Fred Fish (Fish Disks)

Re:Fred Fish (Fish Disks) by daggersandscars on Thursday August 17, 2023 @03:00PM (#37166386)

The article doesn’t mention it, but the Fred Fish disks were also made available via FTP on the early internet at least by 1991. I don’t know if this was official or unofficial.

Handily, there was a utility that let Amigas read MS-DOS-formatted double-density (720K) disks without special hardware.

Fond memories of going into campus computer labs and FTPing FF disks onto the lab PC and copying the files to disk. The process was error-prone. I’d take 10 disks in and end up with 7 - 9 my Amiga could read.

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Re:Fred Fish (Fish Disks) by tejtm on Thursday August 17, 2023 @03:30PM (#37166749)

Aminet!

Recall it as the largest source of free software on the planet in its time.

And it is still up!

https://aminet.net/misc/fish

thanks for all the fish, truly formative experiences.

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Re:Fred Fish (Fish Disks) by mgk123 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:36PM (#37167637)

amiga.physik.unizh.ch, wasn't that an A3000UX at one point???

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Re:Fred Fish (Fish Disks) by acherion on Thursday August 17, 2023 @07:31PM (#37169704)

First entry on their History page says it was: http://wiki.aminet.net/index.php/The_history_of_Aminet

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Re:Fred Fish (Fish Disks) by anthk on Thursday August 17, 2023 @06:03PM (#37168796)

A fun thing it's that you can acces SSL sites with AmiSSL, and even Gemini clients (something like a device-independent Gopher with mandatory TLS) work.

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