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WHAT'S NEW IN GRABBER(tm) VERSION 3.94
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For those who are curious, Version 3.94 of GRABBER, a shareware
release, contains the following additions and improvements.
Corresponding changes have been made to the registered release.
* GREDIT.EXE, GR2ASCII.EXE and GR2ANSI.EXE -- These utilities
are being released
as part of the unregistered GRABBER package for the first time
with Version 3.94. GREDIT is a text-only screen editor and has
its own documentation file. GR2ASCII and GR2ANSI are command-line
utilities which convert captured text screens to plain ASCII and
ANSI graphics formats, respectively. They are documented in
the CONVERT.DOC file.
* GRABBER.EXE and GRTXT.EXE -- In both of these programs, the
old command-line configuration
options have been changed from cryptic "slash-somethingorother"
switches to more or less plain English words. For example,
/M+ and /M- have been changed to MOUSE and NOMOUSE, respectively,
and /U has been changed to UNLOAD. The new vocabulary is listed
in the revised .DOC files for these programs.
* GRABBER.EXE and GRTXT.EXE -- In both programs, it is now
possible to define a hotkey which
consists only of a combination of shift keys, i.e. <Ctrl>, <Alt>
and the <Shift> keys. This may allow GRABBER and GRTXT to capture
screens from some foreground applications which commandeer the
keyboard hardware almost (but not quite) entirely. Experiment.
* GR2PCX.EXE and GR2GIF.EXE -- Corrected a serious bug which
had crept into the previous
revision (October 1991) of these utilities. The bug caused a
system crash when these programs were used to convert a super-VGA
graphic image on a system which does not have VESA BIOS compat-
ibility. Some users assumed that the shareware issue of GRABBER
was not intended to be able to handle super-VGA conversions, but
this is not so. It is, and (now, finally) does.
WHAT'S NEW IN GRABBER(tm) VERSION 3.93
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* GRABBER.EXE -- A new command-line option switch, /L, has been
added. VGA users who get garbled screen captures
from certain types of graphics applications, notably animated
games such as "Commander Keen," "Crystal Caves" and others, should
experiment with the /L+ switch when installing GRABBER in memory.
This enables GRABBER to make a more intelligent guess as to the
video memory scheme being employed by the foreground program.
It will work on many VGAs, but not all. If /L+ does not solve the
problem, or creates a new one by causing super-VGA captures to
become scrambled too, it should be disabled by entering the
command: GRABBER /L-. [NOTE: /L+ and /L- were changed to
VGAREGS and NOVGAREGS, respectively, in Version 3.94.]
* GRABBER.EXE -- New techniques have been employed which should
result in more reliable screen captures for users
of Microsoft's Flight Simulator, Version 4.X, and any other
animated graphics applications which work similarly. It appears
that Flight Simulator attempts to continue manipulating the
EGA/VGA hardware registers in the background after GRABBER has
been popped-up by the user, causing a variety of undesirable
results. V3.93 corrects this by shutting off Flight Simulator's
background activities entirely for the duration of the screen
capture operation.