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Here are some ones from MacOS 7: https://osxdaily.com/2018/01/01/classic-mac-os-tiling-wallpapers/ https://osxdaily.com/2018/01/01/classic-mac-os-tiling-wallpa

• Waterluvian 3y ago
  Repeating bears in overalls is all I can see when I think System 7 desktop pattern.
  • jwells89 3y ago
    For me it’s the grass, stones, and star patterns. They look way too busy on modern displays but at 640x480 or 800x600 they weren’t too bad.
• mattl 3y ago
  System 7... it didn't become Mac OS until 7.6 or something, and then Mac OS 8 came out very soon after that.
  • MenhirMike 3y ago
    Also conveniently made sure that clone manufacturers (who only had a license for System 7) didn't have a modern Mac OS anymore.
    • mattl 3y ago
      Right except that one clone maker they bought IIRC?
      • MenhirMike 3y ago
        Yeah, they bought out Power Computing.
• jandrese 3y ago
  Even more fun was the fact the wallpaper widget had a little pixel editor built in that let you make your own tiling pattern. I seem to recall that it updated the desktop in realtime as you changed the pixels so you always knew exactly what your pattern looked like tiled.
  • 101008 3y ago
    Oh, memory unblocked! Didn't Windows 98 had something similar? It could be Win95 but I think it would be too much for that time, and for XP we already had background images in "good quality".
    • jandrese 3y ago
      I don't think Windows ever included anything like it with the OS. Windows 95 switched to having a giant JPEG background for the wow factor. Certainly there could have been a third party program that implemented that functionality, but I don't think Microsoft ever shipped it with the OS. Maybe as one of those optional fun pack things they used to offer?
      • fourteenfour 3y ago
        Windows 3.1 and 2000 definitely had a pattern editor. I think it was removed in XP.