First run

First run in Workbench 2.04. The screenshot has an extra border (remove)(show).

Empty desktop

Empty desktop in Workbench 2.04. The screenshot has an extra border (remove)(show). The empty desktop for Workbench 2.04 contains the Workbench window with icons for floppy drive and RAM disk, and the message line (at this moment copyright notice) at the top of the screen, doubling as menu – similarly to Mac OS and NeXTSTEP, Workbench has only one menu for active application (per active screen), shown and operated using right mouse button. The desktop and other screenshots are shown in the default (if strange) 640×256 resolution, doubled in height to preserve aspect ratio. Default Amiga video hardware also provides an interlaced 640×512 mode, with the very same fonts and windows. (This applies to PAL version, the NTSC resolutions are 640×200 and 640×400 respectively.)

Desktop with applications

Desktop with applications in Workbench 2.04. The screenshot has an extra border (remove)(show). This screenshot presents the unique feature of Workbench, which is the ability of having the desktop divided vertically into screens with independent resolutions and colour depths. The Workbench screen is currently active, with a menu selection in progress. The Pointer Preferences screen is at the bottom of the desktop, but can be slided to the top at any time.

Notepad

Notepad in Workbench 2.04 (MicroEMACS 2.1). The screenshot has an extra border (remove)(show). Workbench features a Amiga port of MicroEMACS, which might be far more advanced than your regular notepad, but on the other hand is not most user-friendly text editor ever (all the commands are entered from command-line).

Text editor

This GUI doesn’t have this feature.

Calculator

Calculator in Workbench 2.04 (Calc)

Calendar

This GUI doesn’t have this feature.

Clock

Clock in Workbench 2.04 (Clock) The Workbench clock can be shown as analog or digital, with optional date, and also an alarm.

Address book

This GUI doesn’t have this feature.

Media player
CD player
Volume level
Sound

This GUI doesn’t have these features.

Terminal
Phone dialer

This GUI doesn’t have these features.

Browser
Mail

This GUI doesn’t have these features.

Keyboard map

Keyboard map in Workbench 2.04 (KeyShow)

Settings menu

Settings menu in Workbench 2.04 (Prefs)

General

This GUI doesn’t have this feature.

Appearance

Appearance in Workbench 2.04 (Pallette Preferences) While Workbench only used 4 colours, each of them could be customized.

Appearance in Workbench 2.04 (WBPattern Preferences)

Desktop themes

This GUI doesn’t have this feature.

Display

Display in Workbench 2.04 (ScreenMode Preferences) By default, PAL version of Amiga Workbench supplies two graphic modes: 640×256 and interlaced 640×512 (both in 4 colours). With appropriate amount of memory, colour depth can be changed to 3 and 4 bits (8 and 16 colours respectively), although that doesn’t improve the basic GUI appearance in any significant way.

Display in Workbench 2.04 (Overscan Preferences) Designed to run on TVs, Amiga let its users position and size its screen on a bigger surface, called overscan. Pressing any of the two buttons would launch the centering utility shown below.

Display in Workbench 2.04

Screensaver

This GUI doesn’t have this feature.

Keyboard

This feature can be found in the Mouse section.

Mouse

Mouse in Workbench 2.04 (Input Preferences)

Mouse in Workbench 2.04 (Pointer Preferences) Workbench is one of the rare GUIs that allows its users to draw their own mouse cursors. The colour scheme for the pointer is independent of that of the GUI itself.

Time and date

Time and date in Workbench 2.04 (Time Preferences)

International
Accessibility
Power management

This GUI doesn’t have these features.

Application manager

Application manager in Workbench 2.04 Pretty straightforward window (gone is the disk capacity indicator from Workbench 1.0), but worth noticing are icons of different sizes.

File manager

This GUI doesn’t have this feature. Workbench has no designated file manager, but the application manager can be used to view all the files, not only those with icons (as in case of Workbench 1.x).

Running applications
Task manager

This GUI doesn’t have these features.

Help
Search

This GUI doesn’t have these features.

Trash can

Trash can in Workbench 2.04 (Trashcan)

Run

Run in Workbench 2.04 (Execute a File)

Command prompt

Command prompt in Workbench 2.04 (AmigaShell)

Welcome splash

Welcome splash in Workbench 2.04. The screenshot has an extra border (remove)(show) and wrong aspect ratio (correct)(ignore). This splash screen is actually stored in ROM (Kickstart), but as Kickstart and Workbench (GUI) have to be kept paired, it might be seen as the part of the GUI itself. The diskette is repeatedly animated (sliding into the drive).

Login screen
Logout screen

This GUI doesn’t have these features.

Shutdown window

Shutdown window in Workbench 2.04

Shutting down
Shutdown complete

This GUI doesn’t have these features.

Welcome screen
Licence
File copying
Installation complete

These features are not yet documented on this site.

About GUI

About GUI in Workbench 2.04 Instead of basic version of the GUI, Workbench about dialog shows internal revisions of both Kickstart (ROM) and Workbench (user interface).

About application

About application in Workbench 2.04

Font selection

This feature is not yet documented on this site.

Open file

Open file in Workbench 2.04

Colour selector

This feature is not yet documented on this site.

Wrong password

This GUI doesn’t have this feature.