Prior to Workbench 1.3, in the user interface, system disks would appear as generic, blank-white, silhouettes of a 3.5in floppy. Released in 1988, to go with the new Amiga 500 and 2000 computers, Workbench...
Continuing the run of the Atari ST’s clever icons in the TOS operating system, the ‘system busy’ state was represented by the Busy Bee. This downloadable ZIP file contains a 400×400 transparent PNG, and...
Released in June 1985, the Atari 520ST was designed to compete against the, at the time, still unreleased Commodore Amiga computer. Featuring a Motorola 68000 CPU running at 8MHz, the 520ST, and later its...
Workbench 1.0 through 1.2 included a classic and unique icon. “Preferences” featured a wonderful digital silhouette of the Amiga 1000, fronted by a bold orange question mark – simply inviting users to click and explore. This,...
The Amiga was one of the first computers to include built-in speech synthesis. Packaged with the Workbench OS was a program called “Say“, which was little more than a simple CLI/Shell’ish box that allowed the user...
For my recent birthday, I received Canon’s EF-S 10-18mm lens as a gift. Over the last few months, I’d been exploring macro and landscape photography with Canon’s EF-S 24mm STM pancake lens, and the...
In July of 2014 I wrote an article here called Audiophile on a Budget which went into the details of building a high end audio system while not breaking the bank. What I didn’t...
Legos are awesome. I loved building the space Lego sets back in the 80s. I had the Galaxy Explorer, the Space Cruiser, the Space Command Center, the Moon Base, the Beta-1 Command Base, the...
