Amiga Desktops Worth Seeing

One of the things I miss most about the Amiga workbench is variable size icons.

I love them, and miss them

That giant battletech icon before you play that fantastic turn based hexagonal game, or the Amos basic icon, there was just so much opportunity for fun.

Ever since then I occasionally try and make it happen on vanilla OS’s, without success.

Them I just realised I’ve been a dev forever, and various desktop environments on Linux have been open forever, it might be time for me to try one last time. It may never take off, but I would love to see it :D

https://www.sarna.net/news/mechcombat-from-ralph-h-reed/amp/

> Uploaded by someone using the alias "xterm", this high resolution (1536x964) Workbench is notable for several reasons. First of all, the desktop is very big for 1993, but the actual viewable area would have been something like 768x482.

A nitpick: I had a Picasso II graphics card, which was release in '93, and it natively supported 1600x1280 resolution. I didn't post that screenshot but it's completely possible that the uploader viewed it directly at that size.

I own an Amiga but I was never an Amiga user back in the day. I can just about navigate Intuition though.

I would love an AmigaOS desktop environment to run under AmiWM to make a Linux box feel like a Miggy. I'm puzzled it's clever been done.

Nice icon for Ced, aka Cygnus Ed, I'm thinking. Such a great and fast editor..