Windows 3.1 tiled background .bmp archive

thombles

If you want your nostalgia in multimedia - https://canyonmid.com/

czemuja

thanks bro <3

spacebuffer

the leaves one is really nice.

soopypoos

Last night I dreamed of flying toasters

_fw

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!

wiremine

Oh, man, does that bring back the memories! Thanks for sharing. :-)

montroser

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.

patrickscoleman

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

mikestorrent

the 256color.bmp looks wrong, it's supposed to look more 3d, because it actually does use the 256 color pallette

LetsGetTechnicl

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

tmtvl

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.

monday2

Delightful! Glad someone posted this

stevage

Exactly as I remember - very few of them actually usable as backgrounds because they're so garish.

gerdesj

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.

BobMcBob

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.

lloydatkinson

It's funny that these all look more modern than you typically see on desktops.

wkjagt

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.

thowme923874

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. :/

dkga

Boy how I love them all, especially Egypt, which looks like the shekel symbol, and the arches.