Tagged: amiga stuff

Amiga Workbench 2.05 Bootscreen.

Amiga Workbench 2.0 Startup/Boot Screen Wallpaper

Released in 1990 to coincide with the launch of the Amiga 3000, Workbench 2 was a familiar, yet different experience for veteran Amiga users. The colorful palette from Workbench 1.x was replaced by a...

Workbench v1.3 pointer/cursor

Amiga Workbench v1.x Mouse Pointers for Windows

You don’t have to suffer the lame Windows pointer any longer!  Remember when your computer was fun and exciting, and not ordinary?  Well, here is what you have been looking for, an Amiga Workbench...

Eric Graham's 'The Juggler' demo for the Amiga - 1986.

‘The Juggler’ Demo for the Amiga

In 1986, personal computers were not supposed to be powerful enough to render, in real-time, reflections and movement in 3D.  But Eric Graham’s “The Juggler” demo for the Amiga did just that, building on...

Amiga Workbench v1.x Icons

Remember when subdirectories were “drawers”, not “folders”?  It’s just an icon, so, it can be that way all over again!  No more generic desktops!  It is time for reclaim your computer with the Amiga...

Amiga Guru Meditation Error screen Wallpaper

The original Amiga concept was for a video game console which could be turned into a computer.  Early in the development of the system, the engineering team constructed a controller called the “Joyboard”, similar...

The "Insert the Workbench 1.3 Disk" boot screen from the Commodore Amiga.

Amiga Workbench v1.3 Startup/Boot screen Wallpaper

Bringing a last round of bug-fixes to AmigaOS 1.x, and the ability to boot from hard drives, Workbench v1.3 is easily the best-known v1.x release.  This downloadable ZIP file contains screen captures of the...

The "Insert the Workbench Disk" boot screen from the Commodore Amiga.

Amiga Workbench v1.2 Startup/Boot Screen Wallpaper

Like Kickstart, the initial versions of Workbench were a mess, with an extremely short development times and pushed-out-the-door on marketing’s schedule.  To their credit, however, Commodore was able to get out Workbench v1.2, and...

The "Insert Kickstart Disk" boot screen for the early Amiga 1000's.

Amiga Kickstart v1.0 Startup/Boot Screen Wallpaper

The original Amiga computer was a technical marvel, but the underlying OS was very, very buggy.  To deal with this, Commodore made the decision to not place the Amiga’s OS into ROM, but rather, requiring...