Twitch
©1995 By Alex Rampell

Introduction

Introducing Twitch, the easiest and most powerful way to change your computer’s monitor depth—that is, how many colors (or shades of gray) it displays.  Now, using the Apple way, you either have to go to the Monitors control panel, exiting whatever application you’re using, or use an AppleScript (w/ System 7.5), either way cumbersome.  But with Twitch, you can change the monitor depth on the fly, with a single key or mouse click, even, for example, while (or before) playing a game!
Now there are a great deal of monitor depth-changing utilities out there, but Twitch is, by far, the easiest, most configurable, and most powerful.
Let’s Get Started

In order to install and start using Twitch (which is a control panel), drag it into your Control Panels folder, which is in your System Folder.  Now, restart.
Twitch “comes” with a set of built-in preferences.
Using these built in preferences, you can change the monitor depth by holding down the Control and Shift keys and clicking the mouse *anywhere* on the screen.

When you do so, a pop up menu will come up listing all available monitor depth levels (as well as a color/Grays menu)

Configuration

Twitch allows different configurations, namely using any combination of keys.  This section will show you how.
Here’s a description of what each button does, but first, how the whole thing works.

Now, as shown above, there are buttons Command, Control, Option, and Shift, which are “modifiers” that you choose to change the monitor depth.

You can use any combination of keys, and, along with a mouse click, a pop up menu will come up.
Registration

As soon as you installed Twitch, you got the annoying (sorry folks) reminder message.  This is reminding you to send in your shareware fee.  This software is not free!  Just as you have to pay to buy software in a store, you have to pay to use software known as shareware.  Shareware is a unique system of distribution that relies on honesty, and works by letting the user try before he/she buys.  Imagine if we could do that with Word® 6.0!  (Microsoft Word 6.0 is a registered trademark of Microsoft, Inc.)
What this means is that you have a reasonable amount of time, say 15 days, to fairly evaluate this software, and if you continue to use it, you are expected to pay a fee to license the software.  When your fee is received, you will receive a registration code to eliminate all messages.
Send $6 to:
Alex Rampell
1186 North Ocean Way
Palm Beach, FL 33480

Other Stuff...

That’s about all the info you need to know...one more thing, actually: holding down the Control key on startup will stop the loading of Twitch.  This software is a knocked-off part of the Volume/Depth Switcher program, only includes one more feature.  Volume/Depth Switcher is a $10 control panel that includes these four functions:
-A 1-2K, simple screensaver.
-A sound volume changer.
-A monitor depth changer.
-A disk ejector.

Volume/Depth Switcher combines all these functions into one easy control panel, and is available on America On-Line.

Each individual feature of Volume/Depth Switcher will all be available as separate, $6 control panels that add a few features.

Other Stuff...(con’d)

I’d like to thank Ken Worley, for his sample control panel program, and although this program doesn’t use it, his is what got me started.
I’d also like to thank my beta-testers, and everyone who has supported shareware.
And James W. Walker, for this excellent help system that you're using:)