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#Printer dump

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#34607From: Mike ButtonSep 28, 1986 12:39 PM
I rented a game called 'Temple of Apshai TRILOGY'. The startup screen is realy neat looking. I want to know if there is anyway that I can dump what is on the screen to the printer.(A key combonation or some thing.) Mike
#34611From: Don Curtis/SYSOPSep 28, 1986 1:28 PM
Mike, There is no built in function like the MS-DOS PrtSc key combination but programs are available that can do a screen dump. We have one here in DL6 called SCNDMP.EXE and there is a commercial program called GRABBIT that will do dumps. I do not know if either will work with Temple. Don
#34611From: Don Curtis/SYSOPSep 28, 1986 1:28 PM
Mike, There is no built in function like the MS-DOS PrtSc key combination but programs are available that can do a screen dump. We have one here in DL6 called SCNDMP.EXE and there is a commercial program called GRABBIT that will do dumps. I do not know if either will work with Temple. Don
#34618From: HR LaserSep 28, 1986 2:36 PM
Well if there's any way to load a printer/screen dumper routine, such as Scrimper or Scrndump or grabbit and still be able to load the GAME so your screen dumper doesn't go away, then yes you should be able to dump the screen. I've dumped (in color) the title screen and playfield for Chessmaster 2000 this way.. However if the game disk requires that you reboot the computer to load the game, then when you do that, your memory-resident screen dumper will go away, and you'll not be able to print the screen. You might also do a DIR of the game disk and see if the title screen is there as a freestanding picture file. If that's the case you could maybe use a p/d viewer or a commercial paint program to look at the screen and print it, but only if the title screen is freestanding. It could be imbedded in the program itself in which case you are basically out of luck. Grabbit's claim to be able to "Print any Screen" is a misnomer since it makes the assumption that you can hold Grabbit in memory while you load other software. On a game that requires re-booting to load, this just isn't possible (yet).
#34618From: HR LaserSep 28, 1986 2:36 PM
Well if there's any way to load a printer/screen dumper routine, such as Scrimper or Scrndump or grabbit and still be able to load the GAME so your screen dumper doesn't go away, then yes you should be able to dump the screen. I've dumped (in color) the title screen and playfield for Chessmaster 2000 this way.. However if the game disk requires that you reboot the computer to load the game, then when you do that, your memory-resident screen dumper will go away, and you'll not be able to print the screen. You might also do a DIR of the game disk and see if the title screen is there as a freestanding picture file. If that's the case you could maybe use a p/d viewer or a commercial paint program to look at the screen and print it, but only if the title screen is freestanding. It could be imbedded in the program itself in which case you are basically out of luck. Grabbit's claim to be able to "Print any Screen" is a misnomer since it makes the assumption that you can hold Grabbit in memory while you load other software. On a game that requires re-booting to load, this just isn't possible (yet).