February 7, 1996

Charles T. Turley, Ph.D.
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About: A2SNIP.SDK (Shrinkit P8 - DOS 3.3  5.25  - disk archive) 
Status: Mailware

I thought I'd be able to have this uploaded and available before midnight -
yesterday!  But, no such luck.  So, 15 hours overdue - here it is.   You'll have
to use Shrinkit P8 v3.4 to unpack the DOS 3.3 disk archive.  It will give the
name ABC and unpack it as a 5.25 disk.

Well everybody on the Apple II Usenet groups have been expressing a desire for
just such a program, for a long time!  So, now you've got one. And, I certainly
hope you have the common courtesy to send an email 'Thank You' to the author, for
his efforts in making it available.

This is a screen capture and save program for use with HR and DHR Apple II
graphics.  AUX.SRC, etc., included!  It was done by a friend of mine Laz  Long
and he ask me to make it available.  So, finally - here it is!
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Documentation

Play your game, or whatever, get your graphic on screen that you want to snip.
when you're ready, hold down oa-ctrl-reset.  While you're holding it, stick the
a2snipper disk into s6,d1.  Let go, it'll reboot into the snipper program.

press "p" to toggle pages (page 1 and page 2) press "d" to toggle double hi-res
on and off press "s" to save the image you see on screen press esc to exit to
basic

The program won't run under ProDOS unless you change the b1 and b2 variables to
point to the last bload start address for ProDOS (they now point to the DOS
locations) and still, when you boot ProDOS, it wipes out your graphics!

Now, I know that you get schmutz across both screens, this is due to the ROMs
trashing certain memory locations in order to make a warm restart successful.
Perhaps in a future version I'll copy the bits from the other page to fill in the
gaps, cuz in many cases it is nearly the same image on both pages.

The program "tester" was used to debug the MOVEAUX machine language program.  it
asks for a transfer mode, then a source and destination page.

xfer modes: 0: main to main 1: main to aux 2: aux to main 3: aux to aux

Then you can choose pages 1 2 or 3.  page 3 is used in a2snipper as a scratch
buffer, it lives above page 2 in both main and aux ram.

Feel free to write me with any questions, comments, curiosities.

This program is mailware: if you use it, i'd like you to email me and tell me
what you think.

You can also just use the moveaux routines for your fun too. Mail me if you do.

lazarus.long@adobe.com