UniFlash screen capture

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Hi.

There are following methods to capture or grab the sreen output from UniFlash:

lossy
-VGA card with video-output & second computer with tv card
-VGA card & second computer with framegrabber card using VGA-input.

lossless
-VGA card & second computer with framegrabber card using DVI input
-"grafx430" (google.com)
Well, I do not have a frame grabber card with dvi input and I only have grafx430 demo, so I look for further tools.

Does anybody know further tools to capture colored (and animated (e.g. blinking text parts)) text-screens?

Exist grabbing tools which are able to produce
"screenshoots" in "ansi code format"?
Google: Ansi codes

Well, after short search I found one further tool which is able to dump screen to ansi file, pcx file or text file - PCXDUMP .

However I does not work if UniFlash is running.
It only works if Uniflash does not running anymore.
(I would like to make screenshoots with the green quickinfo.)
How to solve that problem?

Furthermore on your page you should
1.)list all screendump utilities which are able to dump uniflash's output.
2.)"open" a gallery, so users all over the world can post you the screenshots.

Here are some small pictures:


WinRar is able to display ANSI code.


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        ←[0;1;33;40mUniFlash ←[0;1;32;40mv1.37←[0;1;36;40m (c) 2004 Rainbow Software (http://www.uniflash.org)←[0;37;40m      ←[1A
        ←[0;1;35;40mOriginal version by Pascal van Leeuwen & Galkowski Adam←[0;37;40m                 ←[1A
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←[0;1;37;40m (DA45,FFFF)←[0;1;33;40m   Flash ROM chip: ←[0;1;37;40mWinbond W29C020(C)/022/5V←[0;1;33;40m                        ←[1A
←[0;37;40m ←[0;1;33;40m                Organisation: ←[0;1;37;40m2048 pages of 128 bytes (256K)←[0;1;33;40m                   ←[1A
←[0;37;40m ←[0;1;33;40m                 PCI chipset: ←[0;1;37;40mIntel AGPSet 440BX/ZX←[0;37;40m                            ←[1A
 ←[0;1;33;40m           Last write status: ←[0;1;37;40mnot available←[0;37;40m                                    ←[1A
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                      ←[0;1;37;41m Write backup BIOS image to file ←[0;37;40m                         ←[1A
                    ←[0;1;37;40m Flash BIOS image INCLUDING bootblock ←[0;37;40m                      ←[1A
                     Flash backup BIOS image to Flash ROM                       ←[1A
                             ←[0;1;37;40m Redetect Flash ROM ←[0;37;40m                               ←[1A
                               ←[0;1;37;40m CMOS submenu » ←[0;37;40m                                 ←[1A
                             ←[0;1;37;40m ADVANCED submenu » ←[0;37;40m                               ←[1A
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                                    ←[0;1;37;40m Quit ←[0;37;40m                                      ←[1A
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←[0;30;40mROM base: FFFC0000, memory dump at FFFC0000-->(1B256C2D)←[0;37;40m                        ←[1A
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In conclusion:
Currently following tools are (nearly ->reason is mentioned above) able to capture colored text output by Uniflash:

1.)grafx430
2.)PCXDUMP

[Rainbow]

No screenshot creating will be implemented in UniFlash. I don't like programs that can do a lot of things but none of them properly. There are external programs for that - as you've found, PCXDUMP can be used.
Screen captures do not work when flashing is in progress because interrupts are disabled by FlashProgram procedure before calling CurCInfo.Progr(Pos, Data). This is required because some chips need very precise timing and any interrupt will break it.

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Asm CLI End;
CurCInfo.Progr( Pos, Data );
Asm STI End;

Master of Uniflash - Rainbow wrote:

No screenshot creating will be implemented in UniFlash. I don't like programs that can do a lot of things but none of them properly. There are external programs for that - as you've found, PCXDUMP can be used.

Master of Uniflash - Rainbow wrote:

Screen captures do not work when flashing is in progress because interrupts are disabled by FlashProgram procedure before calling CurCInfo.Progr(Pos, Data). This is required because some chips need very precise timing and any interrupt will break it.

Well, I do not mean while flashing... I just mean while uniflash is running.

It seems to be only the "necessary" keys are allowed/will be accepted by UniFlash. This results that sreengrabber do not work.
Locking keys is only usefull while flashing, but it is not usefull while jut running Uniflash.
So, please, please, please, please make it possible to use each key/key shortcut in uniflash to enable picture dumps (again).

Well, what is about a special "switch" (e.g.: Uniflash /k) to force to enable key short cuts?

[Rainbow]

Oh, keys. Starting with v1.23, UniFlash uses its own keyboard handler. This is necessary when running under Award BootBlock BIOS because its keyboard support is very limited. There might be an option to disable this (in future) as it might cause problems sometimes.

Screen captures do not plan if aflame is in advance because interrupts are disabled by FlashProgram action afore calling CurCInfo.