How Is the Amiga Graphics Archive Organized?

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The Amiga Graphics Archive is organized as a curated gallery rather than a searchable database. Its main navigation splits the collection into seven categories — Applications, Artists, Games, Logos, Publications, Sceners, and Specials — and a separate Articles section covers technical topics like Comparison, Display Technology, Extra Half Bright, and Screen modes. A dated Updates feed records what was added and when, so you can follow the archive chronologically instead of browsing by category.

Main categories

The site's primary navigation lists these sections:

  • Applications — graphics tied to specific Amiga software.
  • Artists — work grouped by the people who made it.
  • Games — game-related graphics.
  • Logos — company and product logos, including animated ones.
  • Publications — images drawn from printed material, such as book scans.
  • Sceners — graphics from the demoscene.
  • Specials — themed or one-off collections.

This structure means you pick a lens first (who made it, what it was for, where it appeared) and then browse within it. There is no keyword search box described on the page, so finding a specific image depends on knowing which category it would fall under.

Articles and technical topics

Alongside the image categories, the archive publishes short articles on Amiga display topics:

  • Comparison
  • Cyber Assault 556
  • Display Technology
  • Extra Half Bright
  • Game Companies
  • Screen modes

These sit apart from the galleries and explain hardware or software behavior rather than presenting artwork. If you want context for why a particular image looks the way it does, this is the section to read first.

The Updates feed

The Updates section is a reverse-chronological log of additions. Each entry pairs a date with a description of what was added. Examples from the page:

  • 01.07.2026 — a single-image month with additional images from artists already in the archive.
  • 25.06.2026 — the archive's 18th anniversary, marked by adding Jim Sachs' Multimedia, restored from a badly scaled version.
  • 14.06.2026 — a large batch of logos from Rainbow Arts, reLINE, and Titus, including animated ones.
  • 12.05.2026 — more images from Das Grosse Amiga Jahrbuch 1987, including page scans.

Because the archive grows in batches, the Updates feed is the fastest way to see what is new without re-checking every category.

How to browse it

  1. Decide what you are looking for: a specific artist, a game, a company logo, or a publication.
  2. Open the matching category from the main navigation.
  3. If you do not know the category, scan the Updates feed for recent additions, which often name the source or collection.
  4. For background on display techniques, read the Articles section.

The site also links to social channels — Mastodon, Facebook, Twitter, and an RSS feed — so updates can be followed outside the site itself. Contact is by email, listed on the page as amiga at lychesis dot net.