Amiga support and maintenance software

Amiga support and maintenance software performs service functions such as formatting media for a specific filesystem, diagnosing failures that occur on formatted media, data recovery after media failure, and installation of new software for the Amiga family of personal computers—as opposed to application software, which performs business, education, and recreation functions.

The Amiga came with some embedded utility programs, but many more were added over time, often by third-party developers and companies.

Commodore included utility programs with the operating system. Many of these were original features, which were adopted into other systems:

None of these update systems was widely used by the Amiga community.

Amiga places system utilities in two standard directories:

AmigaOS features a standard centralized utility to partition and format hard disks, called HDToolBox.

MorphOS uses an updated version of the SCSIConfig utility (since MorphOS version 2, HDConfig) implemented by third party vendor Phase5. In spite of the name, "SCSIConfig" possessed a unique feature at the time, which was providing a consistent mechanism to manage all types of disk interfaces, including IDE, irrespective of which interface the disk(s) in question used.

AmigaOS diagnostic tools are usually programs which display the current state of Exec and AmigaDOS activities.

Promoter and ForceMonitor are utilities that allow the user to control the resolution of Intuition screens for Amiga programs.

WHDLoad is a utility to install legacy Amiga games on a hard disk and load them from Workbench desktop instead of floppies, on which they were often delivered.

jst is an older utility which the developer abandoned in order to concentrate efforts on WHDLoad. Old jstloaders can be read with WHDLoad, and jst itself has some early level of WHDLoad compatibility.

The original Amiga CLI (Command Line Interface) had some basic editing capabilities, command templates, and other features such as ANSI compatibility and color selection. In AmigaOS 1.3, the program evolved into a complete text-based shell called AmigaShell, with command history and enhanced editing capabilities.

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