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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 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/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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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ACiDween loader by Wonder Monkey of Acid /code/demosrc/bbsintro/wm-h_src.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
76,513 bytes
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| Source for a halloween BBS loader - So-So source. Scarey warnings about ripping. But I'm sure I'll want this guy's routine for masking off bits. I suppose he thinks SHR AL, 3: SHL AL, 3 is faster than AND AL, 11111000b.
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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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| 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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| 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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Fake demo source by Pelusa /code/demosrc/demos/fakedemo.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
335,424 bytes
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| Sources for a demo with a sinus waver, wormhole, rotating landscape, fire, scrollie, shadebobs, lens, mandelbrot set zoomer - Comments for proceedures, many parts, lots to look over. Clean code too. (old cheesy necros music. :)
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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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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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Birthday source by Sliq /code/demosrc/intros/birthsrc.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
25,025 bytes
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| 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Water by Yamaha of XYZZ /code/effects/water/watrxyzz.zip
| 25 Aug 1997 (catalog date)
128,613 bytes
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| A water effect sample. Won't compile as is since it's missing quite a number of library files. Get hq_water if you want to understand this effect. Get this afterwards only if you can't understand asm.
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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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Virtual File System by Dark Fiber /code/fileutil/ilfs202b.zip
| 17 Jan 1999 (catalog date)
110,874 bytes
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| For Watcom C and DOS32 Assembler. Puts all your datafiles in one big file. Does not compress the data, and you have to do too many things by yourself that could have been done by the library.
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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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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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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 by Herman Dullink /code/hardware/memory/flat.zip
| 10 Jan 1997 (catalog date)
11,758 bytes
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| 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 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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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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| 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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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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Xi Development System by Fysx /code/hardware/pmode/xids0815.zip
| 19 Jan 1998 (catalog date)
43,131 bytes
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| 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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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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Multipage VGA Library by Lin Ke-Fong /code/library/mpvga10.zip
| 01 Dec 1997 (catalog date)
84,061 bytes
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| VGA library by Lin Ke-Fong. Very good tweaked vga library. It automaticaly detects the vga card to offer as much functionality as possible instead of using the standard vga settings only like most libraries do.
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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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| 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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