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The Gothbench series is an ever-growing
collection of gothically correct tiling background
patterns. They are designed to give your computer
desktop a darker look and feel. The
patterns are free for personal use. Share and enjoy.
Downloads
Gothbench
V, 6, 7, 8, 9, and X are all
available below. They are broken down into different
editions for different resolutions. These are
obviously only suggestions. If you're not sure, I
recommend 1080p.
Trivia
- Gothbench
is named after the Amiga's desktop software,
Workbench.
- gothbenchV
is being released 21 years after gothbench4.
- gothbench4
and earlier installments were targeted at older
lower resolution displays and so are not available
here.
- Gothbench
I was released in 1996 for the Amiga
only. It was sorta horrible.
- Gothbench
II was a major improvement and was also
available for Macintosh (with the generous help of
Dr. Chris Cooley) and Windows.
- gothbenchV
includes some select patterns from previous
installments re-jiggered or re-created for today's
higher resolution monitors.
- gothbenchV
and gothbench6
are being released at the same time.
- gothbench6
may be the slightly superior product, but gothbenchV
has twice as many patterns (50). Luckily, you
don't have to choose.
- gothbenchV and
onward are entirely synthetic and resolution
agnostic, with three exceptions in gothbenchV: Lenore2 (crinkled
plastic wrap), Leather2 (my faux leather
briefcase) and Bereavement (scanned and re-tiled
lace).
- gothbench7 was completed in just
a week.
- gothbench8 was also completed in
around a week.
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This
site and the Gothbench content are Copyright 2023
by Milla Dixon. All rights reserved. Everything is
the original work of Milla Dixon unless otherwise
noted.
Please
don't mock my HTML. I'm old and rusty.
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