Step28: Amiga OS (Workbench 1.3)

Workbench

On Amiga 500, the graphical OS was not in RAM. That means you can boot a disk and run a game and use the full memory (nearly). You can also add only the component you want on your disk and have a minimalist environment.

Here is the famous screen when an Amiga 500 is turned on, and no floppy is inserted.

If you want the full OS, you need to boot on the Workbench floppy disks.

Features

User could redefined all icons of the interfaces.

Video of the workbench loading and test of speech synthesis

Comparaison with existing OS

Windows 1.0

Apple Lisa

 

Links:

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/AmigaOS_version_history

http://www.exelvision.com/musee/ordis/commodore/amiga/hardware/photos.htm

(french) http://obligement.free.fr/articles/workbench_13.php

Cool demo of that time

You already saw the madonna part in another article, here is the full mega demo, nice musics and 3D

Crionics: Megademo

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