9 Classic Mac OS Tiling Wallpapers

9 Classic Mac OS Tiling Wallpapers

If youre an extra longtime Mac user, you might remember way back in the 1990s when desktop backgrounds on classic Mac OS versions were tiled images of various textures. This was way back when the idea of setting a single image as wallpaper was a bit extreme because it was excessively resource heavy, and so tiling a small image was the norm instead (if not using just a solid color as a background) the good old days of computing, right? Well, why not bring a handful of those classic Mac OS System 7 tiling wallpapers to your modern Mac? Weve got a variety of the textured classic tiles from ancient Mac OS System 7.5 releases, some look like cheesy 90s housing wallpaper, theres a curious flying cat, a motherboard circuit, stars, jeans, and plenty of blue and purple textures. The images from Mac OS 7 are 64 x 64 pixels, but I resized them to be 128 x 128 pixels so they show a bit more of the detail on a modern Retina Mac screen. They look about as good (or bad) as youd expect. Save any (or all) of the images below to your local Mac, and then set them as a tiling wallpaper in MacOS: We have covered before, but if you need a refresher heres how it is done: Doesnt that look fantastic in that 90s retro kind of way? Well, as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Of course this is just a wallpaper, but if youre feeling inspired then you can go a bit further and or to get a bit of a retrofied look in modern Mac OS and Mac OS X releases too. If those old wallpaper tiles are bringing back memories, youd probably have some fun , or , or you can locally and not rely on a web browser at all. And if all of this is not enough nostalgia for you, we have .