Started off programming the odd little demo or game, once I had a few disks full of stuff I was pleased to get some stuff on Fred disk mag.
Most notable programs that were on Fred were NotePad (Fred 36), a very fully featured word processor written entirely in SAM Basic, and then a few months later the re-written and much faster NotePrint which added the ability to add lines, pictures and different fonts to a document, admittedly with the loss of the four documents in memory feature.
Also wrote a few articles for FRED, and had Directory Manager on one of the last issues of Outlet magazine.
When games and applications were becoming too big to be included in FRED I started up Search: “BitaByte Disk Magazine”, issue one was compiled and written almost entirely by me, and issue 2 was done before I started trying to sell it. Sales were low, at about the 15-20 mark, as most famous mags wouldn't advertise it for me, but when Outlet featured a text ad for issue 4 featuring the massive 200K game Lemming Attack sales picked up and with Arcadia Disk Mag kindly featuring a demo of Lemming Attack in their issue 6 things improved again :)
Issue 5 was probably the best, as the code and programs were getting more complicated, with full screen scrollers in basic, a little Sphera multiple layer shooter and a demo of a game called Tomato Antix. the main menu being very nice, even if it did run at just 3 fps, lol
Issue 6 was never finished as I received an Amiga to start converting NotePad over.
Some SAM video's at: http://www.youtube.com/yaKC