I know this isnt related to the post, but does anyone remember the artist or website that had a bunch of cool textures and colorful tiled wallpaper for the early days of linux? think mid-90s.
I've been scratching my head for years and my searches have never found it, but there has to be some white beards here that can recall it.
I remember there were some really cool options available, I believe in a square format for better tiling. If anyone can remember and post a link or archive I would very much appreciate it.
Here's someone's personal archive of weird miscellanea, including old Windows wallpapers which is what reminded me. I use unironically use the classic Packard Bell tile background on my computers because it reminds me of my grandmother's PC which is one of the first I ever used.
These personal collections are always neat to see. I'd like to start my own (beyond scraps in my local Pictures folder) but I'm not sure how to structure it. I might just build a grid of tagged/categorized media, like a chaotic memory palace.
Funny coincidence. I was just (as in just now) looking for a graphics driver for my old Pentium laptop to get Windows 3.1 to work at the full 800x600 resolution.
Gosh, my brain just got all fuzzy going through those one after the next. Transitioning from the previous era of CGA to 16 colors was so very exciting at the time.
It's weird that those give me nostalgia when I clearly remember our PC having a monochrome monitor. I wonder if my brain is retrofitting stuff or whether if any of those survived to Windows 98.
Sigh ... boots C64 with a rather odd coax to SCART to HDMI daisy-chain video interface. I also have a QSII joystick that I didn't quite manage to ruin playing Daley Thompson decathalon.
I know this isnt related to the post, but does anyone remember the artist or website that had a bunch of cool textures and colorful tiled wallpaper for the early days of linux? think mid-90s.
I've been scratching my head for years and my searches have never found it, but there has to be some white beards here that can recall it.
I remember there were some really cool options available, I believe in a square format for better tiling. If anyone can remember and post a link or archive I would very much appreciate it.
If it's what I'm thinking of, it was the "Propaganda" wallpapers. I remember using them in Red Hat 6 in the late 90s!
https://github.com/BenjaminHCCarr/PropagandaTiles
Seems to match what's in the desktop-backgrounds RPM on this ISO (CD 1)
https://archive.org/details/red-hat-linux-6.1
If you want your nostalgia in multimedia - https://canyonmid.com/
Nice. Kind of wish they'd used a shader to approximate the barrel distortion in the curvature of the Tandy monitor.
Love that.
As an aside, that keyboard in particular had the best click I've ever experienced.
Better than the Model M?
34 years of nostalgia there. Well, not continuously, but y'know.
Here's someone's personal archive of weird miscellanea, including old Windows wallpapers which is what reminded me. I use unironically use the classic Packard Bell tile background on my computers because it reminds me of my grandmother's PC which is one of the first I ever used.
https://www.dvd3000.ca/wp/extra/pb.html
These personal collections are always neat to see. I'd like to start my own (beyond scraps in my local Pictures folder) but I'm not sure how to structure it. I might just build a grid of tagged/categorized media, like a chaotic memory palace.
I checked the website and he/she did a lot of really cool stuffs.
Love this. Do it again, but for the whole package history of propaganda-debian.
Edit: I guess the package still exists, even though many desktop refuse to tile jpg. :/
very good
Funny coincidence. I was just (as in just now) looking for a graphics driver for my old Pentium laptop to get Windows 3.1 to work at the full 800x600 resolution.
Exactly as I remember - very few of them actually usable as backgrounds because they're so garish.
we have a crt tv with built in vhs in our office and have a bunch of old tapes
one is “Mastering Windows 3.1”
it’s fun to run in the background while working
for your enjoyment, here’s a similar 3.1 tutorial video from that era uploaded to YouTube
https://youtu.be/KRi5mjMgORk?si=OFH7UhOQif5EUCtg
That's a great idea. It would be neat if you could also cast media to it somehow.
Background knowledge is invaluable.
Gosh, my brain just got all fuzzy going through those one after the next. Transitioning from the previous era of CGA to 16 colors was so very exciting at the time.
I feel an ocular migraine coming on looking at these.
On CRT displays, did these not cause visual problems in the same way? I remember having no trouble looking at these years ago.
What tickles me is that Andreas put these on GitHub 13 years ago.
That’s long enough in tech to be considered retro in and of itself… let alone the age of these tiled backgrounds!
Someone who bought Windows 3.1 could easily be a grandparent by now, even if their first kid was born on release day.
And the kid could be born when this upload was done, and now be downloading!
It's weird that those give me nostalgia when I clearly remember our PC having a monochrome monitor. I wonder if my brain is retrofitting stuff or whether if any of those survived to Windows 98.
the 256color.bmp looks wrong, it's supposed to look more 3d, because it actually does use the 256 color pallette
yep that ones quantized to the system palette with no dithering, better version here: https://peakd.com/pixelart/@zelet/pixel-art-series-3-homage-...
It's funny that these all look more modern than you typically see on desktops.
the leaves one is really nice.
It was actually.
Tried it as my background for a bit as it looks good tiled, but mainly used the two tartans or just a solid blue.
Delightful! Glad someone posted this
Oh, man, does that bring back the memories!
Thanks for sharing. :-)
Sigh ... boots C64 with a rather odd coax to SCART to HDMI daisy-chain video interface. I also have a QSII joystick that I didn't quite manage to ruin playing Daley Thompson decathalon.
Last night I dreamed of flying toasters
thanks bro <3