Save your favourite screens to disk with this utility by
Paul Lay
Have you ever fancied grabbing some stills from
your favourite games and saving them to disk? Its a great way to
prove that you really did get that high score or to keep a record of
the games in your collection. Not just games though, for Screen
Grabber works on just about any program that does not disable the
VBL queue processing, and that includes many of the well known
commercial and public domain programs. Try it, it really does work!
Screen Grabber can save a screen to disk in DEGAS
format in any resolution and works simply by diverting the built in
ALT-HELP printer function to a disk file. The program itself is easy
to use once you have typed it in. Full error checking for the DATA
statements is included so you can't go wrong. Type it in using ST
BASIC and save the program. Now RUN it and GRABBER.PRG will be
created on your disk. Whenever you want to grab some screens, just
run GRABBER.PRG first and then run your favourite program.
Once GRABBER has been run, it will be installed
and will return you to the desktop. Now pressing ALT-HELP together
while another program is running will dump the screen to disk. Up to
10 screens can be saved in one session and these will be called
PICTUREO to PICTURE9 with the appropriate DEGAS format extender
(PI1, PI2 or PI3). If you try and save more than 10 pictures per
session, the earlier ones will be overwritten, so you must take a
break and rename your files if you want more pictures. Apart from
the limitation in the number of files, the only other thing to watch
is that you should not press ALT-HELP during a disk access and
should make sure that you have the correct disk in the drive (with
no write protect!).
Go grab some screens!
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