Change Mac Plus or SE wallpaper??

[krye]

Anyone know of any software that can display an image on a Mac Plus or SE desktop instead of the standard cheesy wallpaper from the control panel?

I could have sworn I saw an image of an SE on the internet that someone had a BMP or JPG displayed as their wallpaper. I'd like to maybe display a MacPaint image as my wallpaper. Anyone know how to pull this off?

 

[benjgvps]

Dang, There was a download for the program Backdrop on here somewhere. That I think should do the trick.

 

[krye]

Backdrop? I'll have to look into that. Thanks.

 

[returningmacuser]

Backdrop? I'll have to look into that. Thanks.

I found it here.

 

[MrMacPlus]

I found it here.

Well, garsh, thanks for linking to my site!

Anyway, you might find it helpful to get GIFconverter, and know that your image needs to be 512 x 342, not 512 x 384 as I said in the readme. Be warned that the normal way of making startupscreens in ResEdit won't work. You must use GIFconverter or SuperPaint, I prefer the former.

 

[Scott Baret]

For Backdrop you can use MacPaint or even GraphicConverter on OS X to do the trick. It takes any MacPaint format; startup screen format is not necessary.

 

[MrMacPlus]

For Backdrop you can use MacPaint or even GraphicConverter on OS X to do the trick. It takes any MacPaint format; startup screen format is not necessary.

I'll look into that.

 

[MrMacPlus]

For Backdrop you can use MacPaint or even GraphicConverter on OS X to do the trick. It takes any MacPaint format; startup screen format is not necessary.

Right

No, it fails, I get a nice garbled static screen.

 

[Scott Baret]

Strange...mine has worked fine with a file from an OS 9 Mac...and I've used several different files.

Did you play around with the DA at all to adjust the picture on the screen?

 

[MrMacPlus]

Eh, DA? Mines just an init.

My version is either incomplete or outdated. Could you find the time to upload your version?

EDIT: wait, is there a DA in the INIT file that is visible from Font & DA Mover?

 

[sambapati87]

I'm trying to do this with my Classic II (7.1), and it works fine until you open a Finder window and move it or close it. Draws all corruptly. (attached images)

Before: http://afd.gotdns.com/classicii/before.gif

After: http://afd.gotdns.com/classicii/after.gif