B&W Windows 98
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 8:54 am
Ever saw Windows 95 or 98 in black'n white ?
I was fiddling with 98 in QEMU today and I've got this screen:
It's easy if you want to achieve this in your real PC or virtual machine running W9x:
1. Uninstall your graphics card driver from the device manager.
2. Before rebooting, select No when the system will ask for it, and add a new hardware (without Windows's PnP or non-PnP HW searching), named "Standard VGA graphic card".
3. Reboot the system. Windows should be in beautiful 640x480 mode with amazing 16 colors.
4. Right-click on your desktop, click Settings and select 2 colors from the combobox.
5. Click OK and whoah, you've got yourself a functional, two-color GUI operating system!
I have never saw Windows in two colors. Even Windows 1.0 was in color
but it supported blackandwhite for CGA 640x400 mode, I think... (The above screen should be 640x480 or 640x350). Remember VisiCorp's Visi On or Adlib Visual Composer? Well a operating system from 1998 can look similarly too.
Regards,
inflater
I was fiddling with 98 in QEMU today and I've got this screen:
It's easy if you want to achieve this in your real PC or virtual machine running W9x:
1. Uninstall your graphics card driver from the device manager.
2. Before rebooting, select No when the system will ask for it, and add a new hardware (without Windows's PnP or non-PnP HW searching), named "Standard VGA graphic card".
3. Reboot the system. Windows should be in beautiful 640x480 mode with amazing 16 colors.
4. Right-click on your desktop, click Settings and select 2 colors from the combobox.
5. Click OK and whoah, you've got yourself a functional, two-color GUI operating system!
I have never saw Windows in two colors. Even Windows 1.0 was in color
but it supported blackandwhite for CGA 640x400 mode, I think... (The above screen should be 640x480 or 640x350). Remember VisiCorp's Visi On or Adlib Visual Composer? Well a operating system from 1998 can look similarly too. Regards,
inflater
