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Welcome to CDPD1, volume 1 of Almathera's CDPD Public Domain Library.
This disk contains disks 1 to 660 of the world-famous Fred Fish PD library,
ready for direct-from-CD use through the WorkBench system.
The easiest way to describe the contents of this disk is to take a quote from
the ReadMeFirst file which appears on each of Fred's disks:
What's Available
There are useful tools, games, programming examples,
editors, compilers for various languages, demos of
commercial products, and other odds and ends.
In other words: Everything. 90% of Amiga public domain software has
at one time or another been on a Fish disk.
If you're having trouble with a title, please bear the following in mind:
<As lifted from Fred's ReadMeFirst file>
Notes
Please keep in mind that most of the materials in this
library are intended for use by experienced programmers,
or at least experienced Amiga users. Many are runnable
only via the CLI user interface, as they contain NO icon
files (particularly the early disks, before about disk
number 90).
Use of the Shell, WorkBench and AmigaDOS are all documented in your
system manuals as supplied with your machine. Learning about these
makes life with your Amiga infinitely less frustrating.
Because of this variation in content from disk to disk, a catalogue and
index program has been included. 'Kingfisher' as it is oh-so-wittily
called, resides in the 'KingFisher' drawer on this disk, and allows you to
search through the disk for software titles of interest. Instructions for
the use of Kingfisher are included with the program. Once you've found a
program, open up the relevant drawers from the PD main drawer to get to it.
Kingfisher does not act as a front-end program launcher.
To change the default text reader <if you haven't got a keyboard>, look in
the 'ToolAlias' drawer, click on the ToolAlias program to start it, and
select 'Use'.
Anything else? Music. There's a whole load of music modules in the
MODULES directory on this CD, with a moduleplayer ready-to-go as
well. Well, you may as well have the CD-server doing something
useful in the background - it is effectively a full Amiga, no?
Protracker, the music creator utility, is also included, however it's
not fully compatible with the AGA chipset as found in modern Amiga
systems. Holding left and right mousebuttons down at powerup allows
emulation of the older chipsets as a fall-back mode via a special
boot menu.
And that's about it. Relax and enjoy your disc.
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And now, the plug:
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Almathera Systems Ltd is a multimedia production company based near
Croydon specialising in CDTV & PC CD-ROM Title production. Contact
us for all your Amiga or CDTV needs.
Almathera Systems Ltd
1st Floor, Southerton House
Boundary Business Court
92-94 Church Road
Mitcham
Surrey
CR4 3TD
England
Tel. : (081) 687 0040
Fax. : (081) 687 0490
And ze creditz, d00dz:
THP. Rebuilding of CDPD to allow networking, multiple networking,
record-breaking ParNets <12 metres in separate rooms is possible,
it's just expensive>, DNets and SerNets all up at once, the sick
mind behind the A1200-ParNet-CDTV-SerNet-A3000-Envoy-LAN jump,
Seb-irritation at twice the price, SCSI devalidation 5 times a
week, and scapegoat par excellence. Lunatic, manic, and strange.
Max Guidi. Built the original with his bare hands/machines.
Jolyon Ralph. Got the multiOS handling right, keeps claiming that
elephants live in trees and eat pencils, despite evidence
to the contrary.