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
Gotcha! 1.78 + Source (506 KB)	December 2007	gotch178.zip.asc	`0cdd3c12a069f2e48af51e4b24d9e02e`
Gotcha! 1.77 + Source (506 KB)	July 2007	gotch177.zip.asc	`32fe9f81df9ed2c7c42040b2f5389fae`
Gotcha! 1.76 + Source (505 KB)	May 2007	gotch176.zip.asc	`54bc1456b1e07ef066d38f84710a5b0c`
Gotcha! 1.75 + Source (497 KB)	January 2003	gotch175.zip.asc	`5ab876c02edbe78e4c03b05ee2e33608`
Gotcha! 1.73 + Source (487 KB)	May 2002	gotch173.zip.asc	`45ec5fd8054d963629ebdfcbdaba7b43`
Gotcha! 1.65pl1 (43 KB) Fixed gotcha.exe replacement; you also need gotch165.zip!	April 2000	got165p1.zip.asc	`c556931e92ef9160551f2989aa3040d8`
Gotcha! 1.65 (216 KB)	August 1999	gotch165.zip.asc	`882cacc1028bf09709f17ee6edee4ec8`
Gotcha! 1.45 (111 KB)	January 1999	gotch145.zip.asc	`998834b2dac50046a0a7129b2a8280bb`

Gotcha! is also available on Hobbes (at least the most recent release).

Please note that most of the the e-mail adresses and URLs given in the older versions 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, take a look at Chris Wohlgemuth's website and look for the cw-mmclasses. Inside there is a new JPEGIO.DLL that I have been told works fine.

Status

Starting with v1.73 Gotcha! is free software under the GPL.

It still would be nice if you decided to write me a short mail (<ththc2226.de>) or postcard or something telling me if you like the program.

Screenshots

From the 1.45 release but newer ones don't look really different.

Next release

Yes, I did release new versions, but that was as much to my surprise as to anyone else's and they included only very minor changes/fixes - don't expect anything here...

Support

You can e-Mail me at <ththc2226.de> but I'm not really able to provide support any more.

Last modified: December 14 2012 10:51:38 by Thorsten Thielen
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