Quick .SCR viewer
Quick .SCR viewer
Is there a piece of software (not command prompt) out there that can be used to quickly view a large set of .SCR files in a folder?
I currently use an emulator, but it's slow as you have to keep clicking 'File/Open'. It would be nice to be able to scroll through them just by pressing the right/left cursor key.
I currently use an emulator, but it's slow as you have to keep clicking 'File/Open'. It would be nice to be able to scroll through them just by pressing the right/left cursor key.
Re: Quick .SCR viewer
IrfanView seems to be able to view them. If you want to be able to scroll through them you need to go into Settings->Extensions and add SCR| to the end of the list where it says "Load custom file types".
EDIT: You can also go into View->Display Options and disable "Use Resample" if you want nearest neighbour filtering rather than blurry pixels.
EDIT EDIT: I did some more mucking about, and if you find it annoying how .scr files always try to open as screensavers instead of as an image, then open a command prompt as admin and run this:
It might give you a warning the first time you try to open one but otherwise it seems to work fine.
EDIT: You can also go into View->Display Options and disable "Use Resample" if you want nearest neighbour filtering rather than blurry pixels.
EDIT EDIT: I did some more mucking about, and if you find it annoying how .scr files always try to open as screensavers instead of as an image, then open a command prompt as admin and run this:
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ftype zxscreen="C:\Program Files (x86)\IrfanView\i_view32.exe" "%1"
assoc .scr=zxscreen
- Einar Saukas
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Re: Quick .SCR viewer
take a look at:
http://g0blinish.ucoz.ru/index/software ... ve/0-19#ZX
I think file assotiation with ".scr" is a big mess because ext interfere with Windows screensavers.
http://g0blinish.ucoz.ru/index/software ... ve/0-19#ZX
I think file assotiation with ".scr" is a big mess because ext interfere with Windows screensavers.
Re: Quick .SCR viewer
That's true. Email servers often block emails with .scr as attachments as they treat them as screensavers and screensavers can be potentially dangerous - contain viruses and so on.I think file assotiation with ".scr" is a big mess because ext interfere with Windows screensavers.
But this confusion doesn't come from Spectrum people. I believe .scr files already existed in early 90s when everybody used Dos and screensavers appeared with Windows 95 only. So that's Microsoft guys who stole .scr extension from us!
- lister_of_smeg
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Re: Quick .SCR viewer
Another option is Total Commander with the inSCR plugin.
Re: Quick .SCR viewer
Total Commander is shareware. Older version of Lister support viewer plugins.
Re: Quick .SCR viewer
Thanks for the suggestions all. I checked them out and SpecSCRView had the best combination of ease of use and doing exactly what I was after.
[mention]g0blinish[/mention] - that link you provided is a goldmine! This is slightly offtopic, but in case it interests you (or any other active devs) I'd like to reiterate how cool it would be to have a utility that generates a SCR of Manic Miner style FLASH text, based on a string inputted by the user. There used to be something online that served this function, called the Minertron, but it no longer exists.
Just to plant the thought
[mention]g0blinish[/mention] - that link you provided is a goldmine! This is slightly offtopic, but in case it interests you (or any other active devs) I'd like to reiterate how cool it would be to have a utility that generates a SCR of Manic Miner style FLASH text, based on a string inputted by the user. There used to be something online that served this function, called the Minertron, but it no longer exists.
Just to plant the thought
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Re: Quick .SCR viewer
Run ZX-Explorer and click on icon "show thumbnails".
Re: Quick .SCR viewer
Here's a simple online SCR viewer: https://www.dj50.ro/
Re: Quick .SCR viewer
Recoil makes, among other things, thumbnails in a system/destop enviroment
http://recoil.sourceforge.net
http://recoil.sourceforge.net
Re: Quick .SCR viewer
For Mac users, the venerable Graphic Converter supports SCR files and has a nice thumbnail browser.