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Screenshots from Workbench 1.0.

First run

First run in Workbench 1.0. The screenshot has an extra border (remove)(show).

Empty desktop

Empty desktop in Workbench 1.0. The screenshot has an extra border (remove)(show).

Workbench 1.0 supports only one resolution: NTSC 640×200 (doubled in height here to compensate for strange apect ratio). At first launch it only shows the menu bar/status line (here with operating system version and free memory), icon for the inserted disk, and two controls for navigating between screens.

Desktop with applications

Desktop with applications in Workbench 1.0. The screenshot has an extra border (remove)(show).

Shown here are two drawers (Workbench name for directories), as well as clock and two of the three included demonstration programs. The demos seem very simple nowadays (one drawing dots, second lines and third boxes), but in 1985 were amazing testament to Amiga true multitasking.

Notepad

Notepad in Workbench 1.0 (Amiga Notepad 1.5)
Notepad in Workbench 1.0 (Amiga Notepad 1.5)

Text editor
Calculator
Calendar

This GUI doesn’t have these features.

Clock

Clock in Workbench 1.0 (Clock 1.9)

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

This GUI doesn’t have this feature.

Settings menu

This GUI doesn’t have this feature.

General

General in Workbench 1.0 (Preferences)
General in Workbench 1.0 (Preferences)

First edition of Workbench featured an all-in-one preferences panel with appearance, display, keyboard, mouse, date/time and communications settings all rolled into one window.

Appearance

This feature can be found in the General section.

Desktop themes

This GUI doesn’t have this feature.

Display

This feature can be found in the General section.

Screensaver

This GUI doesn’t have this feature.

Keyboard

This feature can be found in the General section.

Mouse

Mouse in Workbench 1.0 (Preferences)
Mouse in Workbench 1.0 (Preferences)

Apart from mouse speed and double-click settings in the general settings panel, Workbench 1.0 allowed creating own mouse cursors.

Time and date

This feature can be found in the General section.

International
Accessibility
Power management

This GUI doesn’t have these features.

Application manager

Application manager in Workbench 1.0

The bar on the left of the window shows the free space on the floppy disk. Also worth noticing are icons of different sizes (Workbench since the very beginning allowed for every program and document to have its own attached icon of arbitrary size).

File manager

This GUI doesn’t have this feature. Workbench has no designated file manager. To view all the files (not only those with icons), one must drop to CLI (Command Line Interface).

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 1.0 (Trashcan)
Trash can in Workbench 1.0 (Trashcan)

Run

This GUI doesn’t have this feature.

Command prompt

Command prompt in Workbench 1.0 (CLI (Command Line Interface))

Welcome splash

Welcome splash in Workbench 1.0. The screenshot has an extra border (remove)(show) and wrong aspect ratio (correct)(ignore).

The first version of the famous splash screen of Amiga 1000’s operating system was stored on a separate Kickstart disk. Later Amigas featured Kickstart in ROM.