Amiga Pointer Archive
A browsable collection of all Amiga mouse pointers ever. Now that’s a mouthful!
It’s an archive. It’s an editor. It can create a bootable Amiga disk with your pointer on it!
Enter the archiveBrowse mode
- Preview how a pointer would appear after booting
- Browse through pointers with the prev/random/next buttons
- …or by using the mouse wheel above the preview
- …or by doing a left or right swipe
- Don’t mind the the silly categories :)
Pointer editor
- Start messing with the current pointer immediately!
- There’s a background, three pointer and three system colors
- You can only paint with the pointer colors and the background (transparent)
- Right mouse button clears a pixel
- No changes are lost – there’s an undo, and you can review every step
- The hotspot defines the active pixel – where the logical “tip” of the pointer is
There’s an extra layer of magic behind the Export button:
- Share the current pointer on social media
- Use the share URL to resume your work later or elsewhere
- Export the pointer as an Amiga-compatible system file
- Create a bootable Amiga disk image that contains your pointer!
Um, what is this, exactly?
It’s a mouse pointer museum for the Amiga, with a bit of interactivity sprinkled in. You know, for the kids!
On the Commodore Amiga, it was common to customize everything to your personal liking. The system software came with a preferences editor that let you adjust the printer settings, the double-click interval, the system colors – and the mouse pointer!
Whenever a disk was put out into the world – be it a game, a magazine cover disk, or a demo – chances were high that someone designed a custom cursor for it. The motivations for a custom pointer are versatile: To make a professional impression, to show off, and for the fun of it!
This is a collection of those mouse pointers.
Note: Not all Amiga disks contain a mouse pointer, only those that booted up in a system-compatible way. Many disks also used the system configuration to hide the fact that they were using the system at all, by making everything black and using a transparent pointer.
There are lots and lots of archived disk images available online, and this is what led to the idea of a mouse pointer museum in the first place. Building this collection was only possible thanks to the commendable preservation efforts by these groups and organizations – thank you so much!
- TOSEC (The Old School Emulation Center)
- TURRAN (The Ultimate Retro Repository for Amiga Nuts)
- AMiGASCNE
- Internet Archive & DiscMaster
- pouët.net
- Bamiga Sector One ADF Collection
Also, thanks and a shout-out to:
For some technical background, check out my blog posts about the initial idea, some curious roadblocks, and fun with data archaeology.
Some statistics
| 100,685 | Disks scanned for mouse pointers |
|---|---|
| 49,601 | Preferences files found |
| 8,953 | Pointers after deduplication |
| 8,112 | Pointers without blank and single-pixel ones |
| 7 Jan 2026 | Latest database update |
My pointer is missing!
You once created a mouse pointer that should have made its way here? Or you just made one recently? That’s awesome!
Currently there is no manual update/submit mechanism yet, but you can drop me an e-mail with a file or a link (“losso” plus the domain name), or just keep watching this space for updates. Cheers!
