←back to thread

What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?

(devblogs.microsoft.com)
280 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 13 May 25 11:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
Show context
calrain ◴[16 May 25 21:46 UTC] No.44010058[source]▶
I used these all the time when rolling out Windows 3.1 and 3.11 for thousands of computers back in the early 90's.

You would just pick any icon that seemed relevant, with a focus on not choosing the same icon for two different applications.

Computer GUI's were so new then that people didn't really care if the icon was 100% correct or not.

Sometimes for big applications I would draw up an icon and then use it, but mainly try to stay on moricons.dll or any dll's that came with the application that might contain icons.

replies(2): >>44010411 #>>44011071 #
1. qingcharles ◴[16 May 25 22:40 UTC] No.44010411[source]▶
This. You just needed something and we were starved for icons with the default install, so I would just dig around to find an icon that half-way matched what the application (never "app" then) was.