Gotcha!
Gotcha! is a small (well not so small anymore ;-) utility for OS/2 which allows to easily capture windows, window interiors, parts of the screen or the whole desktop and save them to disk or clipboard as a picture (in several file formats if OS/2 Multimedia is installed; otherwise only BMP format).
It has options for serial capture (automatically taking a capture every n seconds) and batch mode (take a capture, save and exit).
I wrote Gotcha! mainly because all other screen capture programs for OS/2 that I found were either really old and/or part of some big other program and/or buggy and/or not free.
Current version
Current version is 1.78 (released December 2007)
This version features only one very minor update:
- The delay for the serial capture can/must now be set in seconds/20
instead of seconds, to allow more captures per second (request from a
user). Unfortunatly the timer which is used is not very accurate, so
you have to test yourself to find good settings for your needs.
For old installations the value of the delay will automatically be adjusted upon first start of the new version of the program.
Download
| Version / Download | Released | GPG signature for archive | MD5 sum for archive | SHA256 sum for archive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gotcha! 1.78 + Source (506 KB) | December 2007 | gotch178.zip.asc | 0cdd3c12a069f2e48af51e4b24d9e02e |
3dcaac60bfa60e939e3429174d63d8c98c6d5fdddec0387010805298ef694c29 |
| Gotcha! 1.77 + Source (506 KB) | July 2007 | gotch177.zip.asc | 32fe9f81df9ed2c7c42040b2f5389fae |
80aafb5e0750ea26bd0b96d20451a57b4469df93f8b339d51d149d851985a564 |
| Gotcha! 1.76 + Source (505 KB) | May 2007 | gotch176.zip.asc | 54bc1456b1e07ef066d38f84710a5b0c |
ff3bfe1f650b0f95e651aa4e4d7e6c7de60c60e4d77737726b72661dc0f02830 |
| Gotcha! 1.75 + Source (497 KB) | January 2003 | gotch175.zip.asc | 5ab876c02edbe78e4c03b05ee2e33608 |
df730ade31e9f822f90f7ddf91a3165b0e22f7d5ffd6ae96f33083366a216e35 |
| Gotcha! 1.73 + Source (487 KB) | May 2002 | gotch173.zip.asc | 45ec5fd8054d963629ebdfcbdaba7b43 |
46e19dd6742dbc5ae4cd7ed5f3637441b3c671a0cc4879f4f83d89260aacf8de |
| Gotcha! 1.65pl1 (43 KB) Fixed gotcha.exe replacement; you also need gotch165.zip! |
April 2000 | got165p1.zip.asc | c556931e92ef9160551f2989aa3040d8 |
f1c405e89ba9e9c772442ff372daa9b00b2624cc53e99a67064788e143c04de6 |
| Gotcha! 1.65 (216 KB) | August 1999 | gotch165.zip.asc | 882cacc1028bf09709f17ee6edee4ec8 |
ec36a3072e920e8445ee129c03736bda934bdc2cc9963021b11bf45204ffd071 |
| Gotcha! 1.45 (111 KB) | January 1999 | gotch145.zip.asc | 998834b2dac50046a0a7129b2a8280bb |
9169bcc24d3d6df744c95ce960ac1adc733365ccfcf3db74dddb3c0f6812aabd |
Please note that most of the the e-mail adresses and URLs given are no longer correct. Please read the security notes.
Writing JPEGs
Gotcha! or to be more precise, the MMIO-DLL used to write JPEGs (which in turn is used by Gotcha!) seems to be buggy - neither I nor everyone else I heard of has been able to create valid JPEGs with it. If you need to create JPEG screenshots, there once was the option of using a JPEGIO.DLL from the cw-mmclasses from Chris Wohlgemuth's website, inside of which there was a new JPEGIO.DLL that I have been told works fine. 2025-04-15: If this is still available somewhere I don't know, the old URL did no longer work...
Status
Starting with v1.73 Gotcha! is free software under the GPL.
Screenshots
From the 1.45 release but newer ones don't look really different.
Next release
There will not be a next release, at least not from me. The source code for the program is available, so everybody has the opportunity to add features or remove bugs themselves.
Support
You can e-Mail me (see my OpenPGP key page for adress) but I'm not really able to provide support any more.