[ibookuser2]

I'm in the process of building a digital photo frame out of a PowerBook 190c (taking the guts from it and mounting them in a picture frame, so it can show images and I can hang it on the wall.) The PowerBook 190c can only display 256 colors at a time, which is a problem (most photos look pretty bad with the system palette.) However, if I use a selective color palette for each photo, they don't look too bad.

Initially I thought to use GraphicConverter to run a slideshow on it. However, when GraphicConverter runs a slideshow, it uses the system palette for images rather than the image's selective palette. If I open the images individually (i.e. to edit them) they show up correctly, with the selective palette, but whenever I go back to slideshow mode, it reverts to using the system palette.

Does anyone have any suggestions for software that runs on a 68k mac that will run a slideshow of images that I could try? Ideally I'd like something scriptable, so that I can control it automatically without needing a mouse/keyboard/VNC.

I realize I might not get very much help here, since I'm asking about software for hardware that's over a decade out of date, but I'm hoping that someone might remember a good slideshow app that they used back on their old mac.

[Apfhex]

A digital photo frame out of that! I can't offer any help, but I am intrigued by your idea and hope you succeed in your efforts (I myself probably wouldn't have even considered it in the first place with only a 256 color display).

[ibookuser2]

Yeah, the 256-color passive-display PowerBook is not ideal. However, as far as projects go, it really isn't a lot of work to build a digital frame, and I just had the machine lying around, so I figured I'd do it anyway. It actually doesn't look too bad with most photographs in indexed color with a custom palette for each photo. I've also allowed for a little extra room in the frame, so if I happen to obtain a better machine for it, I should be able to put it in without rebuilding the whole thing.

I did some more searching this morning and came across a piece of software I had long forgotten: JPEGView. It's nice and scriptable, does slideshows, and displays each photo with its own custom palette. Looks like it's going to do the trick quite nicely.

If people are interested, I'll post pictures and perhaps a how-to when I get it finished (probably over in the Mac Modification forum.)

[analogika]

hm.

what about JPEGView? should be on Versiontracker. I'm not sure about its use of colorspace, but I remember using it for slideshows...

[C.J. Moof]

My 20th Ann Mac runs slideshows via jpegview, and the results are quite good. I'm not limited to 256 colors, however.

[midwinter]

What about a QT movie?