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3D Coding tutorial by Ica of Hubris
/code/3d/docs/3dica221.zip
| 30 Jun 1998 (catalog date)
422,704 bytes
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| Rating:  
| This tutorial is very easy to understand and describes everything you need to know like the mathematical basics, the different kind of polyfillers, shading methods, camera movement, sorting and backface culling and much much more. A must-have for every 3d coder! Text
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Zed 3D by Zed
/code/3d/docs/zed3d060.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
357,811 bytes
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| Rating:
| A comprehensive doc on many aspects of 3d math and programming - Designed for those comfortable with math. It spells out the math concepts needed and shows their application, but by no means spoon feeds the information to you.
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Zed 3D by Zed
/code/3d/docs/zed3d095.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
697,450 bytes
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| Rating:
| Zed 3d - a document explaining the maths you'll need for 3d. Word and postscript formats of the same file. Zed has an attention to detail and a great way to explain all the math. I highly recommend this to anyone starting to make a 3d engine who doesn't know where to start (start with the math, not the polygon fillers, believe me! the fillers are trivial in comparison). See the bibliography for where to go next.
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F. mod docs by Firelight
/code/audio/docs/fmoddoc.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
83,795 bytes
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| Rating:
| Firelight's mod format description - The perfect text file for someone who is writing a mod player especially first timers. Assumes knowledge of programming and doesn't cover details of sound card specific issues, like setting up a DMA transfer or initializing the sound card.
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IW SDK
/code/audio/docs/iw_sdk20.zip
| 10 Jul 1997 (catalog date)
2,796,518 bytes
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| Rating:
| The SDK for the IW chip. The docs are Adobe Acrobat files and are probably meant for printing out. I didn't try yet, but the "univerval translator" at CMU should be able to convert the files to a text format, which would be infinitely more useful. This is one of those everything you needed to know and more type docs.
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StarPlayer by Jedi of Oxygen
/code/audio/players/sp-code.zip
| 25 Aug 1997 (catalog date)
125,394 bytes
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| Rating:
| A mod/s3m player with source. THIS is the player you want to pick up if you're doing a 100% asm intro with Tran's pmode v2.xx and need SB support. It's easily tweakable to play your tune from memory, though the code given loads from disk. If you don't need SB support, also check out Robban's GUSPlay.
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Data (de)compressing Library by Markus Oberhumer
/code/compress/lzo100.zip
| 17 Jan 1999 (catalog date)
375,931 bytes
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| Rating:
| Favours speed over compression ratio which makes it very suitable for realtime (de)compression. Supports a lot of different operating systems and even the Atari ST TOS.
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Boardz source by Vulture
/code/demosrc/bbsintro/vga-vul1.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
11,913 bytes
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| Rating:
| Source for a BBS loader with a star field and scrollie - I never thought I'd give this high a rating for source to a BBS loader, but I figure there's got to be some way for people to know what to look for. The source is beautiful and there are more comments than there are lines of source! *Perfect* for the beginner, though not a tutorial.
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BB Demo Source by Jan Hubicka
/code/demosrc/demos/bbsrc.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
1,575,247 bytes
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| Rating:
| Text Mode/ASCII demo for DOS and UNIX. Requires gcc to compile unless you really want to mess with the makefiles. Also requires /code/utils/graphics/aa-lib10.zip. Nicely done.
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Fake demo source by Pelusa
/code/demosrc/demos/fakedemo.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
335,424 bytes
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| Rating:
| Sources for a demo with a sinus waver, wormhole, rotating landscape, fire, scrollie, shadebobs, lens, mandelbrot set zoomer - Comments for proceedures, many parts, lots to look over. Clean code too. (old cheesy necros music. :)
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Timeless source by Tran
/code/demosrc/demos/timesrc.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
356,568 bytes
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| Rating:
| Source for Tran's timeless demos - Curiously better than Tran's other source releases. If you intend to figure out how it works, I suggest you start at line 127 of v.asm. Few comments, but excellent source.
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Voxel by 6502 of Fatal Rage
/code/effects/voxel/newvox.zip
| 26 Jun 1997 (catalog date)
3,227 bytes
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| Rating:
| Beautiful hightfield rendering. If there's anyone with half a clue who can't understand this, I'd like to know. The effect itself is beautiful, fast, and the code is gratuitously commented. My only quip is having (gipped) allocation of some 180k that just eats up base memory. Has no .exe, but compiles with watcom with no problems.
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Heart Quake's water source by ARM of Iguana
/code/effects/water/hq_water.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
370,188 bytes
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| Rating:
| The authoratative source on the water effect - Includes a description of the physics behind the effect and the simplifications done to make the routine run quickly.
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Animation Construction Kit 3D (source) by Lary Myers
/code/effects/worlds/acksrc.zip
| 25 Aug 1997 (catalog date)
146,731 bytes
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| Rating:
| A Wolfenstein-like 3d world engine by Lary Myers, including all sources and a good explanation of how it works. To make it run you also have to download ackkit.zip which contains all the data.
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Virtual Memory Management by Flux
/code/hardware/memory/fxvmm210.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
112,232 bytes
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| Rating:
| A virtual memory management interface for BC - Once again, I didn't test this. This system is much more complete than the above and certainly much more useful. From the code, I'd say I'd like to work with this guy. :)
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Eclipse operating System v3.05
/code/hardware/pmode/e_os305.zip
| 30 Jun 1998 (catalog date)
1,442,821 bytes
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| Rating:
| A combination of a dos extender and a demo library containing a lot of useful functions. It's very useful for intros because the tiny version is very small (including a sb and gus modplayer). C, Assembler
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Multipage VGA Library by Lin Ke-Fong
/code/library/mpvga10.zip
| 01 Dec 1997 (catalog date)
84,061 bytes
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| Rating:
| VGA library by Lin Ke-Fong. Very good tweaked vga library. It automaticaly detects the vga card to offer as much functionality as possible instead of using the standard vga settings only like most libraries do.
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3DS converter by MRI of Doomsday
/code/utils/3d/3dsco20.zip
| 25 Aug 1997 (catalog date)
14,233 bytes
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| Rating:
| Reads a 3ds file and outputs an easier to read format. Good utility with full source for reading .3DS files. It's easily tweakable (with a #define) to read from a file or memory and not that difficult to tweak for your own 3d structures. It's also done well enough that adding support for more features of the .3ds format should not be that difficult from a coding standpoint. Specs are admittedly hard to find.
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GEMA by ? of Sector One
/code/utils/compiler/gema16.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
118,143 bytes
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| Rating:
| An assembler for those used to 68k assemblers - Avids believe that this assembler is more precise and makes more sense. I'll give them the former any day. It certainly does have many advantages over TASM and MASM with the exception of wide support. :(
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GEMA by ? of Sector One
/code/utils/compiler/gema26aa.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
148,691 bytes
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| Rating:
| An assembler for those used to 68k assemblers - Avids believe that this assembler is more precise and makes more sense. I'll give them the former any day. It certainly does have many advantages over TASM and MASM with the exception of wide support. :(
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Netwide Assembler by Simon Tatham, Julian Hall
/code/utils/compiler/nasm094.zip
| 02 Jul 1997 (catalog date)
320,576 bytes
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| Rating:
| A freeware assembler with good support. People have been switching from TASM to this assembler, especially linux and 68K coders. It is still being supported by the makers so it understands newer op codes, like mmx instructions, so you don't need to get intel's 'macros' for new opcodes.
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ASCII ART Lib by Jan Hubicka
/code/utils/graphics/aalib10.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
133,184 bytes
| Download FTP scene.org
| Rating:
| Ascii Art Renderer. Do not kill yourself trying to understand the code (no comments at all, and fairly complex code). Bonus points for the concept. This is FUNKY and fun to play with. (TMDC anyone? might be useful to figure out how to go from a graphical image to ASCII)
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