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Depth&Volume 1.0

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Category:	Utilities
Year released:	1993
Author:	Alessandro Levi Montalcini
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Download DepthVolume_img.sit (9.91 KB)
For System 6.x - Mac OS 9

Emulation
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Depth&Volume is a Control Panel that lets you change the main screen depth (i.e. the number of colors displayed) or the speaker's volume on the fly with a keystroke. Depth&Volume is very small (it uses about 2K of system memory) and very easy to use ... once you get into the habit of remembering the keyboard shortcuts.

The following keys are used to change the display's colour depth (where "#" is the modifier key combination chosen in the Control Panel):

#1 = Change to 1 bit (black and white)
#2 = Change to 2 bit (4 colors or greys)
#3 = Change to 4 bit (16 colors or greys)
#4 = Change to 8 bit (256 colors or greys)
#5 = Change to 16 bit (thousands of colors)
#6 = Change to 32 bit (millions of colors)
#7 = Switch to greyscale mode
#8 = Switch to color mode

The following keys are used to set the speaker volume (where "*" is the modifier key combination chosen in the Control Panel):

*0 = Silent (menu bar flash)
*1 = Volume 1 (quietest)
*2 = Volume 2 (quieter)
*3 = Volume 3 (quiet)
*4 = Volume 4 (medium)
*5 = Volume 5 (loud)
*6 = Volume 6 (louder)
*7 = Volume 7 (loudest)

The Control Panel is on a Disk Copy 4 disk image (1.44MB) inside a StuffIt 3.5 archive.

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Obviously the computer's capabilities will limit which Depth modes will work - you can't change to "Milllions" of colours on a Mac Plus for example.