[Floppertalk] A little request...EGA screen shot support

jleyda floppertalk@oldskool.org
Fri, 23 Aug 2002 13:47:45 -0600


hey all,
 
I just found some sample source code in my archives for doing EGA screen
captures that Jim wrote almost exactly 3 years ago.
 
They're written in pascal, so I need to digest it a bit and convert it to
assembly to implement into flopper, but I don't think this will be a huge
job.  It'll at least happen earlier than october!
 
Standby...
 
-jeff!

-----Original Message-----
From: rogerio souza [mailto:rcs1234@hotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 9:27 AM
To: floppertalk@oldskool.org
Subject: Re: [Floppertalk] A little request...Where to get Ikari Warriors.



No problem Jim!! You are the man! I think that I can survive without this
until October.

Thanks to everyone for the replies and keep with the good work!

Regards,

Roger Coltrane.

> 

>Sorry I'm so late into this, things have been rather busy with
www.demodvd.org 
>(we're trying to ship in October and it's slow going). 
> 
>EGA screen capture is easily implemented, but to someone who's never worked

>with bitplanes it can be a bit daunting. If I weren't bogged down with 
>MindCandy, I'd be more than happy to write a small test program that would 
>draw a simple EGA screen, save it to disk, and restore it back, and the
source 
>code would be Jeff-readable. But I won't lie; I just don't have time right 
>now. I will after October, so maybe it can wait until then? 
> 
>rogerio souza wrote: 
> > 
> > Maybe we should ask Demonlord to do this conversion for us. He is the
guy 
> > who have done most of the booter conversions to executables (World
Karate 
> > Championship and Ikari II are some examples). He is also the author of
many 
> > PC game cracks. 
> > 
> > But the problem of this one is that this game uses 2 image files that
need 
> > to be swapped 'on the fly' (instead of these others that I mentioned
before 
> > that uses only 1 disk image). In this case I think that is easier to 
> > implement the EGA screen capture. 
> > 
> > Roger. 
> > 
> > > 
> > >yes, alas, this is the flopper only boot image version of the game. 
> > >I was looking for a DOS executable, mostly to get me out of having to 
> > >support EGA screenshots! ;) 
> > > 
> > >http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?name=Ikari+Warriors 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >-jeff! 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >-----Original Message----- 
> > >From: John Duggan [mailto:jduggan@attcanada.net] 
> > >Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 2:42 PM 
> > >To: floppertalk@oldskool.org 
> > >Subject: Re: [Floppertalk] A little request...Where to get Ikari
Warriors. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >Hi Guys! 
> > > 
> > >You can download Ikari Warriors at http://www.the-underdogs.org/ 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >I haven't tried it but many, probably most, of their games will run on 
> > >Win98. Hope this helps. 
> > > 
> > >Enjoy! And... 
> > > 
> > >Have Fun! 
> > > 
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> > >----- Original Message ----- 
> > >From: jleyda 
> > >To: floppertalk@oldskool.org 
> > >Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 10:29 AM 
> > >Subject: RE: [Floppertalk] A little request... 
> > > 
> > >Jim? any advice on this one? 
> > > 
> > >Isn't there a bit in the bios data area that I can determine if the
machine 
> > >is running in EGA, then it's just a matter of capturing 8k of data
right? 
> > >or is it 16k? I know it's non interlaced, so I'll have to jump to a 
> > >completely seperate screenshot routine. 
> > > 
> > >Sorry roger, I can do the code, but I'm really quite video mode dumb! 
> > > 
> > >It's funny that you mentioned this game though, as I was just looking
to 
> > see 
> > >if anyone has converted the booter to a DOS game just yesterday. I
could 
> > >only find Ikari warriors II: Victory Road as a DOS conversion. 
> > > 
> > >Perhaps I'll have to do that too? :) 
> > > 
> > >-jeff! 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message----- 
> > >From: rogerio souza [mailto:rcs1234@hotmail.com] 
> > >Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 6:39 PM 
> > >To: floppertalk@oldskool.org 
> > >Subject: [Floppertalk] A little request... 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >Hi, 
> > > 
> > >I´m currently using Flopper to run an old DOS booter game called Ikari 
> > >Warriors, but I can only run it in EGA video mode and I want to take
some 
> > >screen snapshots of this game. Is it very difficult to implement the
EGA 
> > >screen capture into Flopper?? 
> > > 
> > >Thanks for reading. 
> > > 
> > >Regards, 
> > >Roger Coltrane 
> > > 
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