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A New Challenger Approaches! Anonymous
Hey, Anon! I have a challenge for you!

I recently acquired a laptop running Windows 95 to use for DOS/Win95 gaming and schoolwork. I want it to look nice upon booting up, but there's one problem...

The laptop's display is 800x600 at 256 colors. x.x

THE CHALLENGE:
Make an 800x600 wallpaper that uses ONLY or looks good at 256 colors.

Please help me Anon, I know no one uses the res or the colors anymore and Windows 95 is crap. but this is a crap computer that, if stolen, is alright to be lost. Please help me?

In return I give you this scan.
>> Anonymous
Upgrade to vista, then you won't have that problem
>> Anonymousse
OP here.

>>502097
Hardy-har har, reeeeeeal funny.
it's an OLD laptop.
IBM Thinkpad 560, specs unknown.
>> Anonymous
>>502097
U mean downgrade to vista?
>> Anonymous
>>502094

You DO know there's a nice little program called DOSBOX, that runs any DOS game you could ever want to play, right?

I laughed at 'specs unknown'.
>> Anonymous
UNPOSSIBLE
You just need to find the drivers. I refuse to believe that W95-era laptop doesn't have over-256 mode.

Also, you won't find such thing, as it would have to use some sort of Windows system palette, instead of defining its own. If windows has a palette, that is. Maybe it just makes one based on screen contents.

256 color mode in DOS = okay (think old games and such, they have the whole graphics mode to themselves and are able to manage the palette)

256 color mode in Windows = just kill yourself
>> Anonymous
just use Linux

win95= FAIL
Puppy Linux or Vector Linux=WIN
>> Anonymous
OK..if your going with windows just use XP..since Windows 95...ME...2000...and XP all use the DOS..vista=fail...it doesnt use the DOS...
>> Anonymous
off topic..but does anybody know why...when Vista was created why they didnt use DOS?..would it have been another version of XP?..or what..and since vista doesnt use DOS then what is it using?
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Since you seem to like the scan, I made a dithr of it. I don't remember the proper bitsizes to use for 256 colours though, so let me know if it looks wonky.
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>>502165
I see how you're thinking (gif image consisting of 255 colours), but contrary to how gif images work, the screen mode cannot adapt the colours used through pallettes. Thus, the image would look fucked up. Picture related.
>> Anonymous
>>502180
yes it can - learn to configure windows.
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>>502185
I never used any windows-releases between 3.11 and XP, so I wouldn't know. What I do know is that the image would look good, but icons and everything else would look like shit if you changed the palette (lolspelling).

This'll be the last dithr, I need to get some sleep. If you (op) like the style and want an image converted, post it and I'll skim through the thread for requests tomorrow.
>> Anonymous
>>502136
Then start believing it.

Meanwhile, I suggest looking for clean vector wallpapers. Those tend to have few colors (if done right), so they could work.

However, I remember not using a wallpaper when I used Win95. There was a Myth that doing so made it run faster or smt.
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>> Anonymous
>>502195<- I thank you for the dithers, I'll get them all in a bit. there are a few more on my main computers at home, so I'll post them if this thread isn't here on Sunday night EST. :D

Any moar shall be accepted. thanks in advance.
>>502127<-Yes, I do know there's DOSbox. I have that on here now.
>>502136<- Believe it, this thing only has 256 colors. ny other drivers I use for the graphics card to get 16-bit result in my display going crazy.
>>502127<- I figured it out, it's a Thinkpad 560, 800MB HDD, 100Mhz Pentium without the bugs, and the ORIGINAL ORIGINAL Windows 95, not A or B or any of those OSRs.
>>502162<- NO. Windows 9x and ME run over DOS 7 or something. NT4, 2000 and XP are their own OSes with their own Kernels.
>> T3h D17h3rz Anonymous
OP here, AGAIN.
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>>502625<-Requires cropping

That's it for now, if I find more on /w/ I want I'll add them later. right now I"m not in a position to upload pics though x.x and I have some real awesome ones I wanna get dithered too. if anything I"ll just open up Photoshop when I get home and do it myself, I just wanted to see what Anon was capable of. Thanks in advance!
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>> Anon
>>502094
There's laptops with 800x600 resolutions yet?
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/end low-res nostalgia thread
>> Anonymous
OP here...
I determine most of these pics to be fail. I gave links to specific ones I wanted to be dithered and resized. I guess I can't always get what I want it seems. I shall start another thread when this one disappears. -__- Thanks anyway Anon.
>> Anonymous
Dithring your requested images as we speak. Should I just dump them in a new thread once they're done?
>> Anonymous
>>503116
Yes, please do, and Please link it in this thread. I shall be waiting.
>> Anonymous
OP here, again... anyone else willing to add to this? there's still room for like... 40-41 images?
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>> T-Anon
>>503796
Need larger win, then this will be ultimate win.
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>>503796
OP here... I Agree. Please, give a larger size so I might have this for one of my newer computers. 12x10 is wanted :D
In return I give you something from my /w/ collection.
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>> Anonymous
>>503806
iqdb claims that there's no higher res version of that image. It is, however, very popular.