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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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| Rating: 
| 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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| 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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| Rating:
| 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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oplid by ? of Audiotrix
/code/audio/detect/oplid.zip
| 11 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
31,180 bytes
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| Rating:
| 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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IW SDK
/code/audio/docs/iw_sdk20.zip
| 10 Jul 1997 (catalog date)
2,796,518 bytes
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| Rating:
| 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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StarPlayer by Jedi of Oxygen
/code/audio/players/sp-code.zip
| 25 Aug 1997 (catalog date)
125,394 bytes
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| Rating:
| 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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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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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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| Rating:
| 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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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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Flat Real by Herman Dullink
/code/hardware/memory/flat.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
11,758 bytes
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| Rating:
| A flat real mode interface - For those who'd rather kludge real mode than switch to protected mode. Conceivably useful for 4k intros which may need a quick and cheap entry into a flat memory model.
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Flat Real Mode by Nix of Massive
/code/hardware/memory/mass-frm.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
8,248 bytes
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| Rating:
| A flat real mode interface - For those who'd rather kludge real mode than switch to protected mode. Conceivably useful for 4k intros which may need a quick and cheap entry into a flat memory model.
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System 64 by Simm of Analogue
/code/hardware/pmode/s64.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
61,037 bytes
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| Rating:
| A DOS protected mode extender - Comes with full source and looks fairly complete including real mode call back support. Worth giving a look at if you'll find it easier to use than Tran's pmode or DOS32.
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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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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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GEMA by ? of Sector One
/code/utils/compiler/gema16.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
118,143 bytes
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| Rating:
| An assembler for those used to 68k assemblers - Avids believe that this assembler is more precise and makes more sense. I'll give them the former any day. It certainly does have many advantages over TASM and MASM with the exception of wide support. :(
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GEMA by ? of Sector One
/code/utils/compiler/gema26aa.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
148,691 bytes
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| An assembler for those used to 68k assemblers - Avids believe that this assembler is more precise and makes more sense. I'll give them the former any day. It certainly does have many advantages over TASM and MASM with the exception of wide support. :(
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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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| Rating:
| 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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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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Text Mode FLI/FLC Player
/code/video/txtfli.zip
| 06 Oct 1996 (catalog date)
99,695 bytes
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| Rating:
| Buggy mode set, only worked in a dos box from win '95. Had information about the text mode demo compo and was rather impressive for what it did. Otherwise, tight code for what it does, sparce, useless comments.
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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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