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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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| Rating: 
| 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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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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Rotating 3d escher-knot by Oliver Nash
/code/3d/systems/gsescher.zip
| 30 Jun 1998 (catalog date)
19,895 bytes
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| Rating:
| 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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Raw GFX Lib by Ghyll of TGA
/code/3d/systems/tgarx2b1.zip
| 02 Jul 1997 (catalog date)
34,488 bytes
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| An elementary graphics system. The functions are very base and it's a good idea for anyone coding graphics engines either to understand how those functions work or to be given higher level functions to work with.
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GUS Environment by Patch
/code/audio/detect/gusenv.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
1,481 bytes
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| Rating:
| Grabs the Ultrasnd environment for you - Good for those who don't know how to find an environment variable, but it doesn't tell you much. It may give you a place to start.
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Space Port 2 BBS intro source by PSI
/code/demosrc/bbsintro/fcsp2src.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
32,242 bytes
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| Rating:
| Sources to a BBS intro with ADlib music, scrollie, and star field all in 1993 bytes - The Adlib player in this BBS intro has been ripped and used time and time again by many people. Simple and easy to use. Kudos to those who have credited the source of where they got their player.
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Micaco BBS ad source by Chc
/code/demosrc/bbsintro/micsrc41.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
190,207 bytes
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| Rating:
| Source for a BBS ad with an environment mapped object - It's all asm source, but you need Watcom to compile it. Comes with an extra ASC file format converter. All comments are in Spanish though there's a (shorter) Enlish readme file. Knowing Spanish is very useful for these sources as the comments are good.
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The Shed BBS loader source by naich
/code/demosrc/bbsintro/the_shed.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
11,922 bytes
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| Rating:
| Source for a BBS loader with smoothe text scrolling (horizontal), dual layer starfield, and nifty fade out - Good comments, rather large source as it could use a random number generator as opposed to a table and some other (obvious?) size optimization concerns.
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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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Amnesia Vector source by Tran of Renaissance
/code/demosrc/demos/as.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
7,047 bytes
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| Rating:
| 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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Bytes & Kisses source by Jeff Lawson of JL Enterprise
/code/demosrc/demos/bkisssrc.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
513,669 bytes
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| Rating:
| Sources for a demo with a scrollie, plasma, shadebobs, tunnel, bitmap rotation and stretching, and cool credits - Nice comments, but not precompiled. add /misc.!!! to your path and be sure to have pklite somewhere in your path. Go through each directory and use Borland's make on all the targets of each make file. Then make bytekiss.exe from /. Nice demo for its time, but frightfully boring except on Valentine's day. :)
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Byte B4 Christmas source by Jeff Lawson of JL Enterprise
/code/demosrc/demos/byte-src.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
560,382 bytes
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| Sources for a demo with snowflakes, fire, and some text writers - Nice comments, but not precompiled. add /misc.!!! to your path and be sure to have pklite somewhere in your path. Go through each directory and use Borland's make on all the targets of each make file. Then make bytekiss.exe from /. Nice demo for its time, but frightfully boring except on Christmas Eve :)
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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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Phro source by Phred of OTM
/code/demosrc/demos/phro.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
294,474 bytes
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| Source for a demo with texture mapping, space cut, motion blur, a tunnel, and texture warping - All pascal with inline assembler. Good source, but no comments.
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Birthday source by Sliq
/code/demosrc/intros/birthsrc.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
25,025 bytes
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| Rating:
| Sources for an intro with simple 3d - Comments for the proceedures, easy to read source. Shows influences from Mental Surgery, mainly in the interupt handling. Old sources (1993), but otherwise good.
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bits'93 source by David Hedley
/code/demosrc/intros/bits93.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
34,416 bytes
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| Rating:
| Sources for an intro with a bouncing lens and a sinus scroller - Few comments. Shows influences from Mental Surgery, mainly in the interrupt routines. Old sources (1993), good timing of effects.
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Chaos 4k intro source by Codex
/code/demosrc/intros/chaos4k1.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
14,345 bytes
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| Rating:
| Sources for a 4k intro with static, sinus scrollie, vector cube, and some other stuff - No comments or description. Rather non-standard C at that, but I wonder how else a 4k intro would be made in C. Good for the curious.
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bglass by Konrad Olejnik of K!O
/code/effects/lens/bglass.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
50,803 bytes
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| Rating:
| Bumped glass routine. For TMT pascal. You might call this a bump map type effect. The difference I'm going to call is that bump map routines alter light intensity while lens routines change your position in a texture map. Interesting way to get the timer! :) For C users, that would be int *time = 0x046C. See a BIOS data reference for further details.
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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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| Rating:
| 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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| Rating:
| 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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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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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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| Rating:
| 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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Collection of ASM sources by ? of Blue Nose Productions
/code/hardware/general/asm_good.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
118,612 bytes
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| Rating:
| Lots of ASM sources, mostly for hardware and BIOS routines - It's somewhat difficult to find what you want, but the comments tell you what you need to know (but not what you have to do) to get everything compiled. Looks like a great source for the cut & paste coder. Given the nature of the routines, I'd say that was the intended purpose of this release.
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Keyboard handler by Patch
/code/hardware/keyboard/kbdhand9.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
26,409 bytes
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| Source for making a keyboard handler (int 9) and reading the keyboard from the handler - Doesn't tell you much, but is a good demonstration. I'd suggest for those needing to write a keyboard handler is to get a hardware reference for the keyboard and see what other options are available and how the code works.
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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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| 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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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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| Rating:
| 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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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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Boot by ? of Ooze
/code/utils/boot/0l_boot.zip
| 25 Aug 1997 (catalog date)
81,135 bytes
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| Reboots & boot sector util. A utility that'll reboot your computer (which isn't terribly useful) and to read/write boot sectors. It's a good, hard to find utility for someone just poking into that sort of stuff.
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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
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| 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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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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30 Demo by Noice
/demos/1993/0-9/30_demo.zip
| 29 Jun 1996 (catalog date)
40,554 bytes
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| Rating:
| Demo contains rotating cube (so obvious), low-zoom plasma (so good, because you cannot see plasma in any other demo this way - always there is a high zoom (because looks better :-), then a dot-ball (also obvious), and end-scroller (thats all???? yes....)
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1st Infection by N-Factor
/demos/1994/0-9/1infect.zip
| 29 Jun 1996 (catalog date)
788,796 bytes
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| Released at event WIR94 in the demo division and ranked ??
N-Factor's first production, released at Wired'94 - a good "first-time" production for a new group. Lots of vector objects, some unlimited bobs, and textured planes - a top and bottom of the screen - but they are doing many things with this simple transform table: like really interesting flight of space ship over you (like in 2nd Reality), but textured (looks much-much better).
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42 by Halcyon
/demos/1994/0-9/42.zip
| 29 Jun 1996 (catalog date)
67,994 bytes
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| Released at event ASM94 in the in64 division and ranked XX
Good beginning on this demo. Blue fire effect, going into zooming routines to delay dots, to 3-d fire. There are other interesting effects. To get past some parts of the demo the user must press Escape. The music is also a little repetitve at times... Without a GUS I couldn't get the entire demo.
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4 Kings by Orange
/demos/1994/0-9/4kings.zip
| 29 Jun 1996 (catalog date)
57,584 bytes
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| Rating:
| Released at event ASM94 in the in64 division and ranked 10
A nice, unique look to this demo sets it apart from others. Lots of mathematical based code. Opens up with four grahpics in the corners and a bouncing pixel that opens up to the title. Good design doesn't stay with any one routine for too long.
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