NASCAR screen dump

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 -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Steve Bantz University of Northern Iowa -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= #56 Kenwood Monte Carlo Heartbeat Racing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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

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> 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 -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Steve Bantz University of Northern Iowa -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= #56 Kenwood Monte Carlo Heartbeat Racing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

: 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 ;-) -- Christopher Goucher Atlantic Geoscience Centre work: (902) 426-4754 Dartmouth, Nova Scotia home: (902) 865-9270 CANADA