I never liked the gray, gimme the blue and white

[koaftder]

That is what I was raised on GUI wise back in the 80's. Parents moved to NC in '89 from Ft. Worth Texas. Never saw another amiga in the wild since then other than what I snatched on ebay. Not a fan of the bleak grayness in subsequent versions.

[Dragster]

Don't you miss orange too? :-)

[koaftder]

Don't you miss orange too? :-)

Yup, I love it. I used that a1k until 1993. It was the only machine I knew until then.

[save2600]

I agree! I love the look and feel of the original Workbench. I don't understand how some think it looks less professional. Gray is drab, boring and depressing. I guess not unlike a lot of office jobs. lol

[koaftder]

Yup, I love it. I used that a1k until 1993. It was the only machine I knew until then.

I agree! I love the look and feel of the original Workbench. I don't understand how some think it looks less professional. Gray is drab, boring and depressing. I guess not unlike a lot of office jobs. lol

workbench:

[motrucker]

I like 1.3 a lot too. I use my A1000 for old games, but that is also where most of my important data bases are kept - on Data Retrieve Pro and a few small er ones on bBase.
On my newer machine, I don't keep it grey - far to depressing

[cha05e90]

...this why I sometimes use this on OS4.1:

[yorgle]

YES.  {Blue, White, Orange, Black} > {Gray, light blue, white, black}

[tokyoracer]

Mouse cursor looks better too then the usual more pointy one from later Workbenches.

[save2600]

That's it, I'm going back to 1.3 and not looking back! lmao  

Too bad WHDLoad isn't 1.3 compatible. Or the 2060 for that matter    :lol:

[Dragster]

...this why I sometimes use this on OS4.1:

Yah, you can use the classic theme for OS4.1..  doesn't look that bad.. but the mixed icons (big os4.1)... mmm, dunno,  would be awesome if there were an os1.x iconset

Cheers,

Dragster

[bloodmoney]

My favorite retro GUI like thingy.

http://edu.i-lo.tarnow.pl/inf/hist/002_gui/images/c64geos17.gif

That's the look Amiga should have had.

[stefcep2]

noooooo!!

1.x is amateur hour.

Blues, greys, the 3D effect of buttons, scroll bars, scroll arrows give a very stylish, clean, uncluttered look.  Sure 3.x stock icons are not much visually, but thats easy to fix with Magic WB.  Always loved the consistency of Magic WB:  a drawer looks like a drawer, and they are all instantly recognisable, and I like the "stone" 3d look to it all.  And its fast.

You can have your 32 bit 3D rendered icons, but I bet when you have a hard drive full of different ones, it all looks like scrambled eggs, and you then have to ignore the icon coz you don't know what the hell it supposed to represent, and look at the name underneath it, with the icon becoming nothing more than the place you click, defeating the whole purpose of having a GUI.

Over the years, I've lost interest in GUI eye candy, and just want speed and functionality: hence I'm installing the stock 3.1, 4 colour GUI, which is a speed demon, and just does the job.

[Cammy]

I don't think it would be very hard to make a Workbench 1.3 theme for Workbench 3.x using VisualPrefs, Birdie, FullPalette and WBPattern.

[Karlos]

I don't think it would be very hard to make a Workbench 1.3 theme for Workbench 3.x using VisualPrefs, Birdie, FullPalette and WBPattern.

I'm pretty sure it has been done, actually.