Step28: Amiga OS (Workbench 1.3)

28 Sep, 1989 | Demo

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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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.