Step48: Amiga OS (Workbench 2.0)

29 Dec 1991 | Operating system

Workbench 2.0

In 1990, the Amiga 3000 have been released. With that new computer (equiped with a faster CPU, the 68030) a new operating system have also been released: Workbench 2.0.

That operating system will also be on the others new machines: The amiga 500+ and the Amiga 600.

Here is the visual difference between workben 1.4 and 2.0

(picture from Stefan Egger page)

Content

As seen, the look is more modern. It requires ROM Kickstart 2.0.

The preferences are now divided into specific parts. ARexx scripting langage is added. New font system. Better memory management. A super hires resolution: 1280x512.

Workbench 2.0 represents a significant improvement, and the upcoming 3.0 version will build on these advancements. This is what the modern version of Workbench looks like on the Amiga.

Links

The Amiga museum: Workbench 2.0.

Cool demos of that time

Turmoil by sanity (december 1991)

Razor 1911 voyage (december 1991)

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About me

Hello. My name is Christophe KOHLER. Norn in 1973, I'm 50 year old (in 2024) and working as video game creator till 2000. When I was young, I've been involved in the Amiga demo scene during 9 years (from 1989 to 1998). I was 16 years old at the time and had really lot of fun using Amiga computers.
I took much pleasure writing these pages. First because it reminded some good memories. And secondly because I wanted to explain how the amiga computer worked and what have been our work on them.