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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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3D Coding tutorial by Ica of Hubris
/code/3d/docs/3dica221.zip
| 30 Jun 1998 (catalog date)
422,704 bytes
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| 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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| 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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Crappy Texture Map by Mandrill
/code/3d/trifill/texmap/ctm.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
6,214 bytes
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| 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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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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Micaco BBS ad source by Chc
/code/demosrc/bbsintro/micsrc41.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
190,207 bytes
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| 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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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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BB Demo Source by Jan Hubicka
/code/demosrc/demos/bbsrc.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
1,575,247 bytes
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| Rating:
| Text Mode/ASCII demo for DOS and UNIX. Requires gcc to compile unless you really want to mess with the makefiles. Also requires /code/utils/graphics/aa-lib10.zip. Nicely done.
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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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| Rating:
| 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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Seasick source by Draeden of VLA
/code/demosrc/intros/sea_code.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
33,542 bytes
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| Source for an intro with a reflecting scrollie and text writer - Old source, but well constructed. Great for those who just know asm, but don't know how to put something complete together using just asm.
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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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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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| 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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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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Tom's Plasma by Tom Dibble
/code/effects/plasma/tplas11.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
139,950 bytes
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| 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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Tunnel Source by bca of Karva
/code/effects/tunnel/bca_tnl.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
19,956 bytes
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| A texture mapped tunnel effect. Has holes in the tunnel. No useful comments in the source. One nifty (old!) idea of taking advantage of mirrors in the lookup table. FYI - vasen=left, oikea=right, yl„=upper, ala=lower.
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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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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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| 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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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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Real Memory by Chatter
/code/hardware/memory/realmem.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
10,850 bytes
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| Supposedly gets you past the 64k barrier in real mode - I have no clue what compiler this is supposed to compile for. It uses opcodes not allowed in BC's inline assembler, watcom doesn't use that kind of inline assembler (and doesn't need this extender anyway), and this is pointless for djgpp which only compiles 32bit pmode apps. I have neither TC (but considering that's a sub-set of BC I can assume it won't work) nor Quick C (but that's so old, it's inline assembler's probably incomplete too).
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386 power by Lorenzo Micheletto
/code/hardware/pmode/386p_101.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
117,845 bytes
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| A DOS extender for pmode asm programming - Has docs for useage and some extra miscellaneous routines that could be used for game or graphics programming in pmode. Honestly, if you want to do 100% asm development for pmode I'd suggest DOS32 or Tran's pmode. The author here credits Tran for some backbones to his system.
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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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System 64 by Simm of Analogue
/code/hardware/pmode/s64.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
61,037 bytes
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| 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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Xi Development System by Fysx
/code/hardware/pmode/xids0815.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
43,131 bytes
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| Rating:
| Xi Development System, a pmode extender. Uses tlink in the end, but works from watcom and tasm. Possibly a contender if you're writing a 64k intro and need a pmode extender. I'm unsure of it's stability, but it's small.
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Bytes Of Wisdom Diskmag Engine Sources by MinMax of Septic Productions
/code/mags/bow5src.zip
| 21 Aug 1998 (catalog date)
109,870 bytes
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| | Sources to diskmag engine written in Watcom C. Can use VBE 1.2/2.0 & textmode. Very flexible. Also it is recomended that you download the diskmag itself (to get the example files) (bow5.zip)
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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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| 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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| 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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