Program to take screenshots of copper rainbows?

[mr_a500]

Does anybody know of a screenshot/grab program that also captures/converts copper "rainbows"? I've seen screenshots of games like "Lionheart" and "Shadow of the Beast" that have also captured the background rainbow copperlist. (..and before you say "check Aminet", I already have)


My main reason for wanting this is that I've just done the most awesome configuration of microgolded (thanks Dietmar!) with copper rainbows and I'd like to take a screenshot and post it. (dark gradient behind window with darker "simulated transparency" on popup menus, darker gradient on windows, all on only 8 colour screen - unbelievable!)

[mr_a500]

Quote:
"The alternative is a framegrabber... The best "framegrabber" is WinUAE."


Hmmm..WinUAE, huh? (..said while scratching head and looking at ceiling..) Never heard of it. Does it run on an Amiga 500? ;-)

Yes, I thought it would be a tricky thing (on a real Amiga). The captured image would also have to be saved as 24bit IFF to make sure there were enough colours available. Also, probably most people would not have a use for such a program.

[mr_a500]

@alx

There's an Amiga port of UAE? How bizarre.

I don't think I want to play around with that - especially just to take a screenshot. (and most UNIX ports on the Amiga are unbelievably bad and tedious as hell)

Yes, I know that even if I managed to take the screenshot, I wouldn't be able to display it properly on my Amiga (have to display it in HAM). It was just for showing other people. Oh well, now nobody will ever see my awesome config. *sniff, sniff* :cry:

[mr_a500]

"You could go low-tech and take a picture of the screen?"

Well... I'm a little too low-tech - I don't own a digital camera (D'oh!).

"Why don't you send your config to someone else with the hardware to make a screenshot?"

It's a little complicated. There's ModePro config to set the palette, VisualPrefs config to pick colours/styles, microgolded config, rainbow to set the 2 gradients and my fancy fonts. I don't think anybody would want to install all that just so I could post a screenshot.

Well thanks anyway for your suggestions. :-)

[mr_a500]

Yes, I was just thinking of that. In the screenshot, the 2 "copper-replaced" colours just come out as the regular colours.

So, technically all somebody would need to do is run the rainbow program while viewing the IFF screenshot in the foreground (with Visage or Viewtek - blank borders) and the colours will be replaced by the 2 nifty rainbows. Then they could do that WinUAE framegrab (or whatever it is).