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Change Mac Plus or SE wallpaper??

68kMLA Troubleshooting 11 posts Nov 26, 2008 to Jan 14, 2009
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#1 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 - 16:40 68kMLA
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?

#2 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 - 02:11 68kMLA
Dang, There was a download for the program Backdrop on here somewhere. That I think should do the trick.

#3 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 - 02:32 68kMLA
Backdrop? I'll have to look into that. Thanks.

#5 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 - 02:45 68kMLA
I found it here.
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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.

#6 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 - 04:25 68kMLA
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.

#7 Tue, 2 Dec 2008 - 02:38 68kMLA
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.
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I'll look into that. ;)

#8 Sat, 6 Dec 2008 - 01:09 68kMLA
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.
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Right ;)

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

#9 Sun, 7 Dec 2008 - 04:42 68kMLA
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?

#10 Sun, 7 Dec 2008 - 05:56 68kMLA
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My version is either incomplete or outdated.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?

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