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WHAT'S NEW IN PCXDUMP VERSION 5.00 ---------------------------------- For those who are curious, Version 5.00 of PCXDUMP contains the following additions and improvements over previous versions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 5.00 - If you install PCXDUMP with a delay with the /TIME or /DISK option, PCXDUMP will now beep when it takes over the INT 09h or/and INT 08h. - It is now possible to capture graphics in virtually any program or game. I have met some problems with a number of Apogee game, such as Commander Keen and many commercial games, such as A10 Tank Killer V 1.5. or Lemmings. However these programs represents different problems. Games such as Keen and Lemmings define a "virtual" screen, which is much bigger than the actuel resolution. This is how they make the impressive smooth scrool in all directions. Games as A10 Tank Killer and many (new) others uses a trick to gain four videopages on a standard VGA display card to optain smooth animation with page flip- ping. Needless to say, PCXDUMP will now work in these modes, but since detecting and manipulation of these special videomodes depends heavily on register reading/writings, PCXDUMP will only recognize these modes, if your videocard is a least a VGA-card. Reason: on an EGA-card, all registers in read-only, sigh! Besides, you won't be able to cut out part of the screen in the special modes: the screen will be saved immediately. - Actually some programs uses a special mode (X) on a VGA-card: 320 x 240 x 256. This mode provides square pixels and 2 display pages on a standard VGA card. PCXDUMP is able to handle this mode also. The most tricky game is BANANOID (a free- ware game), which uses mode X, but defines a virtual screen which is about 500 pixels wide and has smooth horizontal scroll. PCXDUMP will now also capture screens from such nasty programs. - A new option: /NOPEL. This option will prevent PCXDUMP to read a certain register on the graphics card. Reading of this register sometimes blanks the screen while PCXDUMP is dumping graphics (normally the screen reappears when PCXDUMP is finished). This register determines exactly where the screen starts if there is smooth scrool involved (in a 16 color mode). If you explicit tell PCXDUMP not to read this register, PCXDUMP will dump a picture which is 8 pixels wider than the physical display. Later you can cut out precisely the part of the picture you're interested in. - PCXDUMP will now recognize and use VESA-cards. - All these new options will only use additional 400 bytes ! - The registrated version of PCXDUMP will now capture most of all these SuperVGA hires text modes, such as 132x25, 80x60, 132x44 or 100x40 etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 4.02 - It's no longer possible to use the mouse, while PCXDUMP is dumping information to disk. - PCXDUMP will now dump the correct colors in 16 colors VGA text mode, when a custom colormap is used. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 4.0 - The registrated version of PCXDUMP 4.0 will now capture screen in textmodes. Both in color and black and white. - Internal buffersize is now increased to 3600 bytes for better performance. PCXDUMP therefore uses more memory now than previous versions. This also turned out to be necessary to make PCXDUMP handle 32768 colors. - Ahead A/B chipset is now recognized. - The routine to recognized Chips & Technology chipsets are improved. - On TSENG HiColor card, PCXDUMP can be used in the 1280x1024x16 mode incl. all modes with 32768 colors. - On ATI-WONDER cards, PCXDUMP can be used in the 640x480x32768 colors mode. - On Paradise cards PCXDUMP can handle the 640x480x32768 and 800x600x32768 modes incl the 1024x768x256 mode. - PCXDUMP can now be used in CGA mode: 04h = 320x200x4 05h = 320x200x4 06h = 640x200x2 PCXDUMP however still requires minimum an EGA-card to install. - It's now possible to adjust framesize without a mouse, using SPACE and the arrowkeys instead. - PCXDUMP now releases the environment copy. - Much better check for pop-up in busy situa- tions. E.g. PCXDUMP will not pop up as long as INT 13h is active. - The normal hotkey sequence is now ALT+SHIFT (left shift). Previous versions used ALT+CTRL as the hot- key sequence. - There was a minor problem with the EGA- palette in mode 0Dh (320x200x16) and mode 0Eh (640x200x16). In these two modes the palette is a fixed 16 colors palette (and not as in mode 10h 16 colors out of 64). This is now fixed. - PCXDUMP will now beep a low and long tone if the hotkeys is pressed in an unsupported videomode. - PCXDUMP now reads command-line parameters. /ON is necessary to install PCXDUMP (only if none of the other options is used). /OFF will remove PCXDUMP from the memory. /NOSOUND tells PCXDUMP not to use sound. /TIME=number tells PCXDUMP to delay instal- lation of INT 09h number seconds. /DISK=number tells PCXDUMP to delay instal- lation of INT 08h by number calls to INT 13h. INT 09H will be installed 3 sec. after INT 08H. /SHIFT=number. It's now possible to choose between ALT, SHIFT and CTRL in the hotkey sequence. /HOTKEY=number. You can tell PCXDUMP to use you custom hotkey. All others hotkeys will be disabled. PCXDUMP will automatically determine whether to dump a color or mono- chrome image. /CHIPSET=number. Forced PCXDUMP to use a cer- tain chipset. See PCXDUMP.DOC for details. /DIR=directory. Will tell PCXDUMP to put the PCX-files in this directory instead of current directory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 3.80 - VIDEO-7 chipset is now recognized. - CHIPS & TECH chipset is now recognized. - The rutine to recognize TSENG ET3000 is improved. - EGA-card is now accepted again !!! Eventually I got around the EGA-card palette pro- blem. I am using a method to manipulate the "Video Save Pointer Table". It seems to work on GIF-pictures and all the programs I've tested so far, allthough I can't guarantee it to work in every program. - In 2 colors mode, pixels read/write is now direct memory read/write. Dumping a picture i 2 colors mode is now approx. 500 % faster !! - New HOTKEY: ALT+CTRL+R. This gives the ability to dump the whole screen in 2 colors immediately. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 3.70 - It is no longer possible to use PCXDUMP on a plain EGA-card. - OAKTECH-37 chipset is now recognized. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 3.67-3.69 - Some internal improvements. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 3.66 - Corrected a stupid bug that caused the program to crash, if it was activated in textmode! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 3.65 - OAKTECH-67 chipset is now recognized. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 3.60 - Dumping a 16-color screen on a "standard" card is now MUCH faster. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 3.50 - Framesize is now written on screen. Hotkey ALT+CTRL+V is therefore removed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 3.00 - Initial release on the net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.00-2.30 My own versions (not ready for release).