Workbench Builds.

[Bazzietuk]

Does anyone have a complete list of workbench builds people have done for emulators? Complete workbenches with add-ons etc (to add bling) or make it look and feel more like windows for instance without needing too high level of resources. Preferably running on a stock A1200 emulated on WinUAE.

I've tried a few but would like a complete list of other builds to try in HDF images or using ADF to install to a virual hard drive file on WinUAE.

I've tried most of the ClassicWB ones and ones through a usergroup on Facebook by Zebs build (which is quite good), just wondering if there's better ones out there using true colour icons/backgrounds etc.

Please list and link to the images to try and add a screenshot if possible.

[Seiya]

on stock A1200 it runs only Workbench 3.0/3.1 with very few add-ons. To see nice workbench you need RTG system, much Fast RAM and fast processors (68040/68060)
you can try AmigaSYS 4 or Amikit, but as said to have very good satisfaction you must have very fast Amiga or very fast emulated Amiga.

Amigasys4 is totally free:
https://www.amigasys.net/

Amikit is not more free:
https://www.amikit.amiga.sk/store

[Bazzietuk]

Got Amigasys4 working quite impressed with a lot of it and it works fine after updating WHDLoad to the latest version.

Seems to work quicker than the Zebs one I was using before even on the same spec emulated Amiga as that one.

Any others to add to the list?

[pixie]

Originally Posted by Bazzietuk

Got Amigasys4 working quite impressed with a lot of it and it works fine after updating WHDLoad to the latest version.

Seems to work quicker than the Zebs one I was using before even on the same spec emulated Amiga as that one.

Any others to add to the list?

You have AIAB, ClassicWB

[andy2004]

selya your links..

1. top one.. untrusted website.. The certificate expired on 29 October 2022 06:28. The current time is 18 June 2024 15:19.

2. no link to the free version.. only the paid one.. and using the latest browser i can.. telling me my browser is OLD.. outdated.. it was updated on Saturday.

[SkulleateR]

Originally Posted by andy2004

selya your links..

1. top one.. untrusted website.. The certificate expired on 29 October 2022 06:28. The current time is 18 June 2024 15:19.

Jup, the website hasn´t been updated for a long time and so is the certificate ... Amigasys is still working fine, so what ?

2. no link to the free version.. only the paid one.. and using the latest browser i can.. telling me my browser is OLD.. outdated.. it was updated on Saturday.

There is no free version anymore ...

[Dunny]

Originally Posted by SkulleateR

There is no free version anymore ...

Version 10, Pay what you want: https://www.amikit.amiga.sk/x

[SkulleateR]

Originally Posted by Dunny

Version 10, Pay what you want: https://www.amikit.amiga.sk/x

Wasn't aware of that, thanks ...

[Bazzietuk]

Tried AIAB and ClassicWB. Wasn't too impressed with them personally but thank you for mentioning those

[mrv2k]

You could try Amiga Game Selector. It's available for WinUAE, A500 Mini, Raspberry Pi, Retroarch/Mister, Amiga A1200/4000 and PiStorm32. An ECS/OCS version will be out in a few weeks as well.

https://www.amigagameselector.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/share/dfKx4kYjr6KTvg2f/



It comes with a very comprehensive WHDLoad game launcher as well.

[cloverskull]

Wow, I hadn't heard of Amiga Game Selector. Pretty neat. Thanks for sharing.

[Calabazam]

I have heard of AGS but actually i haven't understood what it is about. I thought it was something like booting directly in a game selection menu.
But it is in real a whole workbench?

[iRonNuke]

Originally Posted by Calabazam

I have heard of AGS but actually i haven't understood what it is about. I thought it was something like booting directly in a game selection menu.
But it is in real a whole workbench?

Actually both. You can get a game selection menu. But also boot into a Workbench. Quite nice actually.

[Bazzietuk]

26Gb seems quite big for an installation of Workbench. Even ClassicWB with all the Whdload games installed doesn't come to more than 8Gb on my system so not sure what would make Amiga Game Selector so big.

[mrv2k]

This is the extra stuff you get...

5162 WHDload games and demos with screen, title and cover images.
530 hand picked non WHDLoad games including PD, AGA and RTG games.
52 Premium Games
3266 ROM's and Disk/Tape images for the included emulators.
29 Workbench Games
120 Office, Rendering, Art, Design, Fractal, Music, Programming and Web apps.
11,000 IFF sound samples
1,500 Instruments
57,000 SID tunes
36,000 MOD's.
40 Animations.
1,500 Amiga images.

This is why it's so big.

The ECS version is only 8gb as it doesn't have any of the extra stuff.

[Seiya]

i downloaded and yes the final size are 52 GB (26 GB is zip archive). Actually i think it is the best Amiga games compilation around. Maybe for some aspect could be not the more complete, but about games is better than any other solutions that seem obsolete compared to this one.

Very good job for the author of this great compilation!