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Does someone know about a screen grabber for SVGA in DOS that WORKS in Windows' DOS?


Programs claiming to work for SVGA I have tried:

ScreenThief
Works only for SVGA chips no one remembers..Tseng, Trident, S3, no VESA option

ProGrabber
Does nothing...

VideoThief 0.07 is a two part program ( grabber and viewer) Works, with two bugs:
Does'nt grab the entire screen if the line length has been changed
The viewer does'nt convert the grab file to bmp correctly for 16 bits vesa with line length changed..
The programmer Andrew Aksyonoff can't be reached at the e-mail supplied (the program is 5 years old)

PCXDMP93
Crippleware: just displays an image saying the program is too old and I should buy it


Blitz: What do you use to grab uGL screens?

The best thing you can do is embed a screen grabber in your program. That's what I've been doing for ages in allegro or Future.LIB.

Future.LIB already has a routine to dump a screen to a .BMP file =)

Seeing the grabbers around, yours seems the best solution!
I was hoping someone could come with a good grabber I did'nt find and save me from coding one into the program...
Thanks!

There is no good one.

Well, the one which came with Neopaint 3 for MSDOS saved my ass in couple of times... It is called NEOGRAB.EXE and (apparently) works with VESA 1.2 modes and maybe VESA 2.0 (can't remember).

Latest version of Neopaint can be downloaded from http://www.neosoftware.com , shareware stuff. Look for the MSDOS version.

Thanks all!