A Tribute to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" Color Scheme
A Tribute to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" Color Scheme
Yesterday's post about code syntax color schemes got me thinking about what is perhaps the ultimate color scheme, Windows 3.1's "Hot Dog Stand": The truly funny thing about this color scheme is that all the other Windows 3.1 color schemes are surprisingly rational, totally reasonable 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?
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
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
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.
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.
