From the mid-1980’s through the early 1990’s, the technical capabilities of Amiga computers made them the system-of-choice for members of the demoscene. By 1993, the PC had caught up to the Amiga, and surpassed it...
When older Macs would boot up and everything was running great, you’d see a smiley faced “Happy Mac”. However, if the computer crashed, users would get the “Sad Mac” screen. The downloadable ZIP file...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
