Fred Fish
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Fred Fish (November 4, 1952 – April 20, 2007) was a computer programmer notable for work on the GNU Debugger and his series of freeware disks for the Amiga.
Fish worked for Cygnus Solutions in the 1990s before leaving for Be Inc. in 1998.[1]
In 1978, he self-published User Survival Guide for TI-58/59 Master Library.[2] It was advertised in enthusiast newsletters covering the TI-59 programmable calculator. Fish also initiated the "GeekGadgets" project, a GNU standard environment for AmigaOS and BeOS.
Personal life
Fred Fish was married to Michelle Fish (née Norman) at the time of his death. He died of a heart attack[3] at his home in Idaho on Friday, April 20, 2007.
The Amiga Library Disks
The Amiga Library Disks – colloquially referred to as Fish Disks (a term coined by Perry Kivolowitz at a Jersey Amiga User Group meeting) – had a reach that included most all Amiga users in the world.[4] Fish would distribute his disks around the world in time for regional and local user group meetings, which in turn duplicated them for local distribution. Typically, only the cost of materials changed hands. The Fish Disk series ran from 1986 to 1994. In it, one can chart the growing sophistication of Amiga software and see the emergence of many software trends.[1]
The Fish Disks were distributed at computer stores and Amiga enthusiast clubs. Contributors submitted applications and source code and the best of these each month were assembled and released as a diskette. Since the Internet was not yet in popular usage outside military and university circles, this was a primary way for enthusiasts to share work and ideas.[5]
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fred Fish". spindazzle.org. Archived from the original on December 24, 2008. Retrieved 2017-09-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fish, Fred (1978). "User Survival Guide for TI-58/59 Master Library" (PDF). rskey.org. Retrieved 2018-06-19.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Richard Fish - Fred Fish will be missed". sourceware.org. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Moss, Richard (2023-01-10). Shareware Heroes: The renegades who redefined gaming at the dawn of the internet. Unbound. p. 40. ISBN 9781800181106.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fish disks 1 - 1120". www.amiga-stuff.com. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
External links
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- Fish Disks
- Interview with Fred Fish
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- Announcement of first Fish disks
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