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From: kkeltner@netcom.com (Kent Keltner)
Subject: New Book? "Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus"
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 05:20:18 GMT
... LOTS deleted and edited by x2ftp.oulu.fi maintainer ...
BTW the book uses Microsoft C compiler.
...
It's called "Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus", by LaMothe, Ratcliff,
Seminatore, and Tyler. SAMS Publishing and comes with a CD Rom.
...
The Books has a printed Price on it of $45 and Computer Literacy is
selling it for $49.95. It's steep in both cases.. (I noticed the price
difference, walked in and the guy gave me a answer similar to "Oh,
that's the suggested Price. We charge whatever's on the sticker. I
just work here.")
It's about 750 pages big, decent Size and brags on the cover about
being able to do DOOM-like games. I just hope there's other useful
stuff inside.
-Kent
From: tnpark@crl.com (Thomas N. Park)
Date: 18 Aug 1994 22:08:31 -0700
FYI, here's a recent post from Compuserve about this book.
The poster was Chris Denny of SAMS publishing. (I am not
associated with the book or the publisher.)
> Following is the Table of Contents from SAMS' Tricks of the Game
> Programming Gurus by request. (ISBN 0-672-30507-0)
>
> 1 A Video Game Primer
> 2 Assembly Language Bascis
> 3 Input Devices
> 4 The Mechanics of Two-Dimensional Graphics
> 5 The Mysteries of the VGA Card
> 6 The Third Dimension
> 7 Advanced Bit-Mapped Graphics and Special FX
> 8 High-Speed 3D Sprites
> 9 Sound FX and Music
> 10 Implementing Computer Game Music
> 11 Video Game Algorithms, Data Structures, and Methodologies
> 12 Surreal Time, Interrupts, and Multitasking
> 13 Synthetic Intelligence
> 14 Linking Up
> 15 The Toolchest
> 16 Creating Art for Your Game
> 17 Parallax Scrolling Techniques
> 18 Optimization Techniques
> 19 Warlock
>
> You can order the book directly from Macmmillan Publishing at
> (800) 428-5331
hope I'm not wasting bandwidth with this...
--tnp