OFF-TOPIC: PC BIOS Screen Capture Software

[Flato, Gillian]

Thanks Andy. I think looking for the MFTR docs and cribbing screenshots is probably the best way to go. I did that with VMWare ESXi which installs in a DOS/BIOS type atmosphere. I found a PowerPoint presentation on VMWare's website which had beautiful screen captures. I cribbed most of them!

Thank you,
 

Gillian Flato
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-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Andy Kass
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 1:33 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: OFF-TOPIC: PC BIOS Screen Capture Software

Sounds like Bill had the only workable answer so far (in yesterday's digest), taking the video out of the machine into another one.

I wondered if you had any sort of BIOS emulator, or even just BIOS mockup, for your specific BIOS. Of course, BIOS emulators are used for hacking, so searching for one and trusting to run one on your computer is far from simple. Maybe contact the BIOS manufacturer (or look in their docs for images you can crib).

The only other thought I had was to recreate the BIOS screen, which should just be a lot of ASCII characters of different colors, but that might be difficult if you have lots of different screens.

  Andy

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Flato, Gillian <gflato at nanometrics.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know of software that allows you to capture the screen within
> the BIOS? Currently I use a digital camera and just take pictures of the
> monitor, but of course, those graphics are distorted and look like crap.



Thanks,

  Andy
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