OT: zoom screen display in OS 9?

Geoff Wallace gwallace at mac.com
Sun Jul 13 05:23:46 PDT 2003


Hello Tom,

You need to install the Close View Control Panel from an OS 9 Installer CD,
usually in a folder called Universal Access. This has a similar function as
the OS X Universal Access Turn on Zoom.

Geoff WALLACE
Melbourne Victoria Australia
Mobile 0412 056 033

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On 13/07/2003 04:53 PM, "Tom R. no spam" <tr5374 at csc.albany.edu> wrote:

> (Since apparently some of the members of this list know about
> using speech recognition to deal with complexities of
> typewritten communication, I'm speculating someone might have
> a lead to a list dealing with Macs and complexities of vision.)
> 
> Anyone know how to get OS 9 to zoom the screen display on an
> lcd screen (iBook or alBook, specifically in mind), like
> OS 10.2.6 can do it by turning on zoom in the Universal Access
> System Preference?  Ie, not changing the screen resolution, as
> can be done in the OS 9 Monitors Control Panel, but zooming the
> display without changing the resolution setting.  I've tried
> running OS 9 applications in Classic in OS X and using X's
> zooming (option-cmd-+/- key combinations), but that zooms only
> the OS X material in the display, and merely blanks (white)
> the screen area which is Classic's OS 9 windows.  Just zooming
> regular OS 9, not OS 9 apps running in Classic, would be a
> useful start; zooming Classic along with OS X would be a treat.
> TIA.
> 
> 
> 
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