Screen capture in DOS

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Is it possible to capture screen in MS-DOS and save the screen as a JPEG image?

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You could use a virtual machine (for example VMWare Player or VirtualBox) and run DOS within that. Then (as it is running in a window), you could create a screenshot for that window.

Other than that: I can remember that there used to be TSR ("terminate but stay resident") programs for DOS that stored the content of the screen (ASCII characters) as text files when pressing a key, but of course they could not store any colors.

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