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Windows 3.1 tiled background .bmp archive

https://github.com/andreasjansson/win-3.1-backgrounds
103•justsomehnguy•2h ago

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thombles•1h ago
If you want your nostalgia in multimedia - https://canyonmid.com/
Terr_•1h ago
34 years of nostalgia there. Well, not continuously, but y'know.
thereticent•1h ago
Love that.

As an aside, that keyboard in particular had the best click I've ever experienced.

dotancohen•27m ago
Better than the Model M?
vunderba•1h ago
Nice. Kind of wish they'd used a shader to approximate the barrel distortion in the curvature of the Tandy monitor.
czemuja•1h ago
thanks bro <3
spacebuffer•1h ago
the leaves one is really nice.
dwd•43m ago
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.

soopypoos•1h ago
Last night I dreamed of flying toasters
_fw•1h 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!

bombcar•37m ago
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!

wiremine•1h ago
Oh, man, does that bring back the memories!

Thanks for sharing. :-)

montroser•1h ago
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.
peder•34m ago
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.

patrickscoleman•1h ago
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

layer8•56m ago
Background knowledge is invaluable.
jerbearito•40m ago
That's a great idea. It would be neat if you could also cast media to it somehow.
mikestorrent•1h ago
the 256color.bmp looks wrong, it's supposed to look more 3d, because it actually does use the 256 color pallette
gfody•54m ago
yep that ones quantized to the system palette with no dithering, better version here: https://peakd.com/pixelart/@zelet/pixel-art-series-3-homage-...
LetsGetTechnicl•55m ago
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

jerbearito•41m ago
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.
markus_zhang•22m ago
I checked the website and he/she did a lot of really cool stuffs.
tmtvl•41m ago
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•40m ago
Delightful! Glad someone posted this
stevage•40m ago
Exactly as I remember - very few of them actually usable as backgrounds because they're so garish.
gerdesj•20m ago
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.

Windows 3.1 tiled background .bmp archive

https://github.com/andreasjansson/win-3.1-backgrounds
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