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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
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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.