Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" Color Scheme | The Coffeehouse

Zeo
Channel 9 :)

Windows 3.1 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme

Seeing this makes me appreciate Aero.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000341.html

Bass
Channel 9, best used in moderation

Wow this is so much better then the fugly Aero interface. Did Microsoft lose all it's design abilities since then or something?

eddwo
Wheres my head at?

I suspect the only people that ever used this were those without a colour monitor.
I first used Windows 3.1 on an Amstrad ALT386 SX, it was years before I discovered what it looked like in colour.

Dexter

In reply to eddwo

#Jun 10th, 2008 @ 1:48 AM

Quite possible. Years ago I did a text mode GUI and since I only had a monochrome monitor I chose the colours based on the shades of gray (and in fact it wasn't gray, it was yellow, a monochrome yellow monitor) I was seeing rather than how the actual colours were supposed to look like.

It looked pretty good to me but later, when I finally got a colour monitor, I saw the horror. Something like gray text on pink background, bright green text selection and cyan "controls" Smiley .

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

In reply to Dexter

#Jun 10th, 2008 @ 3:47 AM

I seem to remember that was good on orange plasma displays; like the old Amstrad laptops.

Yggdrasil
Pour me a cab, 'cause I can't drink no more.

In reply to Dexter

#Jun 10th, 2008 @ 3:47 AM

I can sympathize. Many years ago I had a programming assignment in Oracle's Developer 2000 Forms. A simple data-entry form, I think. I made it in a rather pleasant, solid green - or so it seemed on the 16-color display on my workstation. On the instructor's 256-color system, however, it turned out to be a virulent, sickly green that nearly made him jump back from his monitor.