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From: "Rad" <rad@cyberdude.com>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics
Subject: Re: Screenshots
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 18:57:11 -0000
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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Where can I get scrnshot from?

Thanks,

Rad.
rad@cyberdude.com
http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~radpsx

Scott Cartier wrote in message <368AC98E.7916B31B@vmlabs.com>...
>Rad,
>
>I've done it two ways.  I started out by just StoreImageing the
>display portion of VRAM to main memory.  Then when you quit your
>program you can use SIOCONS to download that chunk of memory to your
>PC.  I stopped doing this because it requires a rather large memory
>footprint just for the screenshot (600k for a single hi-res image).
>
>Then I found the "scrnshot" thing from one of the official Yaroze web
>sites (might have been the SCEI even).  It transfers a screenshot by
>doing a sort of "uuencode" on the VRAM, and then simply printfing it
>out (since the resulting stream contains printable characters).  You
>capture this output with a SIOCONS log file (F5) and then run another
>utility to "uudecode" it on your PC.
>
>The cool thing is you can do this while your program is running - no
>need to exit first (as was necessary with the first method).  The bad
>thing is that my SIOCONS likes to drop characters at random.  I had to
>build some redundancy into the routines so it prints each line
>multiple times, and hope at least one of them will be complete.
>
>Scott
>