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by **bantzs7..** » Mon, 05 Dec 1994 15:40:48

I don't know if anyone else has discovered this and I haven't seen it in the
manual anywhere, but if you press the '*' key anywhere in the game it will
create a screen dump to a .pcx file. It can make for some very neat SVGA
wallpaper for windows. :)

Steve

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by **NYTSH..** » Tue, 06 Dec 1994 06:39:24

Quoting bantzs7655 from a message in rec.autos.simulators
>if you press the '*' key anywhere in the
>game it will create a screen dump to a .pcx file.
Steve:
Sounds great, but I tried it and I can't find any file. Does it write
to the NASCAR directory?

| )/-\(_)|__ _________________________________ Paul Hamilton

by **bantzs7..** » Tue, 06 Dec 1994 09:03:34

> Quoting bantzs7655 from a message in rec.autos.simulators
> >if you press the '*' key anywhere in the
> >game it will create a screen dump to a .pcx file.
> Steve:
> Sounds great, but I tried it and I can't find any file. Does it write
> to the NASCAR directory?

> | )/-\(_)|__ _________________________________ Paul Hamilton

Well I discovered this quite by accident. I had set my brake to the * key and
I found that everytime I quit the game there would be many .pcx files in the
nascar directory. I erased them at first thinking it was a weird bug or
something. Then one day I decided to look at the files to see if they were
really screen shots and they were. I wondered why the frame rate slowed down
every time I braked and it was because the game was writing the screens tp pcx
files when I braked. I changed my braking key to another location and the *
key still works for the screen dump whenever I want it to. I made some very
neat SVGA wallpaper for windows by doing this. :)

Steve

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by **Chris Gouch** » Wed, 07 Dec 1994 23:46:48

: I don't know if anyone else has discovered this and I haven't seen it in the
: manual anywhere, but if you press the '*' key anywhere in the game it will
: create a screen dump to a .pcx file. It can make for some very neat SVGA
: wallpaper for windows. :)

: Steve

--- Also, the "Print Screen" key works equally well for this ;-) Wasn't
sure if this all was supposed to be known, so I didn't mention it before.
However, the cats' now out of the bag ;-)

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