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@Wintermute_BBS I got you (almost) covered, dithering is a bit complicated for GIMP.  @stage7 @Wintermute_BBS lol that's what I was stuck with after I reinstalled Windows 3.1 on the family 486 and couldn't find SVGA drivers @stage7 @Wintermute_BBS I was probably the only one who noticed at the time. previous computer to the 486 was an IBM PC jr so even 640x480x16 colors looked like LCARS in comparison :3  640×480 was also a big deal because, for the first time, the PC had a graphics mode with square pixels. Most computers at the time (except the Mac) had pixels taller than they were wide. Fun fact: standard VGA can (just barely) do 800×600×4bpp. The VGA BIOS doesn't supply a predefined mode for it, so you have to do black magic similar to Mode X in order to use it. Pity Windows' VGA driver couldn't do that; it would've turned heads and raised eyebrows for sure! @argv_minus_one I've never actually seen it, but Wikipedia claims it can be done https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Graphics_Array#Other_graphics_modes and VGA does have enough RAM (800×600×0.5=240000 bytes; VGA has 262144 bytes). @Thalass My guess is that this gradient is so iconic you wouldn't even need the text in the corner to make the association 😀 .  @rooneymcnibnug I remember there were quite a few with red-to-black background and yellow text instead. A bit scary!  @stage7 featuring: an ominous looking file called there were three progress meters you had to fill up, one for the specific file currently being copied, one for the whole set, and a third one that tracked some secret metric
 @ao I always dreaded that "Low" signal. Like, what fears lie behind it? We may never know.   @stage7@owo.cafe these screens give me PTSD and I can't look at them  @stage7 half the time it's this and the other half it's the classic windows 9x green background
 @stage7 I dont remember which software it was, but there was one with a red > black background I had installed 😮 @DeltaLima That's correct, some software used red to black and even yellow text IIRC 😀.  @stage7 this looks like the kind of screen that would have a normal message on it but it flashes into a spooky message for a few frames while theres classical music plpaying with a vhs filter over it  @stage7 I modelled my website (the Neocities one, not the Flounder one) to look a bit like that.  @stage7 Borland would like a word 😉 (IIRC, 4.5 was right around the time they stopped using that and switched to installshield, which used the blue gradient)  @stage7 But then there was also stuff like this: @sim This fellow ham radio operator has done it! https://mastodon.longlandclan.id.au/@stuartl/111723491497166414  @varx Does it have a detachable protective screen to "block the harmful radiations"? @stage7 those were often the safer installers, as they used a third party installer that was (often) better at uninstalling later. The native one was similar but didn’t have a smooth gradient and was slightly lighter in color  @morten_skaaning I was going to say "Fitos Lusec Windows Vinosec" but that was FF8 and now my joke is ruined. @CiaobyDany I'd say it was the default interface of the installer and most devs didn't bother to change it OR it was impractical to do it. There were variants, though, I remember seeing the text in yellow and/or the blue replaced with red. @yepes Cuando entre unas corporaciones y otras no habían llenado la casa de mierda. @yepes No recuerdo cuál fue el programa que más disquetes me llevó usar pero recuerdo algunos de MS-DOS que usaban cinco. Por suerte tuvimos lectora de CD pronto (1996, creo). En lo de ver crecer barritas me desquité cuando estaba a tope con eMule. |
@stage7 I remember, but in my case it was more pixel-ish (EGA graphics)