15 Mar
2006
15 Mar
'06
6:43 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
4000 byte buffer when the "magic" key combo
was pressed, and then poll for
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...
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 :-)
captured. Such misstatements have a way of coming
back to bite you - then
they wanted me to add the "flash" to the MDA captures.
So just XOR every screen word as you read it ;-)
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