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Popular Libraries

• UK · 1987–1997

  One of the biggest names in the Amiga public domain world, 17 Bit Software was a UK-based PD library that grew into a genuinely massive archive of freely distributable software. 17 Bit Software catalogued and distributed thousands of disks covering every corner of what the Amiga community was creating.

• USA · 1986–1994

  Starting in 1986, American programmer Fred Fish began curating and distributing floppy disks packed with freely distributable software, and what he built became arguably the most trusted and widely circulated software library the Amiga ever had in its pre-Internet era.

PD Libraries

• Scope was a Texas-based Amiga public domain disk series that grew to 175 numbered volumes, making it a substantial collection in the early years of the Amiga.

• A small but well-curated Amiga public domain library that produced a series of disks under the Slipped Disk name. The series ran to at least 20 volumes, covering a range of software types including games, utilities, and demos.

• USA

  A curated collection of freely distributable software for the Amiga, running to at least 23 numbered volumes. Its character was distinctly programmer-friendly, as suggested by the "apprentice and journeyman" subtitle - each disk was packed with utilities, tools, and source code, the occasional game tucked in among them.

Scene

• UK

  The Assassins were one of the most prolific and widely distributed groups in the Amiga public domain scene. A couple of guys from the north of England, they built up a games compilation series that became a staple of PD library catalogues throughout the UK.

• A demo group that compiled the LSD Compendium CD-ROM series, gathering demos, modules, graphics, animations, and utilities from across the Amiga scene. The three-volume series spans thousands of files contributed by groups and individuals worldwide.

User Groups

• USA · 1990

  A.M.I.G.O.S., or sometimes AMIGOS, but calling itself Miami Amigos on the disks themselves - was a monthly disk series produced by what was almost certainly a Miami, Florida Amiga user group. The date codes on the disks (1/90, 3/90, 4/90, etc.) place active production firmly in 1990

• USA

  TBAG, the Tampa Bay Amiga Group, was a Florida-based Amiga user group whose monthly disk series became one of the longer-running and more widely circulated examples of community-produced PD software in North America. What made TBAG notable wasn't just the content of their disks, but their timing: the series began in 1986, just a year after the Amiga's launch, making it one of the earliest ongoing Amiga user group disk series anywhere.

• USA

  ARUG, the Amiga Amateur Radio User Group, was a specialist user group serving the overlap of two enthusiast communities: Amiga owners and licensed amateur radio operators. It produced a disk series focused squarely on amateur radio applications for the Amiga, making it one of the more distinctive and purposeful collections in the broader Amiga PD world.

• NZ · 1986-1990

  The New Zealand Amiga Users Group's first "newsdisk" is dated December 1986 (within eighteen months of the Amiga's launch) but the group had a printed newsletter and had been meeting in Wellington and Auckland before that. The group grew from two founding branches into a nationwide network spanning many towns and cities across New Zealand, and the newsdisk series ran to at least 29 disks.

• USA

  S.N.A.G., the Southern Nevada Amiga Group, was a Las Vegas-based Amiga user group that produced a monthly Disk of the Month series throughout 1990. The series ran to at least 14 numbered disks, each one a mixed-content compilation of games, utilities, graphics, and screen hacks typical of the American user group format.

Disk Magazines

• UK · 1991-1995

  JAM was a UK-based subscription-only Amiga magazine published from 1991 to 1995, running for 58 issues