Easy switching betwen B&W to 16 to 256 colours

[slomacuser]

I have LC with system 6 and 7.0 loaded with lot of games that run B&W or 16 or 256 colours. Is there any shortcut skipping the Monitors control panel to make it quicker switching betwen colour modes? Thx

 

[gsteemso]

I vaguely recall there having been an FKEY or the like that switched screen resolutions, but even if I am remembering correctly that it even existed, I never actually used it. My family’s earliest Mac, purchased in 1993, was set to 256 colours nearly all the time because none of us ever did much gaming. I don’t think it would be a terribly complex utility to write, though.

 

[olePigeon]

Took me a while to find an old Hyperarchive mirror, but yes, there were lots:

ftp://ftp.uni-potsdam.de/pub/systems/mac/Configuration/

Any of the utilities with "depth" in the name, and probably others not as cleverly named.

 

[Bunsen]

I'm trying to remember the name of a utility that was used a lot on Powerbooks. 

There was a small tab at the side of the screen, and when you hit it it would scroll out a line of tiny icons on a bar, each one being some function you could switch on and off.  Some of them popped out sub-menus, and I recall one of those was for changing screen rez and/or colour depth.

Control Strip or something?

IIRC it will work on any Mac, not just the Powerbooks.

 

[Bunsen]

Control Strip is a super cool extension that is included with the new PowerBooks and as part of System 7.5.

ftp://ftp.uni-potsdam.de/pub/systems/mac/Configuration/00cfg-abstracts.txt

There are a bunch of third-party control strip modules in that directory.

 

[IPalindromeI]

The res/colour switch is included in the base modules. The question is if it works on 7.0 (extremely likely not for 6) - possibly. 7.1 is more likely.

 

[Paralel]

It works in the original install for the Blackbird series, 7.1.1.

 

[olePigeon]

I believe Control Strips were apart of System 8.  I don't know if the control panel is backwards compatible to System 7, certainly not 6.  I think your best bet are the simple extensions that I linked to.

 

[slomacuser]

Thanks for the tips and suggestions I will look for "depth" utillity and try the one that fits the best for my needs.

 

[IPalindromeI]

I believe Control Strips were apart of System 8.  I don't know if the control panel is backwards compatible to System 7, certainly not 6.  I think your best bet are the simple extensions that I linked to.

They're definitely in 7.5 - it's a matter of it goes back to <7.5.

 

[Paralel]

I can almost guarantee control strip will work in 7.1.2p, it did on my blackbird, but that was upgraded from the blackbird install of 7.1.1, so its hard to say if 7.1.2p has that in it, or it just inherited it from the original install.

7.1.2p has the same finder as 7.5.0, IDK if that has anything to do with whether control strip will work or not.