Tagged: commodore

Amiga Boing Ball Demo

The Amiga “Boing Ball” Demo Animated GIF

As an old Amiga-geek, this little GIF here makes me smile.  The bouncing “Boing Ball” demo was an amazing thing for its time, as is the lore behind it.  Consensus seems to be that...

Amiga emulator for Chrome

Online Amiga Emulator for Chrome

Google engineer Christian Stefansen has released an online Amiga emulator! Although it only works with the desktop Chrome browser, not mobile. But, here’s hoping for mobile support, as it does raise some interesting possibilities for...

Star League Baseball splashscreen, AtariMania

Gamechanger – Star League Baseball

In 1983, a small software company in Santa Barbara, California, Gamestar, Inc., released a groundbreaking new baseball game – Star League Baseball.  The game itself was still simple.  Two teams, still no leagues or...

Workbench 2.x Mouse Pointer

Amiga Workbench v2.x Mouse Pointers for Windows

Ditch that boring Windows mouse pointer!  Relive a simpler time, when your computer was fun, full of wonder and amazement.  It’s time to get that back with the Amiga Workbench 2.x animated mouse pointer/cursor...

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...