Fred Fish

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Fred Fish (born November 4, 1952 , † April 20, 2007 in Idaho , USA) was an American software developer . He became known for his work on the GNU Debugger (GDB) and above all for his collection of public domain software for the Commodore Amiga , the AMIGA Freely Redistributable Software Library ( AmigaLibDisks for short ) better known as Fish Disks .

Life

Fish (left) with Jason Compton and Dave Haynie , circa 1995

In the mid-1980s, Fred Fish began collecting freely available software ( freeware or shareware ) for the Amiga and putting it together on floppy disks , the fish disks. These were mainly distributed worldwide by Amiga magazines, but also by mail order companies and file sharing networks. Since computer networks were not yet widespread at that time, Fred Fish made a significant contribution to the distribution of software for the Amiga with his Fish Disks. Besides Fred Fish there were several other Amiga freeware providers, but most of them put their collections together from the Fish Disks.

The Fish Disks has 1120 issues. They contain both user programs and games. Fred Fish later released software on CD under the company name Cronus . On January 19th, 1998 he announced the end of sales activities in the Amiga sector.

Fred Fish worked at Cygnus Solutions before joining Be Inc. in 1998 . In the last years of his life he fulfilled his dream of sailing the oceans.

Fred Fish died at his Idaho home in 2007.

See also

Web links

Commons : Fred Fish  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Full text of "Amiga Manual: Manx Aztec C Compiler (1986) (Manx Software Systems)", Chapter 8.3. In: archive.org. April 1986, accessed February 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ "Cronus Announces Liquidation Sale" (English), Fred Fish in the Amiga Web Directory, January 19, 1998
  3. ^ "Fred Fish" ( Memento of December 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English), Anthony Green in his blog on Fred Fish's death, April 21, 2007
  4. ↑ Homepage of Michelle and Fred Fish ( Memento from January 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ "Re: Fred Fish"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), Posting by Michelle Fish on Amiga.org about the death of her husband, April 25, 2007@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.amiga.org  
  6. ↑ "Fred Fish will be missed" (English), posted by his son Richard Fish on the GDB mailing list, April 25, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Fish, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer programmer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1952
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 2007
Place of death Idaho , USA