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ColorDesk

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Category:	Control Panels & Extensions
Year released:	1988
Author:	Paul Mercer
Publisher:	Microseeds Publishing Inc.

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ColorDesk.sit_.hqx (34.67 KB)
MD5: 6a1264a59125df1122d6a443bddfd838
For System 6.x - Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6

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ColorDesk_1.1d2.sit (22.39 KB)
MD5: 77ae2ef53ebfbe62cf0eaf784c5bb804
For System 6.x - Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6

Emulation
This app works with: Mini vMac II

A terrific Control Panel to allow you to change your desktop background to a black & white or color image under Systems 6-8 (and maybe others). Unlike DeskPicture, ColorDesk loads a single background image during startup, making it appear nice and cleanly before the Finder loads. Works in Grayscale mode by dithering the image (may require Color QuickDraw though, not sure).

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

System 6-8, color or grayscale Macs

Requires a color capable Mac. If running on System 6.x or earlier, Color QuickDraw (32-Bit QuickDraw Extension) is required for color display.

Loads OK in Mac OS 9.2.2, but haven't tested if it works on this system. Likely obsolete by Systems 7.5 onwards.

Comments

by mrdav - 2019, December 30 - 7:27am

I have added your first sentence to the compatibility info on the page.

by MikeTomTom - 2019, December 30 - 5:43am

Requires a color capable Mac and Color QuickDraw for color display if running on System 6.
Color QuickDraw is built into Mac OS 7.0 and later, so the separate "32-bit QuickDraw" Extension is not required from 7.0 onwards.

Works well in Mini vMac II ( emulating a Macintosh II ) and System 6. Thanks for this addition.