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About The Fred Fish Collection CD ROM Project
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Fred Fish's collection of public domain and Shareware
represents the definitive source of such software for the
Amiga community. About a year and a half ago I first
contacted Fred regarding the possibility of putting his
collection on a CD ROM disc. At the time, however, there
seemed there was no likely possibility of connecting CD
ROM drives to the Amiga, at least not on a scale that
would generate enough sales to pay back the cost of such
a project. Early in 1990 I contacted Commodore regarding
the status of CD ROM for the Amiga and was briefed on the
"Baby" (now CDTV) project. HyperMedia Concepts was
formed and work began in earnest on The Fred Fish
Collection CD ROM.
Three very specific guidelines where established for the
project:
1) The disc must be true to the original source.
The CD ROM is intended to be a distribution media
for the Fred Fish collection in its ORIGINAL form.
This disc is intended to be a LIBRARY from which the
component programs can be copied for use. The layout
of the collection on the CD ROM must parallel the
layout Fred Fish collection on floppies with little
or no variation. The collection is published as a
whole with no exclusion or addition of material to
any of the Fred Fish disks.
2) The CD ROM must be priced in such a way as not to
take advantage of the work of others.
Most of the data on the disc is the result of the
hard work of a group of dedicated developers that
are receiving minimal compensation for their work.
It was our intent to price the disc in such a way as
to recover the costs of production, maintenance, and
distribution of the CD ROM. The target price we
believed should not exceed that of most game
programs. We felt it would be ethically incorrect
for us to profit from the work of others. The price
also had to conform to the distribution conditions
stated in documentation of many of the programs on
the disc; stating that only a minimal production,
distribution and copying fee should be charged for
disks (discs) containing the individual programs.
The current pricing of the disc represents a cost of
17 cents per Fred Fish disk (or 20 cents per
megabyte of data) to the end user. We feel this
complies with the intent of the distribution
guidelines for the programs on the disc.
3) The disk must be virus free.
Production of the disc was done on two dedicated
Amigas with Workbench installed from factory sealed
original disks. The data was loaded directly from
write protected Fred Fish disks obtained directly
from Fred. No other disks where allowed near the
production stations. The production process was
monitored through out using various virus detection
utilities. We feel that the disk is as clean as it
can possibly be. It was our intent to produce a
disc that could be used as a virus free source for
the production of Fred Fish disks by user groups and
others.