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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/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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Crappy Texture Map by Mandrill
/code/3d/trifill/texmap/ctm.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
6,214 bytes
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| Rating:
| 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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Tiled Texture Mapping Tutorial by TheGlide of Spinning Kids
/code/3d/trifill/texmap/tiletmap.zip
| 03 Jun 1998 (catalog date)
4,757 bytes
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| | This is a little document that explains how to code a tiled texture mapper that handles any power of 2 texture sizes. The document contains some little C code to get you started. To fully understand the doc you should have already read MRI's fatmap.txt and fatmap2.txt.
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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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| 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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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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42 Source by Maniac of LBA
/code/demosrc/bbsintro/lba42src.zip
| 26 Jun 1997 (catalog date)
10,213 bytes
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| BBS ad with a scroller and a lighting-esque effect. Both an asm and Pascal version compile, though the pascal version looks like nothing more than a rewrite of the asm code in Pascal's inline syntax. Few comments.
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Power Grid loader source by Friar Tuck of Ice
/code/demosrc/bbsintro/pgloader.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
80,967 bytes
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| Source for a BBS loader with a text writer, music, and a lens - Has the adlib player from fcsp2src.zip. No comments. The lens is nice as the equations used make it look like a crystal ball.
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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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| 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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| 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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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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Gallery Source by ARM of Iguana
/code/effects/doom/gallery.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
593,716 bytes
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| Source to Iguana's gallery scene from Inconexia (a doom clone) - Nice code, but low accuracy on the maths. Cool pictures, but I saw them the first time, when they were in the Prado. :) I always thought that there should have been an Easter Egg for May 3rd. Run subdirs.exe to get the full source.
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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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Chaotic Fractal Screensaver by Magister of Phazix
/code/effects/fractal/mfract.zip
| 24 Apr 1998 (catalog date)
16,607 bytes
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| | A screensaver of sorts (plain DOS only, no Windows 95) that zooms into the Mandelbrot set and animates the Julia set. Source code included. Also includes a text file that explains fractals and how to generate them. Text, assembler, protected-mode.
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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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Pentium Stuff
/code/hardware/cpu/pentium.zip
| 01 Jul 1997 (catalog date)
164,896 bytes
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| Rating:
| A collection of files on Pentium optimization. Some of these files look very useful, especially for optimizing information and truly esoteric stuff for the terminally curious.
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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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| Rating:
| 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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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 8 in C by Snowman of Hornet
/code/tutors/denthor/tut08new.zip
| 11 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
42,817 bytes
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| Rating:
| Asphyxia VGA demo trainer:Tut 8 in C:3d basics - Includes Denthor's original tutorial release within and has the compiled exe. Remember, these are only basics. (Snowman added a little of his own to this... I loved vector balls spelling things. :)
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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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| Rating:
| 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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truepal by Florian Hallar
/code/tutors/video/at_trpal.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
56,300 bytes
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| Rating:
| 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 2 DB by Escape
/code/utils/compiler/bin2db24.zip
| 12 Aug 1997 (catalog date)
12,087 bytes
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| Rating:
| A bin 2 db util. See my comments to incpro3.zip. Also, take out the "coded in 100% Assembler" line. It's dorky, especially for something whose main function (input/output) is easiest handled by a high level language and whose speed of execution is on the magnitude of 2 seconds.
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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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| Rating:
| 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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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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Tiny PCX by Sugar Less
/code/utils/graphics/tinypcx.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
1,165 bytes
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| Rating:
| 164 byte pcx loader. Only works on 320x200x256 images (because of video mode and failing to check the image's actual size) and doesn't explain the pcx file format (which is more or less trivial)
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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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