Path: news1.icaen!news.uiowa.edu!news1.chicago.iagnet.net!qual.net!iagnet.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!pln-w!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!newsgate.swbell.net!swbell!not-for-mail From: Rubywand Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Screen Copy ? Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 09:13:32 -0600 Organization: Southwestern Bell Internet Services, Richardson, TX Lines: 104 Message-ID: <34F97B1C.3508133B@swbell.net> References: <34f754fc.0@poobah.olywa.net> Reply-To: rubywand@swbell.net NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-207-193-8-159.hstntx.swbell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nnrp1 888765106 24833 (None) 207.193.8.159 X-Complaints-To: usenet@nnrp1 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Xref: news1.icaen comp.sys.apple2:130847 victor writes ... > > Is it possible to make ( save as picture) a screen copy with a GS ? Yes. How much bother is involved depends upon the screen display you want to capture. For super-res game screens and many other graphics displays (like a Platinum Paint screen) an ancient CDA known as "EA Screen Saver", "SDUMP.EA", etc. works well. It has been uploaded to Ground and A2-Caltech in a .SHK file named "ScrnCap.SHK" along with a Text info file and should be available for download soon. You can use GS-ShrinkIt to unShrink SCRNCAP.SHK to obtain the screen capture utility itself, named "ScrnCapEA.CDA" and docs in a Text file named "SCap.Readme.txt". Below is some more information about ScrnCapEA.CDA: >> What ScrnCapEA.CDA Does ScrnCapEA.CDA lets you capture game, etc. 320 or 640 mode graphic screens as standard type $C1 GS unpacked Screen files which can be loaded by Platinum Paint and many other GS utilities. ScrnCapEA.CDA will not capture true Desktop displays. For example, you can not use it to capture your Finder display. To use ScrnCapEA.CDA to capture a screen, you must be able to access the Desk Accessories menu via the usual OpenApple-Control-Escape keypress. Some programs shut off access to the Desk Accessories menu. You will not be able to use ScrnCapEA.CDA to capture screens from these programs. How to Use ScrnCapEA.CDA to Capture Screens When you see a screen you want to capture, press OpenApple-Control-Escape to get to the Desk Accessories menu. Highlight "EA Screen Saver" and press Return. If there is no Beep, the screen has been saved. ScrnCapEA.CDA saves captured screens as Screen files named "Screen.0", "Screen.1", ..., etc.. The number is automatically incremented for each capture. Viewing and Naming Captured Screen Pics Use Platinum Paint or some similar GS paint utility to load-in and view your pics. Platinum Paint will let you save the pics with a more descriptive name and, if you wish, as standard compressed files which take up less disk space than Screen files. << Supertimer mentioned Clipit. This is a very nice capture NDA which lets you grab a part or all of many super-res displays, including desktop displays. The grabbed display is saved to the Clipboard. You can get the pic from the Clipboard onto a Platinum Paint work screen by going to Platinum Paint and doing a Paste. A limitation of Clipit and similar NDA's is that you must be able to get to the 'Apple' menu or some NDA activation list or, if it there is one, activate a 'Hot Key'. Also, these NDA's generally limit your grab to the Clipboard. Usually, this means you end up with just one pic per game, etc. session. Games and other programs which shut off access to interrupts will, often, be a problem. You will usually not be able to get to the Desk Accessories menu and any screen capture 'Hot Key' keypresses will be ignored. Usually, the 'Apple Menu' is not available, so screen capture NDA's you use via the menu will not be available, either. Sometimes, these programs include a built-in screen save feature; otherwise, capturing a screen will take special measures. One way to capture most otherwise un-grabbable super-res screens is via a ProDOS-8 super-res utility which can save the super-res screen. The utility must be one which does not, itself, change the super-res screen upon startup (e.g. Nibble's SuperPac or a save/disp program you write yourself). Make sure your Startup Slot is set to Slot 5. Start the game, etc. as usual. At some point insert a bootable ProDOS-8 diskette with the super-res disp/save utility into Slot 5, Drive 1. When you see the display you want to grab (and you are sure no Disk writes are occuring) do an OpenApple-CTRL-Reset boot, start the disp/save program and save the screen. Obviously, a disadvantage of this approach is that you get kicked out of whatever game, etc. you are running at the time of the boot. Rubywand