# Amiga Workbench × Cracktro — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=amiga-workbench+cracktro
# Amiga Workbench carries the structure and Cracktro appears as the accent.
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images that take their structure from Amiga Workbench (style, 1985–1996) and their accent from Cracktro (style, 1980s-1990s).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Amiga Workbench exists for: rebuilding a 1980s home computer screen as the third lineage, neither Macintosh nor Windows, or working under a four color limit where press and disabled states have to be carried by inverted light and dark rather than by hue. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Amiga Workbench

- A screen that uses four colors and no more, which are blue, white, orange and black
- A blocky bitmap face packed into a coarse 640 by 200 grid
- A full width title bar running across the top of the screen, with depth gadgets at its right end
- Live controls raised by a light line at the top left and a dark line at the bottom right, inverting to a sunken state when pressed

Composition: One full width title bar runs across the top of the screen and windows fill the space below. Windows may overlap freely, but screens never do, since they slide vertically as whole layers. Type and lettering: Set a monospaced bitmap face at its native size with no scaling and no smoothing. Fix the cap height around eight pixels and keep the leading tight.

## Accent comes from Cracktro, used sparingly

- Text scrolling endlessly across the screen
- Bands of color running behind it
- An oversized group name held at the center
- A run of greetings naming other groups

Let one material quality come from it: Patterns generated from formulas and a short looping tune, built with no asset files.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #FFFFFF, carry the structure in #FF8800 and #0055AA, and let a single accent come from #3a80c5. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: play, technique, nostalgia, rebellion, exhilaration.

## What goes wrong

- Amiga Workbench: Adding colors past the four breaks the very mechanism that carried press and disabled states, because those were read as contrast in brightness, and the controls become indistinguishable on a monochrome or grayscale display.
- Cracktro: Line up the effects but drop the name and the run of greetings, and the calling card is gone, leaving only a short piece of animation.

## Across the four

Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.

Design specs for each entry: https://indexstyle.org/styles/amiga-workbench/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/cracktro/design.md