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Huh, I do not remember Windows 1.0 being that shade of green but screenshots confirm what's here.
by scrumper 3mo ago
Huh, I do not remember Windows 1.0 being that shade of green but screenshots confirm what's here.
- Narishma 3mo agoIt probably looked much less neon bright on the displays of the time. Same for Windows 2.0.
- pavon 3mo agoInterestingly, none of the screenshots I can find show the dithering that the article talks about, and all the contemporary photographs of monitors show a less green blue background. I think maybe something is being lost in emulation?
- vlowrian 3mo agoAFAIK, the actual color was highly dependent on the hardware used (e.g. video adapter, CRT, etc.). That's why photographs of a Windows 1.0 screen might look vastly different. The color I listed is what Windows outputs on the software side. It's pretty much an EGA dither of bright cyan and bright green. It's what you would get with todays hardware.