Vintage Hardware Wallpapers

Reply 480 of 630, by H3nrik V!

Posted on 2021-12-24, 08:39

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maxtherabbit wrote on 2021-12-23, 21:07:

H3nrik V! wrote on 2021-12-22, 22:29:

Funny thing regarding bmp vs jpg is that back in the day, I always converted background images to bmp since decoding of jpg images hogged my general desktop performance. Not sure if it was on the 486dx2 or later on with k6-233 and Millennium 2 graphics ..

wouldn't it only have to decode it once at startup?

I would've thought that too, but no, changing desktop image to bmp rather than jpg made a world of difference to smoothness of operation ...?

If it's dual it's kind of cool ... 😎

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Reply 481 of 630, by Munx

Posted on 2021-12-24, 10:58

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H3nrik V! wrote on 2021-12-24, 08:39:

maxtherabbit wrote on 2021-12-23, 21:07:

H3nrik V! wrote on 2021-12-22, 22:29:

Funny thing regarding bmp vs jpg is that back in the day, I always converted background images to bmp since decoding of jpg images hogged my general desktop performance. Not sure if it was on the 486dx2 or later on with k6-233 and Millennium 2 graphics ..

wouldn't it only have to decode it once at startup?

I would've thought that too, but no, changing desktop image to bmp rather than jpg made a world of difference to smoothness of operation ...?

At least in Win98, you needed to "run your desktop as a web page" to use .jpg images for a background. That was what crippled performance.

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Reply 482 of 630, by H3nrik V!

Posted on 2021-12-24, 14:43

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Munx wrote on 2021-12-24, 10:58:

H3nrik V! wrote on 2021-12-24, 08:39:

maxtherabbit wrote on 2021-12-23, 21:07:

wouldn't it only have to decode it once at startup?

I would've thought that too, but no, changing desktop image to bmp rather than jpg made a world of difference to smoothness of operation ...?

At least in Win98, you needed to "run your desktop as a web page" to use .jpg images for a background. That was what crippled performance.

Oh yes, how right you are. That was the reason 😀

If it's dual it's kind of cool ... 😎

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Reply 483 of 630, by GrampaGotTheKeys

Posted on 2021-12-27, 04:54

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Very seasonal wallpaper from the FBI, felt appropriate for this topic.

Reply 484 of 630, by dr.zeissler

Posted on 2021-12-30, 11:50

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Hi there are there Matrox especial mystique Wallapers/Logos here? The search does not find one.

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Reply 485 of 630, by x21

Posted on 2022-01-22, 22:38

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What about ELSA?

Reply 486 of 630, by esasoft

Posted on 2022-02-05, 02:31

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Reply 487 of 630, by esasoft

Posted on 2022-02-05, 03:03

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Anders- wrote on 2021-12-21, 23:13:

The right background reminds me a bit of deathtrack, pretty neat. Want to make the wallpapers available for download?

Found it.
Hi-res (1600x1200) animated GIF (the mentioned wallpaper is actually a screeshot or a single frame from it).

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Reply 488 of 630, by Anders-

Posted on 2022-02-05, 18:36

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Reply 489 of 630, by Sphere478

Posted on 2022-02-06, 06:19

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Reply 490 of 630, by maverick85

Posted on 2022-02-21, 11:29

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does anybody have the 'Time Computers' green hourglass windows 98 wallpaper?

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Reply 491 of 630, by pinesal

Posted on 2022-02-24, 16:08

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I stumbled on a lot of vintage computer wallpapers stored here http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~duncjo01/archive/patterns/

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Reply 492 of 630, by 4dam

Posted on 2022-03-05, 18:59

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Two Dell wallpapers. 1024x768 / jpg | png

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Reply 493 of 630, by 4dam

Posted on 2022-03-05, 19:26

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Fujitsu wallpaper (photo is not mine, but is transformed with filters). 1600x1200 (jpg|png)

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Reply 494 of 630, by SteveC

Posted on 2022-03-08, 23:58

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esasoft wrote on 2022-02-05, 02:31:

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I love this Windows 3.1 one thanks!

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Reply 495 of 630, by maverick85

Posted on 2022-03-11, 10:12

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">

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ASRock 98
Win98SE Desktop
ASRock
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz
1 x 512MB 667 MHz DDR2
Soundblaster SB0100 + Altec Lansing ADA885
ATi Radeon X800XT 256MB GDDR3
1 x SATA 120GB HDD
1 x SATA DVD-RW

Reply 496 of 630, by maverick85

Posted on 2022-03-11, 10:19

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Time wallpaper for variety of resolutions..

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Win98SE Desktop
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Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz
1 x 512MB 667 MHz DDR2
Soundblaster SB0100 + Altec Lansing ADA885
ATi Radeon X800XT 256MB GDDR3
1 x SATA 120GB HDD
1 x SATA DVD-RW

Reply 497 of 630, by MAZter

Posted on 2022-04-02, 04:06

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Reply 498 of 630, by Strahssis

Posted on 2022-05-10, 15:21

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Not sure if it is already around, but here is the wallpaper of the Compaq Contura 400 series. It is a .bmp file originally but I had to convert it to be able to upload it here.

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Reply 499 of 630, by Socket3

Posted on 2022-05-23, 10:06

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I started playing around with SiS chipset boards (socket 370, socket A, socket 478) and decided I wanted a wallpaper for my first SiS build - a Tualeron 1100 on an Asus TUSI-M (SiS 630). Hope you guys like it:

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I saved the PDF file with all the different layers, so if someone would like a different resolution say 1600x1200, just let me know.

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