January 9, 2026
Cursor Couture: Fights & Floppies
Amiga Pointer Archive
Retro cursors are back — and the internet’s fighting over flair vs function
TLDR: A new Amiga Pointer Archive lets you design and share retro mouse cursors and even boot them from a virtual floppy. Commenters split between nostalgia for customizable, context-aware cursors and frustration with today’s plain interfaces, sparking a playful skirmish over personalization, Linux jokes, and the lost art of UI flair.
The Amiga Pointer Archive just dropped a nostalgia nuke, letting anyone draw a retro cursor, save every tweak locally, and even spin a bootable floppy with their design. Think Pinterest for pointers, straight from the era of beige boxes and pure personality. The crowd went wild: arexxbifs praised the “low threshold” creativity of the Amiga days, when making your own mouse cursor was as easy as doodling. ptek chimed in with childhood memories of tiny preference files and mixtape-style “compilation disks” — kids today have playlists; we had floppies.
Then the drama: abeyer mourned that contextual pointers — cursors that change depending on what you’re doing — basically vanished, calling modern systems bland and unhelpful. reactordev lit the fuse with the ultimate flamebait: “Can we bring back skins or am I just going to get the obligatory ‘Switch to Linux’?” Cue the platform wars, eye-rolls, and “make it ugly, make it yours” jokes.
The vibes peaked with ForOldHack’s cinematic tale of a RAM upgrade wizard whose pointer was a minimalist diamond named Romeo. It’s cursor couture vs UI minimalism, and the comments are serving spicy nostalgia, design philosophy, and a dash of meme chaos. Want in? Try it yourself at the link and join the pointer party.
Key Points
- •The Amiga Pointer Archive offers a browsable collection of custom pointers with locally saved edit history.
- •A shareable pointer link is available, with options to share via Bluesky, Mastodon, or copy to clipboard.
- •Users can download an Amiga preferences file and place it in the “devs” folder on real or emulated Amiga systems.
- •The site provides a feature to create a bootable Amiga disk image containing the selected pointer.
- •All steps are saved locally in the browser, enabling a persistent, client-side history of edits.