FishNDA

Year	2010
Publisher	Ryan Suenaga
Developers	Ryan M. Suenaga
Control	Mouse
Other Requirements	System 6.0.1, Marinetti 2.0.1 or later, and a working TCP/IP connection. Copy Fish.NDA into */System/Desk.Accs and restart.
System 6 Compatible	Yes
Hard Drive Installable	Yes
Release Status	Freeware

About

FishNDA is Ryan Suenaga's New Desk Accessory, released 11 April 2010. It asks abevigoda.com whether Abe Vigoda, Phil Fish on Barney Miller, is alive, and shows the answer. The window is titled Fish NDA 1.0. The button reads Really? Check again! The copy that was tested offline comes up with the default, Abe Vigoda is currently alive, as of 12:36 AM PT on Saturday April 10 2010. On a live connection after 2016 the same window says he is dead.

It needs System 6.0.1, Marinetti 2.0.1 or later, and a working TCP/IP connection. Copy Fish.NDA into System/Desk.Accs and restart, and it shows up in the Apple menu. The readme still says to copy IItter into that folder. That line is left over from another of his desk accessories. The NDA includes ORCA/Pascal run-time libraries from The Byte Works, used with permission.

Ryan died in a hiking accident in 2011, and ryansapplesoftware.com went with him. The NDA was missing for fifteen years. In October 2026 Kay Savetz found it in Common Crawl, and Ken Gagne wrote up the recovery on A2Central. This archive hosts the recovered files on an 800K disk, volume FISHNDA. The same NDA is installed on the Communication Apps hard drive image, in DAs/Fish.NDA.v1.0 and in System/Desk.Accs, so booting that volume puts FishNDA in the Apple menu.

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