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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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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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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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Black Ice source by Sinbad
/code/demosrc/bbsintro/blacdemo.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
432,910 bytes
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| Sources for a large BBS intro with a scrollie, fire, and a zoomer - Comments for the effects, recompiles easily. Shows influences from Mental Surgery, mainly in the sound code. Old effects, but recent code.
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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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| 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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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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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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| 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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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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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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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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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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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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File (de)concatenator by Kli
/code/fileutil/klitar10.zip
| 17 Jan 1999 (catalog date)
19,344 bytes
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| Rating:
| Puts separate files in one big file and separates them again. Not very useful, unless you want to use it as a utility for your own virtual file system.
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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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| Rating:
| 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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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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Flat Real Mode Interface by Juanito
/code/hardware/memory/frmi_150.exe
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
38,210 bytes
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| An interface for flat real mode from BC - Has some docs on xms and comments explaining how the interface works itself. I didn't test to see if it works. Doesn't work in v86 mode, meaning most programs made with this will require a reboot.
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Virtual Memory Management by Flux
/code/hardware/memory/fxvmm210.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
112,232 bytes
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| A virtual memory management interface for BC - Once again, I didn't test this. This system is much more complete than the above and certainly much more useful. From the code, I'd say I'd like to work with this guy. :)
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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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| Rating:
| 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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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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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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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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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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| 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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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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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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ASCII ART Lib by Jan Hubicka
/code/utils/graphics/aalib10.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
133,184 bytes
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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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Tiny PCX by Sugar Less
/code/utils/graphics/tinypcx.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
1,165 bytes
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| 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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Vfixppsl - Vesa Fix Pixels Per Scan Line by Saint
/code/utils/graphics/vfixppsl.zip
| 12 Jun 1998 (catalog date)
2,392 bytes
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| | This little TSR sets the number of pixels per scan line to match the x resolution of the visible screen. Usefull for demos / games that assume the logical width of a scan line to be equal to the physical width. Includes ASM source code.
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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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4k or Less by Paranoids
/demos/1994/0-9/4k_less.zip
| 29 Jun 1996 (catalog date)
4,340 bytes
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| Released at event ASM94 in the in4k division and ranked XX
4kB intro presented at Asm'94: morphing letters '4k' to 'or' and then 'less': and the main part (and the only) is a waving vector plane in several ways.
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