I typically use landscapes and/or fantasy wallpapers that aren't a pain when looking at it. Every single rig I build gets it's own unique wallpaper, it adds to the personality of a build 😀

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I can understand that I guess, I mean there is something to be said for just having a plain teal background. Personally I'm beginning to agree with Tetrium though that it gives the computer a little more of a personal feel.

Historically, all of my desktop pictures have a lot of deep purple in them. Not intentional, just mostly ended up that way. ;D

LSL-Love for Sail in-game wallpapers and some Lara Croft stills..🤣

My main computer cycles from over 1000 wallpapers (arranged thematically and dimensionally, controlled with DisplayFusion); I usually just grab a sub-directory or specific file that I like for an old machine. If said machine can run XP it can run XP's WP changer (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/detai … s.aspx?id=18097) and I can just setup a folder with various options then; it isn't quite as full-featured as DisplayFusion, but it's still functional.

On my 486, CHESS.BMP from Windows 3.0.

On my 233MMX, plain teal background.

On my P3, the older 3Dfx logo (high res capture from RetroCompaqGuy's video).

SquallStrife wrote:

On my P3, the older 3Dfx logo (high res capture from RetroCompaqGuy's video).

I can give you the original? 😉

vetz wrote:

SquallStrife wrote:

On my P3, the older 3Dfx logo (high res capture from RetroCompaqGuy's video).

I can give you the original? 😉

Ooooh! Yes please!!

Btw, do you mean from the 3DFX video or the logo shown in the intros?

The one shown in the intro is this file:

For the video I don't think I have the original recording any longer. I have the file that I uploaded to Youtube, but I should recapture it in higher quality. I've learned a thing or two since I got my capture card.

I mean this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8UvDRc_rdo

I just played it at 720p and did a screen capture at the right moment.

In period correction mode I just slap on a desktop theme I was using at the time. Unfortunately the desktop theme I was using at the time is MISSING FROM THE INTERNET and i'm going at many lengths to get it, going beyond archive.org, turning toward even the email protocol for getting to old webmasters!!!

On my Gateway P200MMX, this thing I drew myself.

On my Toshiba 486 DX4/75, the same background as it was in this pic, only with Windows 3.1 instead of 95.

On my 486 (with Win95) I just use the opening museum attic shot from Fate of Atlantis (aspect ratio corrected and upscaled so it still looks crisp without any distortion or pixel-blurring). On my Win98SE Pentium machine I just use the default clouds background. Always loved it.

I have a plethora of wallpapers that I use. Early Quake 3 shots are usually up to it, but I also use concept art or promotional 3D renders from video games (Heart of Darkness, Starcraft, Outcast...).

Oh yeah there's that brief period in late 2000-2002 where I used wallpapers of games, some games even cancelled, from GameWallpapers. Unfortunately this is also the post dot-bomb period where all those neat desktop themes sites died and one of the two standing were a spyware installer wrapper to all of them with an annoying affiliate program to shell itself as many different theme sites.

A nice, deep, calming teal.

Mmmmmm.

Lol Now that you say that I really have to agree. There is something about dark teal that is appealing and easy on the eyes.

I always use a wallpaper to match whatever graphics card I'm using at the time. Most of the time this is either a Nvidia or 3DFX wallpaper. Used to use fantasy or sci fi wallpapers but stopped because most of them make the screen look too cluttered.