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[Alucard648]

Is there a way to fix this? ZC 2.5.2. Had to use Print Screen to make proper screenshot.

Edited by Alucard648, 28 June 2016 - 08:00 AM.

[Nicholas Steel]

Yes there is, press Print Screen. How are you normally taking screen shots?

Edited by Nicholas Steel, 11 July 2016 - 07:29 AM.

[Lüt]

I'd imagine he's using F12. That's the only way I've ever done it - I didn't know Print Screen worked.

[Anthus]

If you are in fullscreen, I'm pretty sure print screen also makes a black image. Taking screenshots with the lens on is kind of weird.

[Timelord]

I'm pretty sure that this is intentional, to prevent cheating the magic cost of the lens, using screenshots.

I added it to the reports nevertheless:

http://armageddongam...1844#post911844

I'd imagine he's using F12. That's the only way I've ever done it - I didn't know Print Screen worked.

Pressing the 'Print Screen' key, on modern OSes, captures the desktop as a bitmap to the clipboard. In the bad old days, it sent the text on your terminal to the daisywheel.

Edited by ZoriaRPG, 04 August 2016 - 05:41 AM.

[Lüt]

Pressing the 'Print Screen' key, on modern OSes, captures the desktop as a bitmap to the clipboard. In the bad old days, it sent the text on your terminal to the daisywheel.

Heh. I suppose I should be so lucky my memories of playing Frogger on a 12" green monochrome monitor at dad's work, and of my friend's dad's 8086 which he picked up for over $3,000 and sold at a garage sale for $60, are incredibly vague and distant.

 

Never dealt with a daisywheel, but spent some time with pen plotters.

 

Which suddenly reminds of running a DOS defrag on a 1.44" disk during CAD class in high school - some guy came by, looked at the blocks moving around on the screen, and asked, "...are you winning?" 

[Timelord]

Heh. I suppose I should be so lucky my memories of playing Frogger on a 12" green monochrome monitor at dad's work, and of my friend's dad's 8086 which he picked up for over $3,000 and sold at a garage sale for $60, are incredibly vague and distant.
 
Never dealt with a daisywheel, but spent some time with pen plotters.

Used to use plotters every day, for schematic output. Ours was a huge, table-sized monster, with four pens that we had to change every time we sneezed. (It put out A1 sized prints.)

I still have some of those, and some others that we processed on one of those film transfer colour thermal printers, of the actual IC dies.

 
Which suddenly reminds of running a DOS defrag on a 1.44" disk during CAD class in high school - some guy came by, looked at the blocks moving around on the screen, and asked, "...are you winning?" 

(emphasis, mine)

That is absolutely priceless.