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 Post subject: Taking Pictures/Screenshots Ingame
PostPosted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 6:16 pm 
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Hello, fellow Larry acolytes.
I am another Leisure Suit Larry fan (that's to be expected), and I'm especially a fan of the cartoon animated Sierra games, such as LSL 7, TP, KQ7, and SP6.

I'm curious as to how you take screenshots of Love For Sail's ingame moments, because the game itself does not feature any pic taking program like other games do.

Is there a program within the game files I am not aware of, especially in other Larry games, or is there a program outside of the game that I need to download in order to pull it off?


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 Post subject: Re: Taking Pictures/Screenshots Ingame
PostPosted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 8:16 pm 
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Well, you should be playing the games in DOSBox, so you can just use the built-in screen capture in it. (CTRL+F5).


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 Post subject: Re: Taking Pictures/Screenshots Ingame
PostPosted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:21 am 
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I already have the game installed through the DOSbox installers offered to me, so I don't know if the installer has similar features to regular DOSbox. I tried what you suggested, but the screenshots don't appear in an easily identifiable format. Are the features of DOSbox come with the installer for WIndows XP, or do I have to run it on DOSbox alone?

Which format do the screenshots usually appear in, and how do you access them?


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 Post subject: Re: Taking Pictures/Screenshots Ingame
PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 8:31 pm 
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If you are talking about the installers from the Sierra Help Pages, yes it uses the official DOSBox. The images are in PNG format and should be readable with the Windows image viewer, MSPaint and almost any image viewer out there. Again, if you used the SHP installer you will find a link to the captures folder in the start menu.


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