Capture
 Capture Screenshots | |
| Technical Info | |
|---|---|
| ROM | 8 kbyte |
| RAM | 8 kbyte |
| Hardware features | 1 Button Freeze |
| Manual | PDF: 11 pages - includes all necessary info PNG: 1 page - v1.1 Upgrade Note |
| CRT ID | 34 |
| Programming | |
| Control Registers | $FFF7 - enables Cart |
| $FFF8 - disables Cart | |
| Below text | |
Capture was introduced to the american market in August 1985 with an update to Capture II between mid 1987 and December 1987. Capture was produced by Jason Ranheim Company and widely distributed as Capture Archival Cartridge System due to its extra support for creating ready to eprom program output for the promenade C1 eprom burner. The hardware base for the cartridge never changed and the 1.0 software was upgradable to 1.1 and 2.0 (or II) by replacing the eprom (offered by Jason Ranheim Company as well).
Capture came with 8kb of ROM as well as 8kb of RAM and was second on the market of commercial freezing cartridges. Its software is simple but well done and due to its limited space uses up the eprom pretty well. What people will usually regard as lack of features makes Capture somewhat special since it should be extremely hard to detect by normal software.
Memory dumps created by Capture are really what the name says - memory dumps with information on registers and program counter added. The description of the resulting file contents is very well documented on the manual and easily allows later modification on the frozen program. Apart from this Capture does really nothing but fill the memory and dump it in restartable form to disk, tape or "cartrige".
 Run Issue 48, 12/1987 |
todo: add pics, roms, etc.
Binaries
blablup.zip contains just the c64 binaries:
- Capture 1.1 decoded .bin and converted .crt
- Capture II decoded .bin and converted .crt
blablup.zip contains:
- Capture 1.1 raw binary, decoded .bin and converted .crt
- Capture II raw binary, decoded .bin and converted .crt
- Capture Manual Scan (two PDF files)
- Capture V1.1 Upgrade Note (one PDF file)
- Capture Cartridge Hi-Res photos
- Decoding material including the c source for the decoder and PDF files to the chips used with this hardware
Trivia
- The Warp Speed manual reads:
Acknowledgements We would like to thank the following people for helping to make Warp Speed a reality: Dave Morelli Fred Wasserman Bob and Phyllis Jacob Eric Roberts Jason Ranheim Company and all the people who wrote in to comment on version 1.0! We hope you like this new version
see last one on that list. Warp Speed eprom is similarly crippled and needed decoding as the Capture eprom.
- The Jason-Ranheim PCC-8 eprom board system is mentioned on U.S.patent 4,785,420.
- "The Jason-Ranheim company no longer sells or supports Commodore products. As such, they saw no harm in allowing their copyrighted materials be used in this way by people who still have access to the PROMENADE." quoted from Promenade Manual at zimmers.net - we hope they think the same way about Capture. Emails were not answered (yet).
- "Jason-Ranheim (still in business making PC based products) clearly indicated about a decade ago that they couldn't care less about what people do to or with their vintage Commodore related hardware and software." and "JR will not answer in any way to anyone asking anything about Commodore related equipment... " quoted from the Lemon64 forums.
