Amiga Workbench v1.2 Startup/Boot screen Wallpaper

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

The “Insert the Workbench 1.2 Disk” boot up screen from the Commodore Amiga.

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 Amiga became a much more stable fairly quickly.  You really only needed to keep copies of v1.0 or 1.1 around for the handful of the early Electronic Arts games that refused to work under v1.2+.

The downloadable ZIP file contains the famous “Hand with the Workbench Disk” screenshots in the original 320×480 format, as well as:  480×800 & 640×960 (great for smartphones), 1024×768 & 1280×800 (for iPad’s and tablets), 1440×900, 1600×1200, 720P and 1080P.

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Mike Knotts

Mike Knotts was born in 1968 in a small town in southern Indiana. Even when very young, Mike showed a love for all-things technical and sci-fi. Moving with his family to California in the early 80's, he eventually graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in History. Rather than put that to good use, Mike continued to pursue his passion for technology by working for early, regional ISP's in the mid 1990's. He currently resides in the Pacific Northwest, where he works as a project manager for an Internet startup. Mike is a co-founder of Geekometry.

4 Responses

  1. TheKhakinator says:

    Hey, does anyone know what font the “Work bench” text on the disk is in?

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