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From: doubt@elf.rice.edu (Douglas Benjamin Triggs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Screen grabbers
Keywords: Psygnosis pics are neat!
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Date: 10 Mar 91 22:59:07 GMT
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Does anyone know of any decent screen grabbers, especially ones which can
rip images out of memory (like ST/NT rippers)?  I have one that will do this,
but unfortunately, it doesn't search for the palette (making it next to
useless for 32-color pics where you don't know the exact colors).

The particular use I have for it is this:  I wanted to grab the title
screen from The Killing Game Show so I could (via a few intermediate format
conversions) use it as a background on the Suns here.  I managed to save
the bitmap of it to file (no problem there), but the palette was arbitrary
and had no resemblence to the original.  I tried fiddling with it for a
while, but couldn't get it to match (or even make it look decent).

My question is this:  Is there any utility available that will do all this
and get the palette as well?

Thanks,

doubt

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