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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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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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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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| 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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oplid by ? of Audiotrix /code/audio/detect/oplid.zip
| 11 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
31,180 bytes
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| Detects what type of OPL chip is on your sound card - An ad for audiotrix more than anything else. No code. It looks like there should be more files in the archive than there are.
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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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IW SDK /code/audio/docs/iw_sdk20.zip
| 10 Jul 1997 (catalog date)
2,796,518 bytes
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| 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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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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Midas v1.11 by Sahara Surfers /code/audio/players/midas111.zip
| 17 Jan 1999 (catalog date)
1,981,785 bytes
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| This version fixes some bugs in the 1.1 version, which was really necessary because some demos who used that version really sounded bad on a gus, so make sure you use this version, and not an older one!
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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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Sound Deluxe System 5.04 by Maple Leaf /code/audio/players/sds504.zip
| 17 Jan 1999 (catalog date)
603,983 bytes
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| This player supports a lot of different module formats, but the GUS support seems to have a bug because I hear nothing, while it works great on my Soundblaster Pro. It supports a lot of different languages, including Turbo Basic!
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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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| 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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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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Data (de)compressing Library by Markus Oberhumer /code/compress/lzo100.zip
| 17 Jan 1999 (catalog date)
375,931 bytes
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| 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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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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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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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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| 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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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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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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| 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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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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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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Timeless source by Tran /code/demosrc/demos/timesrc.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
356,568 bytes
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| 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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1k source by Frenzy of SparC /code/demosrc/intros/1k_sourc.zip
| 18 Mar 1997 (catalog date)
11,052 bytes
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| source to a 1k intro (911 bytes). Easy to follow code, but it's ideal you understand it all in the first place. Odd use of fpu (uses lots of fi[blah] instructions... why not take advantage of extra precision?)
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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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| 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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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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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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Iguana Landscape by JCAB, Jare of Iguana /code/effects/land/ign_land.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
23,458 bytes
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| The voxel landscape from Heartquake - No explaination of the effect, non-recompileable. The code is largely dependant on code libraries that the coders have developed and is thus somewhat difficult to follow.
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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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bglass by Konrad Olejnik of K!O /code/effects/lens/bglass.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
50,803 bytes
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| 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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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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Starz V1.0 by VuLgAr UnIcOrN /code/effects/stars/starz10.zip
| 03 Jun 1998 (catalog date)
154,676 bytes
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| | This is a 2D side scrolling stars demo. There are multiple star speeds / sizes / colors. There are also lots of options like directions and color changing. It is written using C++ in the MS VC++5.0/MFC environment.
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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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| 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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| 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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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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| 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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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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| 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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Intel docs by ? /code/hardware/cpu/intel.doc
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
114,654 bytes
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| A complete listing of the 80x86 opcodes - Great reference for those learning assembler and those needing to double check opcodes. Dubious clock listings (none for pentium.)
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Pentium Stuff /code/hardware/cpu/pentium.zip
| 01 Jul 1997 (catalog date)
164,896 bytes
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| 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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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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| 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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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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Eclipse operating System v3.05 /code/hardware/pmode/e_os305.zip
| 30 Jun 1998 (catalog date)
1,442,821 bytes
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| 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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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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Cutter /code/images/cutter1.zip
| 15 Apr 1997 (catalog date)
68,240 bytes
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| | Graphics Cutter v1.0 is a scripting language used in cutting graphics from PCX files. Unzip with -d option (subdirectories). Saves palette info, include files, and object files. Object files are stored in MODE 0x13 and MODE X formats. DEMO of bouncing balls included. Source available in registered version.
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