What is the best program to capture images from dos games?
Snagit doesnt seem to like DOS games, and just shows a white screen when capturing.
More specifically I'm capturing background images out of Police Quest 3.
Does anybody know a solution?
The best way is to use SCI studio
http://www.bripro.com/scistudio/index.php
this opens up the game in a format similar to AGS and you just go into the "pics" tab in the editor and print screen, paste into a paint program, crop it, save it as bmp or pcx and bingo, you can get all the backgrounds this way, even all the animations etc, It's basically an editor for Sierra's SCI games (reverse engineered by Brian Provinciano)
Edit: Actually I'm not sure if this will work for Police Quest 3, until the new version of SCI studio is released. I first thought you said Space Quest 3 but I re-read.
But I'm sure if you can run it through windows you can just press print screen.
Edit 2: Yes, you currently CAN'T open it with SCI studio but I just loaded it straight from windows double clicking on the file Scidhuv.exe then just pressed print screen and this is what I got:
(http://www.members.optushome.com.au/timosity/pics/pq3.gif)
I'm using Win98se, maybe it doesn't work in more modern versions of windows? I'm not sure.
~Tim
If Timosity's tips don't help, google for the DOS version of an old program called Screen Thief - it should be able to handle dos programs and games.
It's all good, I found a program called PCXDUMP for Dos that does it, and I was able to get SCI0 Background / View Dumper on www.agisci.cjb.net, so I am able to do it now.
Thanks for your help :)