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3d math by Lithium of VLA
/code/3d/docs/3d_math.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
11,835 bytes
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| Explanations of some 3d math concepts - I remember not getting the 3d rotations working correctly when I first started programming, but I'm not sure if that's my fault or the fault of the doc. Most of the docs are some simple linear algebra. They spell out the equations in the end for those who can't completely understand them.
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3d basics by Synergist
/code/3d/docs/3dbasics.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
2,745 bytes
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| Some basic 3d documentation - I'd never want to tell someone that this doc is a good place to start. The person writing this has no concept of structures, which severely ease the programming of complex things such as 3d systems.
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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Rotating 3d escher-knot by Oliver Nash
/code/3d/systems/gsescher.zip
| 30 Jun 1998 (catalog date)
19,895 bytes
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| The author says he appreciates a mention when you "steal" his formula, but "his" formula was already used on the amiga a long time ago. It might be useful downloading though if you're a starting 3d coder because the flatshaded 3d engine is very easy to understand. C
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Crappy Texture Map by Mandrill
/code/3d/trifill/texmap/ctm.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
6,214 bytes
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| Crappy Texture Map. At least you know what code should be doing what. The filler looks familiar (the register lay out). The texture 'swims' so I'm not sure this is a routine to emulate.
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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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| 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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DemoVT by JCAB of Iguana
/code/audio/players/demovt15.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
228,287 bytes
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| A music player - Has no source for the player and a few bugs. But it's easy to interface from *any* language with support for SB and GUS. Rename file heartq.002 from Iguana's demo HeartQuake to demovt.exe and use that instead. It's version "1.6"
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Tiny Play by pascal of Cubic Team
/code/audio/players/mxmp12.zip
| 11 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
92,697 bytes
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| Tiny Gus Play - Has source for the player, but can interface with asm and watcom. GUS only. requires that music be run through a converter and the playback is similar to FT2 when it comes to s3ms (but it will play xm's!)
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Tnt's Mod Player by ByteRaver of TNT, NO-ID
/code/audio/players/tnt-mp11.zip
| 10 Jun 1998 (catalog date)
306,622 bytes
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| | This is a .MOD, .WOW player for DOS or a W95 DOS BOX. It supports the GUS and SoundBlaster. Features are interpolative mixing routines (stereo with panning effects), 5 octaves, 1 to 32 channels, _ALL_ MOD types supported, very powerful .MOD loader, MIDAS-alike setup. full pascal and asm source is included. Info about programming mixing routines is included, too.
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Squid source by tlc, The Doctor
/code/demosrc/bbsintro/sqd1_src.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
21,591 bytes
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| Source for a BBS loader with copper bars, a scrollie, altered text characters, and an adlib player - Copious comments and tight source. They even do checks for the proper equipment, i.e. VGA and a 386. Comes with docs on programming the adlib and SB fm chips. Comments are in Portuguese.
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Amnesia Vector source by Tran of Renaissance
/code/demosrc/demos/as.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
7,047 bytes
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| The sources for the temple vector part of Amnesia - Sparce comments. Tight code, but probably only understandable by those who have written atleast a simple vector system and familiar with pmode. Certainly good code, but I question its usefulness to those who read it.
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Hell source by Tran
/code/demosrc/demos/hellsrc.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
62,331 bytes
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| Source for Tran's demo Hell - Like most of Tran's released source, it makes a good example, but is difficult for people to read unless you've already done something similarly complex.
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Stupikeffyloooopy Full Source by FAC of Delabu Alama
/code/demosrc/demos/loopysrc.zip
| 25 Apr 1998 (catalog date)
211,591 bytes
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| | Full source for the Stupikeffyloopy demo. - Coded in TMT Pascal v2.0 registered. - Can be compiled with either registered or unregistered versions - Supports Sound Blaster / No Sound - MOD Player by Cesar Vellido / CiMedia - Enjoy it.
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2d bump mapping by HELiX
/code/effects/bump/bumpsrc.zip
| 18 Mar 1997 (catalog date)
63,540 bytes
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| Simple example and explanation of how to do 2d bump mapping. Looks like it was written by a beginner (because of the code optimization, or lack there of), but is fairly nicely commented, which is a big plus!
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Fire by JARE of Iguana
/code/effects/fire/fire_win.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
10,716 bytes
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| A fire routine under windows - Crawls on my p133. :( Don't bother looking at this unless you've programmed for windows before. You're likely to have a heart attack. :) Requires WinG to run.
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small flame by Gaffer of PRoMETHEUS
/code/effects/fire/flame160.zip
| 18 Mar 1997 (catalog date)
2,964 bytes
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| Source for a small fire routine. Doesn't actually work on my computer. To answer a question proposed by the author about size optimization, inc al is bigger than inc ax because intel doesn't have an inc /r8 instruction. inc ax is of the form inc /r16 which compiles to db 40+rw, where rw = 0 for ax, 1 for cx, 2 for dx, 3 for bx, ... inc al is of the form inc r/m8 and compiles to db FE /1 where /1 = c0 for al, c4 for ah, c1 for bl..., 05 for a memory reference.... See an intel document for more details.
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Linefire by Kable
/code/effects/fire/linefire.zip
| 26 Jun 1997 (catalog date)
26,759 bytes
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| Rating:
| Mystify your fire. I half expected to hear the FM sounds from Amnesia to kick in. It's only one line with a *much* longer (and blured) tail, but still. Uses a Bresenham's line routine.
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rotating landscape by TTT
/code/effects/land/rotscape.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
129,844 bytes
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| A landscape routine similar to that at the end of unreal - Comments only on function names and has a larger executable than need be for this effect. (Lots of tables, i.e. the landscape itself)
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Tom's Plasma by Tom Dibble
/code/effects/plasma/tplas11.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
139,950 bytes
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| Decent plasma example - Has some "fractal clouds" code too. Needs a random number generator of it's own so that there isn't the huge data file of mostly random numbers that goes along with it.
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Alias by Minimalist
/code/effects/rotozoom/alias.zip
| 25 Aug 1997 (catalog date)
164,287 bytes
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| Scaling, rotating, anti-aliasing. There's a turboC, WatcomC, and Pascal version of this program all included. Admittedly, he cheats the palette on anti-aliasing (as shown by using most any non-grayscale image), the programming is good nonetheless.
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256 Byte Water by Cagdas Calik
/code/effects/water/w256.zip
| 24 May 1998 (catalog date)
786 bytes
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| | A 256 byte water effect coded in pure assembly by Cagdas Calik, moreover with 286 instructions. It's recommended that you're mouse driver is load before you run the program, otherwise it will crash. Click left mouse button to go back to dos. Have fun...
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Water by Yamaha of XYZZ
/code/effects/water/watrxyzz.zip
| 25 Aug 1997 (catalog date)
128,613 bytes
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| A water effect sample. Won't compile as is since it's missing quite a number of library files. Get hq_water if you want to understand this effect. Get this afterwards only if you can't understand asm.
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2asm Anything 2 Asm,c,pas Converter by sneaqo of aardbei
/code/fileutil/2asm.zip
| 21 Aug 1998 (catalog date)
97,877 bytes
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| | converts a binary file into a db list, or a C or Pascal array. has a lot of options, and examples for all 3 languages included. Assembler, C, Pascal
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LZO Data Compression Library v0.20 by Markus Oberhumer
/code/fileutil/lzo020.zip
| 06 Oct 1996 (catalog date)
184,964 bytes
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| Rating:
| over conscious about compression ratios and statistics and has many long files about its stats in the /doc directory, but no description about the API. You have to figure out how to use it yourself from the two short examples that come with it. Otherwise, it's fairly complete and you can decide which compression routines you'd like to link yourself (assuming you can figure out that much).
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AWE-DIP-01-ENG by Creative Labs engineers
/code/hardware/audio/adip.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
708,753 bytes
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| Examples and API for using the AWE32 - And people wonder why there's not much SB support. The information in the packet is contorted. I could go on this for days. Comments like /* main - here's where the fun begins */ are misleading. The fun actually began several hundred lines ago (starting at line 134). It's late. I'm not exactly bored, but this bit of code is frustrating. I wonder why CL even bothered. There are no technical docs of any sort and the code that is here *REEKS* of bad style. For extra frustration, I unzipped the file which had a self extracting .exe in it, which gave me 4 zips which when each extracted with the -d option finally gives me the SDK. Kneebiter - at 1:30 in the morning. Need more tea...
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Flat Real Mode Interface by Juanito
/code/hardware/memory/frmi_150.exe
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
38,210 bytes
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| An interface for flat real mode from BC - Has some docs on xms and comments explaining how the interface works itself. I didn't test to see if it works. Doesn't work in v86 mode, meaning most programs made with this will require a reboot.
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386 power by Lorenzo Micheletto
/code/hardware/pmode/386p_101.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
117,845 bytes
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| A DOS extender for pmode asm programming - Has docs for useage and some extra miscellaneous routines that could be used for game or graphics programming in pmode. Honestly, if you want to do 100% asm development for pmode I'd suggest DOS32 or Tran's pmode. The author here credits Tran for some backbones to his system.
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FreePack DOS extender by Narech Koumar of Supernar Systems Intl.
/code/hardware/pmode/dos32a.zip
| 25 Aug 1997 (catalog date)
520,938 bytes
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| Another DOS extender option. I didn't test this for usefulness. I doesn't look any more difficult to learn to use than Adam Seychell's (sp?) Dos32 or Thomas Pytel/Charles Scheffold's Pmode/w. How well it functions is another story. Full documentation available. Comes with a tetris clone presumeably made using the extender. No source.
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Kernel 1.30b
/code/hardware/pmode/krnl130b.zip
| 26 Jun 1997 (catalog date)
314,227 bytes
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| A Pmode kernel program with some extra libraries. Has a sound library and many other extras to make up for the fact that it's rather new and things such as midas, GUSPlay, or whatnot won't work with it. It's picky about assembling (tasm32+wlink only). No real documentation to help you get started.
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Asychronous communitcations code by Lord Logics
/code/hardware/serial/ll_comm.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
56,754 bytes
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| Source for "asynchronous" comm connections - A library meant for opening COM lines and other serial line connections. It's supposedly asynchronous (but maybe in a later version for this only supports one). Not too demo scene relevant, but it could make for great modem-modem networking in a game.
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Bytes Of Wisdom Diskmag Engine Sources by MinMax of Septic Productions
/code/mags/bow5src.zip
| 21 Aug 1998 (catalog date)
109,870 bytes
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| | Sources to diskmag engine written in Watcom C. Can use VBE 1.2/2.0 & textmode. Very flexible. Also it is recomended that you download the diskmag itself (to get the example files) (bow5.zip)
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The Mag by Spellcaster
/code/mags/mag11.zip
| 01 Jul 1997 (catalog date)
95,422 bytes
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| Rating:
| A serial coding magazine. Sorting, matrix algebra, geometric transformations, more complex 3d, still adding to that game. (This magazine has come a long way since issue one and is entirely progressive.)
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Tutorial #17 by Denthor of Asphyxia
/code/tutors/denthor/tut17.zip
| 11 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
18,411 bytes
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| Asphyxia VGA demo trainer:Pixel Morphing & Static - Pixel Morphing is similar to the one of the first few things in Crystal Dream II, or imagine the IFS fractal morphing of Verses or Hex Appeal.
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Bezier and Spline by plash of Azure
/code/tutors/math/azr_bcrv.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
96,843 bytes
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| Examples of Bezier patches and B-spline curves. Read a reference on bezier or spline modelling first. The math is not easy nor is it explained by the author. Good reference if you are having troubles getting your own routines to work.
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truepal by Florian Hallar
/code/tutors/video/at_trpal.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
56,300 bytes
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| Emulates truecolor modes in 320x200x8. Not really... it just converts the picture to use a 3-3-2 palette. It's a common emulation mode since it saves time versus quantizing a new palette everyframe (maybe in 5 years we could do that, even if we don't need it anymore. :)
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Bin to H by Lev Iserovich
/code/utils/compiler/bin2h.zip
| 12 Aug 1997 (catalog date)
11,097 bytes
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| A bin 2 h/obj. Actually produces obj files, but only works with Turbo C with a little tweaking for Borland C. (same company yes, slightly different compilers.) (By extension, you should be able to get it to work with TASM.)
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tinyRTL by Solar Designer
/code/utils/compiler/bpc-trtl.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
13,314 bytes
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| A pas TPU with source for creating small exes - A TPU that replaces the system TPU in Turbo Pascal so that small .exes can be made. The example .exes are deceiving as there is no built in support for writing text and other such things. Knowledge of assembler will be necessary for most programs you'd write with this.
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DeKompress DOS32 by Dark Fibre
/code/utils/compiler/dkd32.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
12,414 bytes
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| Decompresses files made with and compressed via DOS32 - This utility could be useful for rippers faced with intros coded with DOS32. It will unpack the exe and one can use further programs to extract mod files or graphics.
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MikDLL library by MikMak
/code/utils/compiler/mikdll.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
20,844 bytes
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| A dynamic library loader for BC/DOS - This is a rather complex piece of code not designed for the beginner. It shows you how you could create a dynamic library so that you can load code at runtime. Suggested use is for a mod player to load the specific sound card's drivers run time.
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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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| 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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Vfixppsl - Vesa Fix Pixels Per Scan Line by Saint
/code/utils/graphics/vfixppsl.zip
| 12 Jun 1998 (catalog date)
2,392 bytes
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| | This little TSR sets the number of pixels per scan line to match the x resolution of the visible screen. Usefull for demos / games that assume the logical width of a scan line to be equal to the physical width. Includes ASM source code.
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WIN95 And Demos Starter by Cute Elf
/code/windows/ce-win95.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
18,929 bytes
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| Library for using DirectDraw for making demo effects. Use Winzip to decompress archive because of the long file names. If using DirectX 5, you have to change two lines in DirectXConversion.cpp to type cast to (DirectDrawSurface2 *). When you try to compile, you'll know which lines those are. Hmm... maybe wince stands for Win-CuteElf. (If you see this, are you going back there?)
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Windows Tutorial by Denthor of Asphyxia
/code/windows/wintut1.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
15,071 bytes
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| Rating:
| Windows Tutorial 1. Denthor's back with some tutorials on windows graphics program. I (and he) recommend that you still get another reference (like a *gasp* book) if you know absolutely nothing about programming windows and intend to get serious about it. The tut has just enough info to grasp how windows works, the mindset needed for coding, and some basic messages windows can throw at you. Good for the ultra-beginner with windows. (Oh, the example here is a star field)
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Second Phobia by Noice
/demos/1993/0-9/2phobia.zip
| 29 Jun 1996 (catalog date)
182,752 bytes
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| Rating:
| Released at event TP93 in the demo division and ranked 05
Really nice intro with some bitplane-mapping (& rotating), vectors, vector-dots, etc. There is such a bug, it supports GUS only at 220 (for other base-ports un-pklite this program and change 0x220 (the only one) in code to your base address).
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