If only I had that video 30 years ago.

Click2Front is the bestest commodity ever ! :)

Thanks. Covid got me re-interested in my Amiga. I always wondered why the Workbench screen could scroll down. For multitasking. The rest is pretty much self explanatory if you have used computers as long as I've been using them. (since 1988). A little funny side story, Back in the 90s I went to a career day for school and I met this guy who told me about this new invention called optic fiber. I went home and told my parents about how good it is for fast transfer of data. And all it's future uses. In Australia back in 2010 Australia started doing fiber to the home, and now I can watch a movie theater quality movie on my tv in the lounge room. We have come so far because of the technology from 1985 onwards.

I used to consider myself an Amiga guru in the 90s, but had completely forgotten everything by now. After watching this, I now understand how much I’d overestimated my Amiga abilities, having learned several things I never knew about back in the day. Thank you for creating this series!

I still own 3 amiga500s from the late 80s..all boxed and stored..i tend to emulate these days on linux..great video thanks.

Thanks, that really showed alot about the power of the Amiga. All of this in 1985! Also amazing that a huge update came in 2018 to give the classic a little more life.

Probably the most useful Amiga video I've seen in a long time. I've used my Amiga since 1993 and still learnt a fair bit from this. Oh and Amiga displaying multiple resolutions at one time on the same screen makes my head hurt just thinking about it. Can't wait for the next part.

Fantastic video just what I was after, last time I touched an Amiga I was a teenager and wasn't interested in anything but games didn't even know what to do with the workbench. Its like relearning everything I didn't know about the Amiga.

I'm new amiga user. I've purchased a broken A500, Repaired it, and i'm trying to learn something about it. And this beginners tutorial is super useful to me.

So cool. I remember. Amiga was the best on its time.

Greetings from Greece!!! Thank you for this wonderful tutorial!!!

Thanks for taking the time to do this Doug. It's greatly appreciated (y)

Really enjoyed your easy to follow video, thanks!

Getting back into amiga after more than 20 years. Just realised how much I've forgotten. Subbed. Great videos on this channel. Thanks.

I just started to learn AmigaOS & this was a great introduction video, looking forward to the other parts. Thank you so much!

Great video! This should be required reading for anyone getting into the Amiga. I wish I had seen this earlier; had to learn the hard way :P

Thank you for this simple video that permits to new users to show in a very didactic way how Workbench works and that offers a good reminder for all those who have not used the Workbench for years. Of course Workbench can't be compared to modern OS nowadays but it was more revolutionary and powerful that it seems back in the 90's as a lot of us just used it to quickly launch apps or games installed on HDD. The 'onion peels' system remembers a lot what we now use on our smartphone to swap from a screen to another, isn't it? Even with old Workbench 1.3 in 1990, Amiga was already doing this. Just try. You can launch Delitracker for exemple to play music on WB screen, load some games like Sim City and Shanghaï, Then Deluxe Paint IV to display a 640x512 picture, a word processor in 1280x512 (if you have at least ECS) and why not a slideshow using Visage or PPShow. As long as you got memory, you can continue like this and if you slide public screens using the toolbars, you will see all these resolutions and hundreds of colours on your monitor! Amazing when you think about the other OS of the same area. Nowadays, we can say that we are very lucky to have such an operating system to enjoy all that the Amiga can offer: pictures, musics, videos, demos, games ...

Thanks for the info Doug 😀

Very useful guide. Nice and clear. Learnt a few things about workbench. Look forward to more videos.

Thanks Doug... this video was extremely helpful. I had A500 at the days back but only for games...floppy in floppy out. Now when i have ACA500+, i can finally start playing with WorkBench.

Another great Video Doug. I'm always amazed by how advanced the Amiga OS was in it's day (even today to be honest). Back then the other camp was using MS-DOS and windows 3 and then 3.1 which just pales in comparison. It was only when Windows 95 came out in erm, 1995 that things started to shift although I still prefer AmigaOS 3.1 it was only when I started using Windows 2000 in 2001 for work that I thought that the tides had changed.But the simple elegance and efficacy of the Amiga OS still stayed with me. I think your video gracefully impressed upon me that fact more than any other.

Great guide Doug. An old Amiga nut, but you taught me some new things today. Bring the next one on.

Getting back to the Amiga, after a 20+ year away from the OS this was a wonderful refreshing guide, with a lot of great tricks I didn't know of (like the overscan feature... I didn't understand that in my youth. and I used a consumer TV as screen, or how commodities were supposed to be used) Awesome stuff. congrats of having the best workbench guide on KZfaq! :D

Excellent video, I will be binge watching the series and I am now getting back in love with my A1200 and A600 after many years away. Thank you.

Awesome episode Douglas. Workbench rules

Thanks a lot because i am a beginner on Amiga and these videos are very usefull and very nice to see

I always wanted to make these videos. Thank you!

I never knew about leave out and put away! What a revelation!

We like your videos Doug. We also host them in our blog :D

I got an Amiga 600 back in 1994 at my 10th birthday. And seeing this, it strikes me how easy it was to use. Put in the disc and the game was running. Put another disk in and you could write an essay. You didn't need to know anything about computers, it was pretty easy going. At that time I didn't understand what Workbench was used for, because in school - which was the only computers I knew about - we had an entirely different operating system. And I remember that I found it odd, that in school we had to use one programme to acces another, when at home I could just slide in a floppy... But it's kind of amazing that the Amiga Workbench could do all of these things back in 1985. I mean, I've never found a way of drawing my own icons in windows haha :D What I'm trying to say is thank you - I now know what Workbench actually is, could have used that information 25 years ago ;-)

I thought I had a pretty good handle on AmigaOS but I learned a few new things watching this, particularly about how commodities work. Thank you!

This is one great tutorial, thank you. I like the relaxed pace and your calm and clear, teacher-like way of explaining things. In a rush of nostalgia, I'm just getting back to the Amiga 500 and this video is a big help. I didn't mess around with Workbench that much back in the day, as I used my Amiga mostly for gaming. Now I got four 500s in various states of restoration (three of them work just fine) and I bought an Indivision ACA500 Plus, that has the Workbench 3.1 on it. I thought I'd breeze through the installation of WHDload, among few other applications and be on my way playing games in no time. Seems like I was wrong and need help like this, to even begin to know what I'm doing! Now the Workbench is starting to look more and more interesting in itself.

Nice explanation! Thnx I rediscovered my '93 A1200 which I used heavily back in the days, but forgot most of the functionality, although I still have my original manuals

Great video! I wish I would have known some of this stuff back in the day! Looking forward to other videos!

Great video Doug. I had forgotten much more than I remembered. This series is going to be very useful teaching me the ropes again 😄

Great Video Doug ,been waiting for someone to finally do this type of video. look forward to the next one :)

This is exactly what I needed for my new Amiga 500! Thanks Doug!

great, looking forward to see the next episode :-)

Excellent video

Cool video Doug!! Even for an amga long-timer there's something to learn.

You should ALWAYS use Directory Cache on a floppy. Makes things MUCH faster.

Loved the video! I'm really looking forward to more in the series. Thank so much for putting these together! 😍

Good timing Doug, now I've got a real life Amiga again, all these reminders are particularly pertinent! I'm using WB2.05 but other than Multiview and data types, pretty much everything is relevant!

Excellent work Doug! Made me remember again just how much I despised Windows 95 when I made the move to the PC world. :)

Great video Doug! I always think of myself of being a pretty competent user from right back in the day but there were definitely points here that I either I didn't know about or had entirely forgotten. Cool. Looking forward to the next one!

Very helpful (coming from the Atari ST), it was a system made with love and it shows ! The multitasking part is impressive. Thanks a lot!

Excellent beginners (or 're-learners') tutorial. The production quality of this is really good with a great picture and sound quality, and really well explained! Thanks so much for posting. Have subscribed.

I'm looking forward to the next episode already and I've only got half way through the first one :-)

IMO the most powerful part of AOS is the liitle known, 256 level "Priority" tool type. The OS multitasks/context switches so fast, you can set a crunching app, like Imagine, or two or three or a thousand crunching apps, below the priority of normal apps else and number crunch at full speed with absolutely zero impact on the overall OS environment and normal application usability. By comparison, Windows 10 completely shuts down, even the crunching app itself becomes unusable. AOS is still 100 years ahead.

Hi. I am a new A500 user. I have my Amiga from 12.2021 :)

Hi doug ! for ""snapshot all", i was thinking it was take a snapshoot of all workbench destop ! thanks for this very usefull and well explain with your great voice for help this little guys ^^, i will go forward the next episode ! , i think i saw you on AmigaBill Live ah ah ! , have a nice days.

You say you don't need to use FFS with floppies, but this allows more Information to be stored. I found this out transferring an FFS floppy to an OFS floppy for use on WB1.3 - not all the files would fit! I have both A500 with 1.3 and an A1200 with WB3.1. Thanks for uploading - I had forgotten most of this, having come back to the Amiga after many years as you envisage!. Maybe you can do a video under WB1,3, mentioning the ARP project and messydos etc? I have tried WB2 on the A500, but too many problems, so I am keeping it 1.3 and truly retro! Got the A1200 for anything that needs WB2+. Thanks for taking the trouble to make this video.

I also appreciate hearing the order of os version release as i find it confusing coming back to the Amiga. Fyi (for readers) it's: 1.2,1.3, 2.0, 2.04, 3.0, 3.1 (last official commodore version). Then 3.5, 3.9 and finally 3.1.4. there is also v4.1 now but it operates on powerpc processors (which the current generation of Amigas run on) so won't run on pc/winuae, etc sadly.

Amiga 3.1, rocks

Yeah Amiga is multitasking, but without memory protection, productivity use was...interesting, especially if software developers did not care to write code according to official guidelines. Guru started meditating fast :D

Oh man. Just bought an Amiga 500 at a local retro shop, since I miss the hell out of the amazing games I grew up with. But all these technical terms and different upgrades is all just greek to me. I just wanna play some games. lol I have no discs at all though, so I guess I have to figure it out.

Awesome, I'm going into this still not knowing how to sort and save icons. Fingers crossed.

33:40 I always knew my computer was abusing me on a daily basis, it's always giving me the middle finger ;)

Thanks for that. I am one of the original users who completely forgot how to do the basics in workbench. I appreciate your video. Thanks also for the reminder and demonstration of how amazing the Amiga was at multitasking and displaying multiple resolutions simultaneously! Shame commodore weren't so good at business management otherwise we would be using much better computers there's days! Back in the day I heard that the Amiga was 8 times more efficient than a pc and i know it could do alot more. The potential was wasted by pathetic companies buying up the Amiga and doing nothing with it (or was it how the conspiracies go? - that the companies bought it to shut it down and thus remove their own pc competition?). If so that should be made unlawful.

Cool vid, my older cousin had one of these but I never got to use it myself. Next time maybe consider some audio processing -- a de-esser can help smooth out harshness in your audio capture.

nice tutorial! looking forward for more! active window title bar background colour is a bit dark, very hard to read! :D

Yo Doug! At the 23:30 mark you showed how to disable FastMEM. I haven’t used 3.1 in a long time. I do use that feature in 1.3 a LOT when I play Rogue (several times each week, no lie, in OS 1.3). In 1.3, you don’t have to reboot the machine to get your Fast RAM back. All you have to do is go back and double-click that icon again and it will re-enable the RAM right then and there. It’s not intuitive at all, but it works. I bet 3.1 works the same way, but I can’t test it for ya. Peace! P.S. Definitely getting a Casey Kasem vibe on that voice! :D

Thank you so much for this episode. I haven't been using an amiga since the '90s so I definitely need a refresher! Is it possible for you to change the colours on your Workbench to make it easier to read e.g. window names? Basically just the fourth colour really. Perhaps use the default 2.0 colour scheme? Looking forward to the next episode :)

Remembering this beautiful OS I suddenly remember how disappointed I was with MS windows

Also, 3.1 was never released by Commodore. It was released by a third party, possibly Newtek, my memory is fading haha.

This was more like the 42 minute Retro Cast.

I would accidentally, on purpose, make my IBM loving friends, grind their teeth, when watching what the Amiga could to. Oh, the fun days.

Thanks for making this. I just finished recapping my A500. I am likely going to get the ACA500 Plus so I can have an "hdd". Way back when I had an A4000/040. I miss it. :) Question: You mentioned upgrading from OCS to ECS on an OCS 500. How do I do that? Thanks in advance for any info you can share.

I did not know it at time. I wish I had GEM on the Atari St.

I've restored and sold many Amigas. I never keep them as I do find the emulation more than acceptable. However...seeing the real machines in use with your videos and others....oh boy...maybe some regrets.

Doug.. what could cause disk icon not to dissappear from WorkBench even if CF-card is unplugged. System is also nagging for missing disk if card is not plugged In when WorkBench is loaded.

I have the Pimiga 3 image (Chris Edwards) on a Pi 400 using my Samsung 4K TV, via mini hdmi to hdmi cable that came with the Pi 400. I am getting overscan so the outer part of the screen is missing, so I only see 90% of the screen, any ideas on how to fix?

It's true. I used to know my Amigas inside out, all the hacks and kludges etc. Now I remember almost nothing.

Awesome. Looking forward to the next video.I just purchased 2 Amigas. A 2000 and a 500. My original 500 from 1990 has been gone for ages. I am now restoring these two. I was just thinking while watching this that I used to have to modify a text doc when I copied a program to my hdd. Am I remembering right? I do hope you will cover that. Subscribed...

Is there a list of Amiga commands and their DOS/Windows equivalents?

I got all excited about ClickToFront, NoClick and the whole WBStartup drawer, but it seems I'm having issues with them. First of all, ClickToFront does nothing on my system. I can get NoClick to work by double clicking the icon, but putting it in the WBStartup drawer and booting up the Amiga doesn't run it. I didn't try the startup thing with anything else. Any ideas?

I found one in my addict

Hey is it possible to use a networked printer in 3.1? I have an ACA500+ with the X-Surf adapter.

If I use Amiga Explorer to copy and view Amiga files onto the PC, will I then be able to run and view them using an Amiga emulator such as Amiga Forever?

Can you format this and put Windows XP on it? Cause that looks like GEOS on a Commodore C=64

Hi! I have Kickstart 1.3 in my Amiga 500 OCS. Is it possible for me to run Workbench 2.X? I've seen conflicting information here and there, and I'm wondering if it's worth the effort to try to find a 2.X Workbench for download somewhere.

Whatever happened to AmigaOS 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8?

What is your opinion about amiga 3.5,3.9, amiga 4.01

When I click snapshot/all it never remembers each time I reboot. Any ideas why? I'm running 3.1.4 with KS ROMs.

I thought if you double clicked no fast mem again it turned it back on. I might be wrong it's been a while.

Hello ! I have 3000 Amiga in my retrocomputer collection.. What software can you advive me to try on it, besides games.... Like for making music, 3d animation, etc... What realyIl creative can I realy can do on it... I have 2+8mb ram on it, gotek and SCSI_>SD device..

So.. I have to ask... why is a "10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast"n 42m21s long?

What's better? 3.1 + BetterWB or 3.1.4?

Subscribed! Workbench maybe an older OS but I still think that the basis of Workbench is still way better then crappy Windows!! I am not a fan of Windows! At first Windows runs smooth with a fresh installed OS, but after a while it starts to slow down. Which OS makes it possible to fit on a 3.5" floppydisk! Amiga Workbench! Try to do that with Windows! Windows is strongly build around the Windows register and I think there lies the problem of Windows. When the register grows, gets fragmented , Windows gets slower and slower and crashes a lot. Windows screens freezes and don't respond anymore. Never understood why Windows has the monopoly in the world regarding computer operating systems???

i used floppy, and never saw the point of loading the workbench stuff. Floppy straight to the games 😊

I liked 1.3 much more than 2.0 and 3.0/3.1.

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They are not FOLDERS they are DRAWERS. Jay would be spinning In his grave.

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