Noob Workbench setup

[paul1981]

After a long hiatus and looking back at Amiga memories through rose tinted glasses I have decide to resurrect my machine(s). I have 2 Amiga's:

A500 Kickstart 1.3 + Action Replay MKIII
A1200 Kickstart 3.0 + Compact Flash IDE (4Gb) + Compact Flash PCMICA reader + 4Mb Fast Ram

I see all these flash Workbench screenshots with colourful icons and hires backgrounds and I'm wondering how I can have the same on my A1200. If I purchase a Kickstart 3.1 ROM will that help me get started?

I like AmigaSYS AGA:

http://amigasys.ultimateamiga.co.uk/amiga.html

That will work fine on 3.0 and with your CPU/RAM. Like others have said, no real need for 3.1 It's all down to personal preferences in the end though regarding which package to use. You could set up your own WB from scratch but it's a long long long job.

This may be of interest too, although it's 2 years out of date over:

http://lilliput.amiga-projects.net/TechDetails3.htm

Personally, I've always loved the MagicWB look. And nothing is more "classic Amiga" than MagicWB. Then again though, you state that you like the fancy new looks of a 21st century Workbench. I must be old fashioned. :elvis:

[paul1981]

So why no AmigaSYS for non AGA Amiga's?  Or am I not looking in the right place?

There isn't any AmigaSYS for OCS/ECS, unless you convert it yourself like mfilos did last year:

http://www.mfilos.com/2013/03/a600-fun-amigasys-testing-and-some.html

The reason might be that the developer didn't have a non-AGA Amiga, or maybe he couldn't get the wallpaper to look any good under OCS/ECS (more likely).