There’s so much shit going on in the world right now, and we can all use a breather. So, let’s join Carl Svensson and look at some pretty Amiga Workbench screenshots.
Combining my love for screenshots with the love for the Amiga line of computers, I’ve decided to present a small, curated selection of noteworthy Amiga Workbenches – Workbench being the name of the Amiga’s desktop environment.
↫ Carl Svensson
I love how configurable and flexible the Amiga Workbench is, and how this aspect of it has been embraced by the Amiga community. All of these screenshots demonstrate a sense of purpose, and clearly reflect the kind of things their users do with their Amigas. I think “Graphics Card Workbench #1 (1997)” speaks to me the most, striking a great balance between the blocky, pixelated “old” Amiga look, and the more modern late ’90s/early ’00s Amiga look. The icon set in that one also vaguely reminds me of BeOS, which is always a plus.
That being said, all of them look great and are instantly recognisable as Amiga desktops, and make me wish I had a modern Amiga capable of running Amiga OS 4.
I always keep mine fairly plain, Like the first or second example. I find much more a bit distracting.
A modern hardware is coming:
THE A1200
It is not as good as teh recent Commodore 64. That one is FPGA reimplementation of actual hardware, and is compatible with basically all peripherals even audio chips.
This one is emulated, but comes with a full size, working keyboard, and some good support for software. Albeit emulated, it will have the workbench.
I’m not sure when it will ship, but I pre-ordered one.
My hope is that Commodore find a way to move on to the Amiga once the C64 sales start to slow, I have a C64 on the way but it’s the Amiga I really want, Then I can put all my old ones away safe. Bonus points if they remake the A4000 🙂 I know there are issues of licence or copyrights or something but I hope everyone involved would see that they would sell and benefit all.
MarkHughes,
Yes, that would be awesome.
And from what I hear, unfortunately those license and legal issues are real thorns in the road. Only actual success could convince others to cooperate (or sell rights)