ArthurCam is a simple screenshot utility for the Acorn Archimedes running Arthur desktop. When the camera icon in the task bar is clicked, the Arthur desktop is captured and written to a sprite file.
- Insert a disk containing the ArthurCam files before loading the Arthur desktop. Any other accessories present in the Accessory folder on this disk will also be loaded.
- After the Arthur desktop has started, double-click the Camera file in the Accessory folder.
If ArthurCam was successfully loaded, there will be a camera icon on the right side of the task bar.
When ArthurCam is first loaded, the default filename for the saved screenshot is Screen0, in the root directory of whatever is the default drive. The filename is incremented for each screenshot (e.g. Screen1, Screen2, etc.) The eleventh screenshot will be ScreenA. The counter overflows after 36 screenshots; the 37th invocation of ArthurCam will overwrite Screen0. On a floppy disk, this isn't so much a problem as it will fill long before this happens.
The filename prefix may be changed from the default "Screen" by middle- clicking the Camera icon and typing in a new prefix. Setting the prefix causes the counter to reset to 0 (even if the prefix is not changed). Quitting the prefix dialog leaves both the filename prefix and counter unchanged.
Theoretically screenshots could be saved to another directory by making the file prefix a fully-qualified path name, but I didn't test this.
The current distribution of ArthurCam can be downloaded as a RiscOS .arc file from http://www.typewritten.org/pub/ArthurCam.arc
Files included in the distribution archive:
.$.Accessory.Camera- ArthurCam Desktop Accessory (must be type &FE0!).$.Icons.Camera- ArthurCam Sprite file.$.Art030_0- Sample Arthur 0.30 screenshot.$.Art120_0- Sample Arthur 1.20 screenshot.$.readme/cam- Read Me
This software is hereby placed into the public domain with no warranties, express or implied.
ArthurCam v1.0 - 20161226 r.stricklin bear@typewritten.org