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- From: barrett@cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews
- Subject: MINI-REVIEW: Fresh Fish CD-ROM #1, October 1993
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Date: 4 Nov 1993 03:44:24 GMT
- Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett
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- Keywords: freeware, CD-ROM
-
-
- Fred Fish's first CD-ROM disc, "Fresh Fish, October 1993", is a
- fantastic resource for any Amiga owner, especially programmers and
- knowledgable users. This disc is a pleasure to use and was obviously put
- together by someone with a strong knowledge of not only the Amiga, but also
- freeware in general.
-
- Unlike many other Amiga CD-ROM discs containing freeware, this disc
- contains software that is ready to run and well organized, instead of
- archived and/or organized by floppy disk number. Here is just a sampling of
- the major software on the disc:
-
- GNU Emacs
- The GNU C++ compiler
- The Amiga "E" compiler
- PasTeX
- Commodore's AmigaGuide and Installer
- Commodore's AmigaDOS 2.04 and 3.0 "include" files
- Anders Bjerin's famous "CManual" Amiga programming tutorial
- lha, lharc, lhwarp, warp, dms, gzip, and other archivers
- BTNTape tape driver
- AmiCDROM CD-ROM filesystem
- A few dozen GNU and BSD UNIX tools, ported to the Amiga
- Fish Disks 600-930
-
- But this disc is more than just a bunch of software thrown together.
- Real thought went into what is included here. For example, PasTeX (a
- port of the TeX typesetting system) comes not only with many fonts and
- macro packages, but also Michael Doob's famous "Gentle Introduction To
- TeX", Geoffrey Tobin's "Metafont for Beginners", extra DVI printer
- drivers, dvips, BibTeX, and Fig. Nice!!!
-
- Make sure you read the README-FIRST file on the disc. If you don't,
- then you won't learn about the script file you need to execute to set up
- everything for use.
-
- I recommend this disc highly. If this is any indication of
- future discs, I recommend them highly too.
-
- Amiga Library Services
- 610 N. Alma School Road, Suite 18
- Chandler, AZ 85224-3687
- U.S.A.
-
- voice/FAX: (602) 917-0917
-
- The price is $29.95 per CD-ROM, plus $3.00 shipping and handling to
- USA/Canada/Mexico, or $5.00 shipping and handling elsewhere. If you order a
- CD-ROM before it is released, you get a discount. A 6-page description of
- the CD-ROM distribution is available by e-mail from Fred Fish at
- fnf@cygnus.com.
-
- Dan
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