A Tribute to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" Color Scheme
I unironically used this theme when I was a kid!
what kind of themes did you use to customize your operating systems or software?
Did you keep the standard themes or did you spend hours customizing the look and feel?
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Have any screenshots?
I don't have any, but I believe this is the default so you can get an idea of just how intense it is
My eyes!
Now imagine that #FF0000 on a CRT screen 😎
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absolutely loathed the hotdog color scheme, and my sister knew it, she'd always change it back to that scheme.
I prefer muted dark colors, easier on my eyes. back in win3.1 I mostly used dos5
ha!
yeah I can see how the theme might be overwhelming, I am partially colorblind thought so maybe that is the reason I found it so appealing
Ah yes, Windows 3.1 Hot Dog Stand: great color scheme or greatest color scheme?
I also really loved making custom wallpapers with custom pixel patterns. What a throwback
I used to spend more time on such things, even to the point of replacing Windows Explorer with Blackbox at least once. Nowadays I just scrounge some wallpapers off the web and put them on rotate.
Ah yes! Not so much themes, but I got a demo copy of a Windows 3.1 shell called Wayfarer from a magazine cover disk, and spent many happy hours setting that up. Also creating mashups of the standard wallpapers in Paintbrush, and fiddling with ChromaZone.