Taking a Screenshot in a DOS Game.

[Rainecloud]

Well, it's not really DOS, it's just the Windows XP version of DOS. Anyway, I'm trying to take a screenshot from an old Windows 95 game. It's playing perfectly, but the screenshots just come out as plain white images. I presume this is either :a) some sort of protection, or b) the fact that Windows XP doesn't really like playing DOS games.

Any ideas on how I'd capture a screenshot from a game that runs in DOS?

[Flying Mullet]

How have you tried to take the screenshot so far?

[Rainecloud]

Alt + Print Screen. xD

I know no other ways, I'm afraid.

[Flying Mullet]

Heh, that's what I was going to suggest. :)

Okay, I just wanted to make sure I wouldn't suggest anything that you'd already tried.

[crono_logical]

I'd run the game in a PC emulator like VirtualPC or VMWare (you'll have to install Windows etc. inside there too), then printscreen should work fine if the emulator isn't fullscreened :p

[Dr Unne]

Open up the control menu (the one you get by clicking the icon in the upper-left of a window), and there should be an Edit submenu or something; you're looking for Mark. Select that, then use the mouse to draw a box in the window of everything you want to select and then hit Enter, and that will copy everything to the clipboard. That works with DOS windows run in Windows, at least in versions before XP, should work in XP too, I'm not using Windows right now so I can't check it.

[nik0tine]

old games are fun. unfortunately i cant help you. sorry.

[Rainecloud]

Unfortunately, the game won't run in a windowed mode. It just crashes.

It's just too old, methinks.

[Endless]

What game is it?

[Rainecloud]

It's a game called "Lost Eden". It originally ran on my old machine which used Windows 3.1, and I absolutely loved it. It's a point and click adventure game that almost nobody has heard of.

I'm still trying to figure out how to take screenshots, but I can't seem to be able to do it. I've tried numerous programs, but nothing's working. I've almost given up hope. *shrug*

[crono_logical]

Virtual PC or VMWare :p I've screenshotted Monkey Island with that :p