What is the Amiga Graphics Archive?

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The Amiga Graphics Archive (amiga.lychesis.net) is a curated online gallery dedicated to graphics made with or for the Commodore Amiga home computer. It is worth browsing if you are interested in Amiga pixel art, game graphics, logos, or the demo and scene culture around the platform, and if you want a hand-picked collection rather than a general file repository. The site describes itself as aiming for high-quality and rare pixel art images, and it has been running for nearly two decades, with updates still being posted.

What the site covers

The archive organizes Amiga graphics into several browsable categories, based on the site's own navigation:

  • Applications – graphics produced with Amiga software
  • Artists – work grouped by creator
  • Games – game-related imagery
  • Logos – company and brand logos, including animated ones
  • Publications – scans and images from Amiga books and magazines
  • Sceners – graphics tied to the demo/scene community
  • Specials – themed or one-off collections

There are also editorial Articles, including topics such as a comparison piece, "Cyber Assault 556," display technology, Extra Half Bright, and screen modes.

Why the Amiga matters here

The site's own introduction explains the premise: the Commodore Amiga launched in 1985 with graphics capabilities described as unsurpassed for its time, built on a set of custom chips that let it do things other personal computers of the era could not. The archive exists to preserve the visual output of that hardware and its community.

How it is curated

Two things distinguish this from a raw image dump:

  1. Selection – the stated goal is a curated gallery of high-quality and rare pixel art, not an exhaustive archive.
  2. Restoration – the site has restored images found in poor condition. In a June 2026 update marking 18 years online, it added a Jim Sachs image called Multimedia that had been found badly scaled and was brought "pretty close to its original state."

Updates are posted regularly, and recent entries show the range of activity: a single-image month drawing on artists already in the archive, a large batch of logos from Rainbow Arts, reLINE, and Titus, and page scans from Das Grosse Amiga Jahrbuch 1987.

Practical notes

  • Language: English.
  • Cost: The site does not state any pricing or login requirement. Nothing in the available material indicates paid access, but treat that as unconfirmed rather than a guarantee of free, unrestricted use.
  • Rights: Images are noted as copyrighted to their respective owners and credited where possible. If you plan to reuse anything, check the individual attribution rather than assuming the archive grants rights.
  • Contact: The site lists a contact address in the form amiga at lychesis dot net for issues or suggestions.
  • Following updates: Social links are provided for Mastodon, Facebook, Twitter, and an RSS feed.

Who it is for

This is a reference and appreciation resource, not a software download site. It suits retro-computing enthusiasts, pixel artists studying Amiga-era technique, researchers looking for period graphics or publication scans, and anyone tracing the work of specific Amiga artists or game companies. If you need original files to run on emulated hardware, this is not that kind of archive; if you want to see and study the images themselves, it is a focused starting point.