DevWare created a public domain disk library composed of three different series. Their “DevDisk” series contained tools and information for the Amiga software developer and power user (often source code was provided). Their “WorkBench” series was designed to be of general interest to all people and these programs could generally be used from the WorkBench. And their “FunDisk” series was generally made up of games programs.

DevWare made it easy to tell which series was which; the first two letters of a disk represent the series, DD# is the “DevDisk” series, WB# is the “WorkBench series, and FD# is the “FunDisk” series.

In many cases individual disks in a series were catalogued by theme (fonts, utilities, graphics utilities, pacman lookalike games, etc…). They would try to fill each disk to capacity with as many high quality programs as were available. 

Most of the files on the “DevDisk” series do not have icons in order to maximize space and were intended to be accessed via the CLI. The disks were also generally not bootable with a minimal version of Workbench - again, to pack as many programs and files as possible.

The original disk labels were formatted on an Amiga and cut out by hand. The color labels were done on a duplicating machine.

DevWare advertised their catalog in US-based Amiga magazines to reach as wide a market as possible at the time. The company was based La Jolla, a neighborhood in San Diego, California.  

Special Note: 

Due to how DevWare originally created and duplicated their disks for customers across multiple years, the actual dates found on the disks themselves do not always match when the disk was originally produced nor does it necessarily represent the years of the software found on each disk. As a result dating these disks is more focused on the physical disk itself, not the content. Also, some of the drawers and files were often copied in such a way that newer dates would sometimes overwrite original creation dates. FYI