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A couple posts ago I asked if anyone knew of an archive of old tiled wallpapers. There really weren't any that were curated or easily accessible, so I started one. So far there are over 12k tiles!

Please enjoy.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Additionally, during my searches I found this website. It offers some more crisp, modern options to choose from. Really nice faux-retro stuff.

https://background-tiles.com/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Nice, looking at it made me feel surprisingly nostalgic. I guess you don't really see tiling backgrounds much anymore. Nice work on the archive too!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://wallhaven.cc has been awfully quiet since this repo dropped

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Any idea how to use a tiled wallpaper on modern smartphones? Android doesn't let you choose, it just stretches the image to the display size.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Daaaamn... You didn't need to and yet you went above and beyond! I'm definitely pulling this! It's awesome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This post inspired me to go find the tiling wallpapers I made 20 years ago. I almost made a pull request about it, but then decided not to, because it's GitHub. My wallpapers used to be on my own website, and now I'm going to make a Gemini capsule and put them up on that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Please link them once you've made them available. I'm very interested.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Gemini capsule is yet to be done, but the wallpapers are available at https://j.agrue.info/wallpapers/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you mind if I add them under a subdir, using the name in the copyright header?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Sure, go ahead :)