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First post, by dickkickem

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I finally got my hands on a Windows 95 laptop, and I want to make gameplay videos with it. I've seen people benchmark old computers and such with screen recording software, and I want to know how to do this, and what software they did it with.

How do I do so?

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Fujitsu Lifebook E330 - Working w/ Win95
Fujitsu Lifebook C352 - Nonworking 🙁
HP Pavilion A520N - Working w/ WinXP
AST Ascentia M 5260X - Working w/ WinME
IBM ThinkPad 770 - Working w/ Win2K

Reply 1 of 8, by leileilol

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Another computer and a way to capture VGA (expensive) or svideo (relatively inexpensive but worse quality and a limited support for resolutions, some laptops have svideo out)

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Reply 2 of 8, by BeginnerGuy

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It can get a bit costly if you want to do VGA recording, obviously you'll need a modern desktop for a capture card..here's the route I went:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009TB3HVA/ … ailpage_o00_s00
VGA to HDMI, another user posted a thread about using this on his 4k TV so I grabbed one... 30 USD. It works surprisingly well with 320x200 and other unusual resolutions I've tried with games or programming (mode x).

https://www.amazon.com/AVerMedia-Streaming-De … 5/dp/B007UXJ6LE
Avermedia C985.. I got mine used on ebay for 65 USD, they are quite ubiquitous on ebay these days as streamers are going after 1080P/60FPS cards. But you get the idea.

My favorite perk about it is that when I'm not recording, I can put my DOS machine on my living room TV via HDMI and play Ultima from the couch at unfathomable screen sizes 😎

Sup. I like computers. Are you a computer?

Reply 3 of 8, by Jo22

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"How do I screen record with Windows 95?"
Use a VHS camcorder. It's period-correct. 😎

(Seriously, though: Some S3 graphics cards had CVBS/S-Video out.
Since you're using a laptop, there are also VGA to CVBS/S-Video boxes.
You can then grab these signals with those cheap VHS to PC adapters from the 2000s)

Edit: Writing fixed.

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In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel

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Reply 4 of 8, by bregolin

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There used to be an old screen capture software called HyperCam- though I don't think it would be capable of capturing full screen gameplay footage, but one could try 😀

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Reply 5 of 8, by ATauenis

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SnagIt 5.0 can record AVIs too.

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Reply 8 of 8, by Deksor

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VGA to composite/svideo are quite inexpensive as well, I can record any old computer with that

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