[kyle988]

I was digging in my basement and found an old Power PC 7100 66 mhz with 40 Meg of Ram running os 7.6.1. It used to be my brothers years ago. so I booted it and it runs good I installed the internet and saved a few pictures to the HDD. they are all .JPG so My question is what program do I need to view them?
EDIT: also in windows you can set a picture as the desktop pattern. how do you do this in 7.6.1 and in 9.0.4?

[doggdamac]

Don't know about OS 7.xxx (before my time!), but on OS 9.xxx, open the Appearance Control Panel, clik the desktop tab, and drag the pic into the little square, then click "set as desktop" or something to that effect......just make sure the pic is not too large (file size) or it could take up alot of your ram just to display it.
that should do it /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[GlennBlaylock]

Give GraphicConverter a try.

[kyle988]

for OS 7.6 what should I convert the JPG to?

os 9 is now displaying the photo as the desktop. now I need os 7.6.1 to

[macnuke]

instead of graphicConverter.. which is a choice program.
I used and use JPEGview...
JpegView for Sys7
this works in your sys 7.
setting the DT pic is basically the same as in any of the classic OS's 7.6-9

[GlennBlaylock]

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for OS 7.6 what should I convert the JPG to?

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With the program that I suggested, you don't need to convert jpgs to any other format.

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os 9 is now displaying the photo as the desktop. now I need os 7.6.1 to

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Do you mean that you want the picture to be come your desktop picture in 7.6.1? If so, I don't think that you can. I don't think that the ability to use a picture as your desktop come along until Mac OS 8.something. There may have been some 3rd party extension that allowed this, but I don't know.

[kyle988]

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Do you mean that you want the picture to be come your desktop picture in 7.6.1? If so, I don't think that you can. I don't think that the ability to use a picture as your desktop come along until Mac OS 8.something. There may have been some 3rd party extension that allowed this, but I don't know.

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oh well. and I dont want to upgrade this one to OS 8.x either (66mhz could be sloooow)

thanks for the help guys

[mystery_stain]

If there is an app on your system called Picture Viewer, it should view jpgs. It was the old version of what is now Preview. It came with the OS.

[Tom_O]

Dcor 3.0.4 (Dcor is now free) is an incredibly cool System extension which allows you to replace the boring desktop pattern with a background picture of your choice. Decor handles StartupScreen, PICT, GIF and JPEG files. It has a lot of great features; for instance, you can ask it to select pictures from a certain folder, and to pick a new one every 10 minutes. It is now accelerated for PowerPCs.

Jade 1.2 requires little Ram and has most of the features of JPEGView, but it's quicker. It views jpg, gif, pict and tiff. A great free image viewer and still the best slide show application going
JPEGView 3.3.1 - For viewing GIF, JPG, PICT, TIFF etc. Old but still one of the best graphics viewer around if you have an older OS. You might want to pump up it's memory allocation for quicker loading.

[kyle988]

decor is now installed and I see the picture /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Praxis]

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so I booted it and it runs good I installed the internet and saved a few pictures to the HDD.

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You installed the Internet? Wow, you must have a big Hard Drive...
/forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[kyle988]

/forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif a whole 500 MB Hard Drive Its Huge!

[macnuke]

500M HDD???
I was under the impression Ol' Bill said we would NEVER need more than 640k RAM or 10M worth of HDD? I may be mistaken, but then again I digress from this thread.
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