stiles@druhi.ATT.COM (K. L. Stiles) (11/23/87)
Does anyone know a "trick" or any way to print (on ImageWriter) whatever is on the screen of an Apple IIe? A friend of mine has an Apple and relies on me for "technical advice", so I'd appreciate any advice you Apple II experts could pass along. Thanks in advance, Kevin Stiles @AT&T, Denver
jdf@pbhyc.UUCP (11/24/87)
And for that matter does anyone know how to do a print screen on an apple //gs to an imagewriter? Sure would be a nice tool. Jack
kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) (11/28/87)
In article <2404@druhi.ATT.COM> stiles@druhi.ATT.COM (K. L. Stiles) writes: >Does anyone know a "trick" or any way to print (on ImageWriter) >whatever is on the screen of an Apple IIe? A friend of mine has >an Apple and relies on me for "technical advice", so I'd >appreciate any advice you Apple II experts could pass along. > > Thanks in advance, Kevin Stiles @AT&T, Denver One of the problems with trying to do this is that the page two switch also flips memory banks. I'll see if I can crank out a simple program to do this, or dig it out of an old Open-Apple - - I remember they had something about it. Sean kamath P.S. ever wonder why I never capitalize my last name? I try to, but I never get my pinky on the shift key in time. . .Besides, it's my login. -- UUCP: {decvax allegra ucbcad ucbvax hplabs ihnp4}!tektronix!reed!kamath CSNET: reed!kamath@Tektronix.CSNET || BITNET: reed!kamath@Berkeley.BITNET ARPA: tektronix!reed!kamath@Berkeley <or> reed!kamath@hplabs US Snail: 3934 SE Boise, Portland, OR 97202 (I hate 4 line .sigs!)
halp@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU.UUCP (11/30/87)
IMAGE PRINTER ][, a DOS3.3 printing and modest graphics program published by Sensible Software in 1982 (may no longer be disd) can capture a picture in HIRES page 1. It can then be manipulated, save, printed. Of course, the DOS3.3 aspect is not too great, nor is the absence of double hi-res. ****DISCLAMER: My comments, etc., are my own shakey opinions ******** | Bruce P. Halpern Psychology & Neurobiology & Behavior Cornell Ithaca | | ARPA: halp@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu | | BITNET: HALP@CRNLTHRY D57J@CORNELLA D57J@CRNLVAX5 | | PHONE: 607-255-6433 Uris Hall, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY 14853-7601 |
lhoward@esunix.UUCP (Larry Howard) (01/21/88)
in article <2404@druhi.ATT.COM>, stiles@druhi.ATT.COM (K. L. Stiles) says: > Does anyone know a "trick" or any way to print (on ImageWriter) > whatever is on the screen of an Apple IIe? A friend of mine has > an Apple and relies on me for "technical advice", so I'd > appreciate any advice you Apple II experts could pass along. The only way I know of to do quick and immediate screen dumps is by the use of a card called "The Fingerprint +". This card is a serial and parallel printer card (at the same time!) although only one type of cable comes with the card when you buy it. It is manufactured by Thirdware Products Inc. based out of Florida and costs about $75 depending on who you buy it from. There have been numerous reviews of this card in magazines such as Computist. The card does more than just do screen dump, but it does those extreamly well! It operates by the pressing of a small, user placeable switch pad. This causes the card to send an NMI to the CPU and the card takes over totally. A menu pops up giving you your choices. My favorites are paging through the video memory and picking out what I want to print, rotating the picture 90 degrees, and enlarging it. For those of us lucky enough to have a color printer, there is an option for color screen dumps as well. The inverse video option sometimes makes the color picture turn out much better than the straight screen dump. You may also save the screen to a disk for later printing/editing if so desired. The card also has a typewriter function that allows you to type directly to the printer, maybe to give a title for the screen dump? The picture produced is about 40x30 characters with the enlarged picture being about 90x70 (i.e. you have to rotate it to fit it on a normal 8.5"x11" piece of paper). You may also have the picture tabed to a specific part of the paper if more than one picture per page is desired, or maybe for a report or something! All I can say is that I have enjoyed using mine for about 1.5 years now, and it's been worth every penny. I use both ports for screen dumps and have not had a moments trouble doing it. There is even a money back guarantee for the more cautious ones. -- Larry Howard {ihnp4,seismo}!utah-cs!utah-gr!uplherc!esunix!lhoward One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns, and meeting new people. G. Kahn