Overview
VideoThief is a DOS screen grabber,
initially written in 1995 (oh the stone ages) to support every
mode that VGAs were able to handle those days, and later extended
to handle VESA BIOS extensions (VBE) modes.
As far as I know, it was the only grabber able
to capture every possible VGA mode, including non-standard ones
(so called X-modes, which could be set by manually programming
video board timing registers), VBE 1.2 modes, and VBE 2.0 LFB
(linear frame buffer) modes.
The key VideoThief idea was to dump
complete video board state, then reproduce it as precisely as
possible later when viewing the shot, and export to BMP from
the viewer, doing all the tricks needed.
Amazing, but I still get e-mails concerning
VideoThief from time to time, so this page is here not entirely
for nostalgical reasons!
