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Capturing video of textmode/console program?

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First post, by Christian Knudsen

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Hello!

I've downloaded DOSBox to test it with a DOS game I'm programming. The game is a textmode/console game programmed in Pascal (you can read more about it here: www.asciisector.net). I'd like to make some gameplay videos using DOSBox, but I can't seem to capture video. I can capture single .png screenshots using CTRL+F5, but when I press CTRL+ALT+F5 nothing happens -- there's not even a message in the console window, as there is when capturing screenshots. Is this simply because I can't capture textmode games/apps with DOSBox? I'm running DOSBox on a Toshiba Intel Pentium M 1,5GHz 496 MB RAM Windows XP laptop.

Reply 2 of 5, by Christian Knudsen

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DosFreak wrote:

Are you running under a non-admin account?

No, I'm logged on as the administrator. (It's my girlfriend's laptop -- I'm not used to XP myself.)

Reply 3 of 5, by Christian Knudsen

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I just tried running it on my old AMD K6 computer running Win98 and I had no problems capturing video of my textmode/console program. Of course the game was way too slow, but my test seems to indicate that the problem lies with WinXP...

Reply 4 of 5, by Qbix

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check for programs that might be stealing that key combination
or use the mapper to map it to a differerent key (ctrl-f1 brings up the mapper)

Water flows down the stream
How to ask questions the smart way!

Reply 5 of 5, by Christian Knudsen

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Qbix wrote:

check for programs that might be stealing that key combination
or use the mapper to map it to a differerent key (ctrl-f1 brings up the mapper)

That did it! It works! Thanks!

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