world". Posted to usenet by Eric Lavitsky.
- latffp
- Shows how to access the Motorola Fast Floating Point library from Lattice C. Also demonstrates the tremendous speedup obtained. Author: Larry Hildenbrand
- palette
- Sample program for designing color palettes. Author: Charlie Heath
- trackdisk
- Demonstrates use of the trackdisk driver. Useful example of "raw" disk read/write. Author: Rob Peck
- requesters
- Sample program and documentation for building and using requesters. John worked REAL hard to dig out all the information in this one! Author: John Draper (aka "crunch")
- speech
- Sample speech demo program. Stripped down version of "speechtoy". Author: Rob Peck
- speechtoy
- Another speech demo program. Cute. You have to see this one. Be sure to click gadget that pops up the face. Author: David Lucas
Additionally, here's sample gallery of my work-in-progress game called "Warehouse" (Magazyn in Polish), a Sokoban puzzle clone with a board editor.