Display graphic FULL SCREEN on Mac SE?

[JDW]

What app will allow me to display a graphic FULL SCREEN that works on a Mac SE or Plus (4MB of RAM & 68000 CPU)?

Graphic Converter 1.7 won't work and neither will JPEGView 3. SuperPaint won't do it either. Same for Deneba Canvas 3.5.

I am talking about full screen with NO MENUBAR -- just the graphic only at the full 512x342 pixels. On my SE/30, I use Photoshop 4.0, but that doesn't work on an SE.

 

[YMK]

The HyperCard stack could be toggled to display full screen with a key click.

Doesn't Command-M already do this?

 

[Eric's Edge]

Doesn't Command-M already do this?

Command-M is the message box. There is a command to toggle the menu bar. I was thinking a scrip that would also hide the cursor and move to the next card.

 

[YMK]

Ah right... it has been a while. How about Command-Space?

 

[Eric's Edge]

Ah right... it has been a while. How about Command-Space?

That's the one.

 

[mikeypie]

He's dead, Jim.

Full screen image viewing:

FullPaint crashes on every OS flavor of System 7, and even crashes under 6.0.8 for me.

You might try changing the memory bus setting (in the Memory Control Panel) between 24-bit and 32-bit. Many older (especially System 6 and earlier) apps need 24-bit addressing because they made hacks for speed improvements and such. Later software might need 32-bit and crash in 24-bit mode

Folks on Facebook suggested I try PowerPoint 1.0, and while that does display content full screen, it shrinks that content down and put a forced margin around it

Aldus Persuasion might be a better choice for presentation software on classic Macs. it should also have full-screen, and it might not pad the edges

I tried using Graphic Converter on my vintage Mac to make a MacPaint version of my TIFFs

Try JPEGView by Aaron Giles. It might have a full-screen mode. If not, it might do a better job converting your TIFFs

A final thing to try might be looking for keyboard shortcuts in various apps to toggle full screen. They might be in the documentation but not in the menus because that's how things were sometimes. I would try combos like ⌘-space, esc, and such Edit: Just realized ⌘-space came up already, but for different reasons

 

[JDW]

Try JPEGView by Aaron Giles. It might have a full-screen mode. If not, it might do a better job converting your TIFFs

I've not tried all your other suggestions, but I did comment on JPEGview here.

 

[mikeypie]

Sorry, I got mixed up thinking you were using an SE/30. Obviously, there are more options for SE/30 than for SE. Contrary to what you said initially, though SuperPaint does full screen with no menubar. And, like HyperCard, it works on low-spec classics. I spent some time and tested SuperPaint with System 6.0.8:

SE: (per your question)

• SuperPaint 1.1MS, SuperPaint 2.0, or SuperPaint Deluxe 3.5.
  1. Go to Options > Preferences, and then select Hide menus when hiding palettes.
  2. Go to Windows > Full Screen (⌘F).
  3. Go to Windows > Hide Palettes (⌘H).
• HyperCard 1.5. Press ⌘space to toggle menubar (per YMK). But, you'd need to know how to use HyperCard better to get much out of it.
• Aldus Persuasion 2.1.
  1. Go to File > Slideshow.
  2. In Options, select Fullsreen.
  3. Click OK.

68020, 68030, or 68040 with 10+MB RAM: (I'm putting this here because I never realized how demanding these apps were)

• GIFConverter 2.3.7. Press ⌘B to hide menubar.
• JPEGView 3.3.1. Press ⌘F for full screen, and then press ⌘I for slideshow.
• ImageViewer 4.42. Press ⌘F for full screen (ImageViewer is really unstable for me in System 7.5.3).

 

[Mu0n]

@JDW
I'm working on my own slideshow utility with more functions as part of the THINK C group week #2 but I stumbled upon this on Mac Garden. It kinda does the same thing I wanted to do, but limited to Mac Paint files and with less "goodies":

PaintFlipper

PaintFlipper - Macintosh Garden

Application that flips through Macpaint files DL #1 PaintFlipper v1.00

macintoshgarden.org

 

[JDW]

@JDW
I'm working on my own slideshow utility with more functions as part of the THINK C group week #2 but I stumbled upon this on Mac Garden. It kinda does the same thing I wanted to do, but limited to Mac Paint files and with less "goodies":

PaintFlipper

PaintFlipper - Macintosh Garden

Application that flips through Macpaint files DL #1 PaintFlipper v1.00

macintoshgarden.org

Thank you for the link! That would seem to be a very nice solution for my SE or SE/30 machines; but if indeed it only works on System 6 or lower, then it wouldn't work on my LC575 Mystic, as that requires System 7.1 as its minimum OS version.

 

[Mu0n]

Thank you for the link! That would seem to be a very nice solution for my SE or SE/30 machines; but if indeed it only works on System 6 or lower, then it wouldn't work on my LC575 Mystic, as that requires System 7.1 as its minimum OS version.

My one solution will bind them all, in the darkness.

 

[JDW]

Just wanted to update this thread to say that I started using some of the apps proposed in this thread on a 128K Mac, starting out with testing on the 128K RAM edition of Mini vMac. @Mu0n , your app unfortunate seems to require more RAM so it didn't work with 128K, but the "Paint Flipper" app you kindly linked for me DOES work on a 128K Mac.

Full disclosure... I'm testing on the Pico Mac Nano, which is a 128K Mac emulator. And actually there is less than that available RAM due to their use of a 128K Mac Plus ROM rather than the 128K Mac's stock 64K ROM. But despite that, Paint Flipper does work, just not with 10 images. The only caveat is that you need a keyboard attached to switch between the pics, rather than mouse clicks. And when using a Pico Mac Nano, there are times when you ONLY have a mouse. For example, I've not found a way to use both keyboard and mouse with on the BATTERY MODULE powering it.

Anyway, being able to display MacPaint images full screen on vintage Macs is the goal of this thread, so I just wanted to provide an update regarding my current application. Thanks.

 

[Trash80toG4]

I'm right there with you on wanting to display full screen on an SE, but with a catch. I need to go full screen from a Radius FPD Card in my SE in order to map the pixels as they load into VRAM. I'm wildly guessing your explorations might help, so will be reading closely. My goal may be (hopefully will be) a bit less bothersome with no menu bar complications.

Thanks for bringing this one back up front and center!