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Sekka
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Posted: 6th Apr 2004 15:55
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Hi

This is an odd question. I have a old DOS game called "Raptor: Call of the Shadow", anyone remember it??

Anyway, I'm doing a recreation in DBPro, and I want to use all the same graphics, so therefore I need to take print screens of the original game.

But for some reason I cant take print screens in the old DOS game.

I'm running Windows XP Pro, which I know has a funny wierd Windows DOS, but why!!

Anyone know how I could take screenies?

Thanks

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BatVink
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Posted: 6th Apr 2004 17:13
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Try download.com, there are a number of screen-grabbing programs.

Your problem is probably something to do with the DOS window running in it's own kernel.

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Posted: 6th Apr 2004 17:19
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I'd be running spybot S&D and Adaware6 prior to downloading and installing anything from download.com. I don't know what happened to those guys but the last time I dloaded something from there it installed a whole slew of software/spy software which I didn't ask for and was never informed of.


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Sekka
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Posted: 6th Apr 2004 17:30
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Didnt know there were print screen programs, thanks ye all

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zircher
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Posted: 6th Apr 2004 17:57
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You might want to see if Raptor has a screen print function built in(F11 and F12 were popular with some DOS games.)

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BatVink
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Posted: 6th Apr 2004 18:44
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Addendum to CattleRustler's comment:
It's a good idea to read users comments, you generally find a reference to whether Spyware is hidden in the application. If you know it has spyware, leave it alone!

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Sekka
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Posted: 6th Apr 2004 19:54
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Tried all the F keys in game, no joy, aint tried Download.com yet, downloading a 1.7GB file, will do when it's done in 20 mins or so

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Posted: 6th Apr 2004 20:22
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what are you downloading that is 1.7 Gigs?


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AI666
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Quote: "what are you downloading that is 1.7 Gigs?"


And how does he do it in freakin' 20 minutes?

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he must have meant 1.7 megs on dail up. Altho I did download 3 gigs from an ftp server and it took around an hour but that was on my sweet cable modem.


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DrakeX
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"I did download 3 gigs from an ftp server and it took around an hour"

i hate you.

raptor! i do remember that game. those top-down plane shooters were pretty popular back then.

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