Re: screen.print.nda?

[gareth@vcn.bc.ca (Gareth Jones)]

Scott Weierich (scottw@onyx.southwind.net) wrote:

: Tony Ward (tward@thymaster.interaccess.com) wrote:
: : Joe Kohn (joko@crl.com) wrote:
: : : Dale released STS at the 1987 AppleFest in San Francisco, and even
: : : graciously donated the source code to the public domain.

: : : Tony Ward (A2.Tony - the Genie A2 Librarian) used that source code to
: : : update it, and he released his update maybe a year ago.

: : It really wasn't much of an update, but I did add a variable timer so 
: : you're not stuck with 10 seconds all the time. It still has a bug (which 
: : I didn't see at the time) that causes it to lose track of the save path 
: : occasionally. Other than that, it works fine. It only saves the SHR 
: : screen though.

: : I have a complete rewrite sitting on my hard drive that lets you choose 
: : the save format (uncompressed, Apple Preferred and clipboard) as well as 
: : the save name and save path, plus a =real= variable timer (I think my 
: : original update did it in 5 second increments.) It's not quite finished 
: : because at one time I wanted to add ProDOS 8 support and the ability to 
: : save other screens (not just SHR) but I never got around to it. If there 
: : is enough interest, I might polish up what I've got and release it.

: Are you kidding Tony?! I would love it is you found the time to finish 
: it! Keep me posted please.

: Scott
: --

You BET there's interest. The original STS, though, caused problems with 
programs like spectrum because of the constant interrupts. If you couls 
allow it to be turned off and on "on the fly" I'd definitely replace the 
screen saver CDA I'm using (typed in from NIBBLE). Please support the 
saving of 40- and 80-column text screens, too. The SuperConvert manual 
describes a type of text screen dump (from TDM) that it supports.

-Gareth