MagicWB
Workbench enhancer for AmigaOS
MagicWB is a third-party Workbench enhancer for AmigaOS. It was developed in 1992-1997 by Martin Huttenloher.
01History
The idea to enhance Workbench arose when the author got bored with the gray and abstract icons provided by Commodore. The original Amiga icons could use only four colours and even those were scarcely used. The background patterns supplied with the operating system for Workbench were also minimal. Desire to develop a complete package to enhance Workbench look with a complete set of icons, background patterns, and new fonts was born.
02Features
The original Amiga icon sets supported only four colours. MagicWB extended the palette of icons to 8 colours allowing more colourful icons. MagicWB grew so popular that it became the de facto standard for many major third party packages developed for Amiga. One of those is MUI which used the MagicWB palette extensively in its GUI widget library.
| MagicWB palette | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colour | ||||||||
| Red | 149 | 000 | 255 | 59 | 123 | 175 | 170 | 255 |
| Green | 149 | 000 | 255 | 103 | 123 | 175 | 144 | 169 |
| Blue | 149 | 000 | 255 | 162 | 123 | 175 | 124 | 151 |
The design style in MagicWB was XEN. The package includes 9 replacement fonts (Topaz, XEN and Courier) and new background patterns for the Workbench desktop.
03Other Workbench enhancers
Sources and credits
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- MagicWB (logo).png by Unknown author, Fair use
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