15 Mar
2006
15 Mar
'06
7:02 p.m.
On 3/15/2006 at 8:43 PM Jim Leonard wrote:
One problem I had with my screen capture programs was seeing if they were
actually doing anything. The snow would have been helpful, but you don't
get that on MDA :). So I just disabled the video during the capture,
resulting in a nice visible "blink". That would have also taken care of
the CGA snow issue.
Cheers,
Chuck
Poll? How did you do this, and why was it necessary?
I've written
screen capture programs before and I just dump straight to a file...
If you're working off a keypressed interrupt, you could never be sure that
DOS was in a reentrant state. So you save the capture information, check
the "INDOS" flag. If it's clear, go ahead and write. Otherwise, hook the
timer interrupt and try again in 55 msec.
> They were panicy about the CGA snow! They were
worried about whether it
> was damaging the monitor, etc.
> So, I told them that it was just the "flash" from taking the picture,
and
that it was a
"FEATURE", to show whether the image had been successfully
Oh my :-)