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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.
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- * 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.
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- * 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.
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- * 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.
-
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- * 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.
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- 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.]
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- * 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.
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