capture full screen from an old MS-DOS program running under XP

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Hello,
I managed to find plenty of free screen capture programmes. So far not one
of them was able to capture full screens from an old MS-DOS program running
under XP. They either freeze or return a black rectangle. Any suggestions
would be greatly appreciated.
Regards, VK.
 
Hello,
I managed to find plenty of free screen capture programmes. So far not one
of them was able to capture full screens from an old MS-DOS program running
under XP. They either freeze or return a black rectangle. Any suggestions
would be greatly appreciated.
Regards, VK.
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Try Irfanview, use the delayed Capture feature.

John .\\orse
 
Hello,
I managed to find plenty of free screen capture programmes. So far not one
of them was able to capture full screens from an old MS-DOS program running
under XP. They either freeze or return a black rectangle. Any suggestions
would be greatly appreciated.
Regards, VK.
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I tinkered around with this on Win ME and wound up wondering why you
insist on literally a full screen when the DOS Window can be expanded
to about 80% of the screen height and 100% of its width. I presume you
have a similar situation with XP? There are, in a sense, three
different screen size presentations involved. Pressing Alt-Enter
toggles full screen on and off. But while in "small screen" or the
small DOS window on the desktop you can click the maximize box at the
upper right to enlarge the size. Then typical screen captures are all
you need, such as the Capture facility of IrfanView.

There's something else that works on my PC as well, and that's the
Print Screen/Sys Rq key which captures the screen to the clipboard. In
"pure" full screen I get a black and white capture of a color screen
produced by a DOS program putting up a text mode screen. It doesn't
look very nice though :(


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
Try Irfanview, use the delayed Capture feature.
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It doesn't seems to work for the fullscreen dos capture.
But it's a great way to make a screenshot including a menu opened.
Thanks I just needed that.
 
I tinkered around with this on Win ME and wound up wondering why you
insist on literally a full screen when the DOS Window can be expanded
to about 80% of the screen height and 100% of its width. I presume you
have a similar situation with XP? There are, in a sense, three
different screen size presentations involved. Pressing Alt-Enter
toggles full screen on and off. But while in "small screen" or the
small DOS window on the desktop you can click the maximize box at the
upper right to enlarge the size. Then typical screen captures are all
you need, such as the Capture facility of IrfanView.

There's something else that works on my PC as well, and that's the
Print Screen/Sys Rq key which captures the screen to the clipboard. In
"pure" full screen I get a black and white capture of a color screen
produced by a DOS program putting up a text mode screen. It doesn't
look very nice though :(
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Thank you very much for your explanations.
I did not know about Alt-Enter and using it solved the problem for me.
With best regards, VK
 
I tinkered around with this on Win ME and wound up wondering why you
insist on literally a full screen when the DOS Window can be expanded
to about 80% of the screen height and 100% of its width. I presume you
have a similar situation with XP? There are, in a sense, three
different screen size presentations involved. Pressing Alt-Enter
toggles full screen on and off. But while in "small screen" or the
small DOS window on the desktop you can click the maximize box at the
upper right to enlarge the size. Then typical screen captures are all
you need, such as the Capture facility of IrfanView.

There's something else that works on my PC as well, and that's the
Print Screen/Sys Rq key which captures the screen to the clipboard. In
"pure" full screen I get a black and white capture of a color screen
produced by a DOS program putting up a text mode screen. It doesn't
look very nice though :(


Art
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I get a full screen on my XP system by having a .bat file in c:/program
files/MSDOS, where I also store most of my DOS programs. Bat file:

@echo off
cmd

The .bat file is run from a desktop shortcut which is set to open maximised.
This opens DOS full screen (if it does not, the default size and colours can
be permanently adjusted by right-clicking on the blue title bar) while still
leaving the Windows Taskbar visible.

I have Gadwin Print Screen on the Taskbar which can be adjusted to capture
to jpg file and/or send to printer.
URL for Gadwin is http://www.gadwin.com/ Printing is in colour, even though
I cannot print directly from DOS as it does not recognise my USB port.

I hope this is helpful.

===

Frank Bohan
¶ Many are cold, but few are frozen.
 
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