Originally posted by: ZL1
print screen in dos ?
Actually, it was (Shift)+PrintScreen, the way I recall, and you just got straight TEXT, no graphics. As others are pointing out, we loaded various TSR's to use when we finally got screen graphics worth looking at!
When the first IBM-PC came along, you could choose between readable straight text ("MDA"), green text on a black screen, or 4 Colors and illegible white text on a black screen, in a 350 by 200 resolution matrix ("CGA"). Even if you had a CGA adapter, the builtin PrintScreen only printed text from the screen. Graphics was either ignored, or turned into gibberish.
And it's been too long now for most of us to recall what favorite Print Screen Utility we used!
