Category: Software

 Now you can turn off your Pegasos 2 next-gen Amiga from the workbench!
As lame as it sounds I have actually been quite annoyed that I can not shut off my next-gen Pegasos 2 based AmigaOS 4.1 system from the Workbench. I mean this is not a classic AT-system with an old school mechanic on-off switch, [...]

AmigaOS 4.1 is not vintage or retro so you might wonder why such topic is the matter of the day here in the underground bunkers of Vintage Amiga Hardware Blog?
Yours loyally have been using AmigaOS 4.1 for two weeks now and it hit me today that 4.1 is just as much retro as Workbench 3.1 [...]

Today I launched my latest Amiga blog called ”Vintage Amiga Programs”. The last two years have seen me focusing mainly only on Amiga hardware but I think it is time for me to also get back into Workbench again.
There are many programs I have grown fond of in Workbench so it would be nice to [...]

I remember how difficult it used to be to set up a new Amiga before WinUAE enabled Amiga formatted hard drives to be mounted under the emulator.Workbench 3.5 and 3.9 came on a CD-rom but previous version of Amiga Workbench came on floppies. 

Just yesterday I picked up an A4000 I bought from the net. My last Amiga 4000 had a broken floppy controller and came in an ugly Elbox tower, I much prefer stock A4000 desktop cases so I had to get one of those instead. Today OS4 came in the mailbox so currently I am installing [...]

If you havent lived under a rock for the last couple of months you probably know that OS4 (aka Workbench 4.0) is going to be released november 30 this year for Amiga computers with a PowerPC turbo board.