Does anyone know of a good freeware animated gif capture program other than CalcCapture to do screenshots like the one attached in this post: http://ourl.ca/6973/116003 ?

CalcCapture produces questionable quality screenshots, sometimes, when using colors, and with large ones, gif capture tends to be slow, even on high-end computers, because it was primarly set to capture from calc emulators.

Otherwise, would there be any freeware AVI to GIF converter somewhere? A while ago, {AP} recommended me Camstasia, but the version with gif conversion was not free...

I searched Google for a few hours for one, but I always ended up downloading programs claiming to be freeware, but finally were trial versions, and I do not download warez anymore.

Thanks in advance

Ok I'll give those a try later. Thanks for sharing. My only concern is the compression quality, though, since I assume I actually have to upload an AVI file to the site. Uploading a 10 MB file takes one minute on my connection and a 10 MB file means it will have terrible compression. Now imagine an uncompressed AVI file

I use CamStudio, which is an open source screen capture software.  However, it does not convert to gifs, just video.

i use it-its FREE!!!
don't know why anyone uses something else such as camstasia. MONEY!!!
if i rally want animated gifs then calccapture works well

I don't like Camstudio because none of the codec used by it is supported by VirtualDub

However it does the job when I do not need to polish my videos and decide to just throw them in Windows Movie Maker. I get a good framerate too for most stuff.

You gave your own answer for an AVI to GIF converter. 
File -> Export -> Animated GIF

wow id better download the new version too