noring@netcom.UUCP (Jon Noring) (11/23/90)
I'd like to find a public domain, shareware, or "payware" super-vga screen grabber utility for my pc-clone running MS-DOS 4.01. It must be able to handle up to 1024x768x256 and output either a .GIF file or some other format that can easily be converted to a gif. My video board is an Orchid ProDesigner II w/1Mb. I'm considering Grabber version 3.50 which sells for $59. However, I'm not sure it'll do the job (a shareware version is available which can only handle lower resolution - it also outputs the format in an executable .exe file, and I don't know how to convert this to a gif). Leads to sources: commercial, over the Internet or from bbs's would be most appreciated. Jon Noring
lalibert@bcarh188.bnr.ca (Luc Laliberte) (11/23/90)
I have written one for the standard VGA 320x200x256 mode. And I'm intending on extending it into the super VGA modes. However I have an ATI card which makes the programs useless to you. (Unless I go to VESA support.) However, writing your own is not that difficult. A simple TSR to dump the screen to disk (I grabbed the PrtScr interrupt.) and another to change it into a GIF file that can be written in a higher language. (I wrote mine in Watcom C.) This way you can customize your program for your card and detect all of its modes. Don't forget the palette when you're dumping to disk. This signature intentionall left blank