Amiga “Boing Ball” Wallpaper
Ever since its debut demo along-side the original Amiga, the Boing Ball has been a beloved icon for the Amiga community. The demo, put together in just hours; and within hours of the Amiga’s...
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Amiga “Checkmark” Logo from Workbench 2 & 3 Wallpaper
When the Amiga was first released in 1985, Commodore choose to brand the new computer with a new logo, a multi-colored, rainbow, double-checkmark. On Amiga hardware, this logo was only featured on the original...
Amiga “Workbench 1.3 Disk” Icon Wallpaper
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...
Amiga “Preferences” Icon Wallpaper
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,...
Amiga “Say” Icon Wallpaper
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...
Gamechangers – Jay Miner & The Amiga Computer
The story of Amiga is not just one of a forward-thinking computer design, even though that design became the standard for the systems we enjoy even today. It is also a story about the clash of...
Amiga Workbench 3.0 Startup/Boot Screen Wallpaper
Released in 1992 along with the brand new Amiga 1200 and 4000 computers, Workbench 3.0 was an evolution of Workbench 2. Its major changes included support for Commodore’s new AGA chipset. For the Workbench...
Amiga Workbench 3.1 Startup/Boot screen Wallpaper
By 1994, Commodore was dying, and dying quickly. Amiga marketshare was rapidly shrinking and the only profitable parts of the company left were the operations in Germany and the UK. Never-the-less, the engineering teams quashed tons...
