New to PPC games programming? try my articles on PocketFrog

[Conan]

PocketFrog is a free game development library with full source code available & a great bunch of chaps (and Pam, the only girl?) to help with your problems. My articles are designed to save beginners most of the probelms in their first steps.


This forum (remeber to search it for solutions as they are nearly all there already) is the best place to discuss issues & upgrades.

PocketFrog works on all PocketPCs and Microsoft's Smartphone (SPV & Motorola MPX etc). You can also develop using a desktop PC using Visual C++ instead of the embedded tools which can really speed development.

Your contributions to PF are welcome. If you come up with a good extension you can add it to PF.

(ps: the author of PocketFrog, Thierry, is also developing PocketHAL which is to do with the very important area of getting your graphics from memory to screen as fast as possible)

[jweldin]

Thank you for updating the tutorials!

[jweldin]

A correction for page http://www.sundialsoft.freeserve.co.uk/ ... og_Ch1.htm : you can buy .net related technologies now .

[Conan]

re: .net, I updated chapter one mainly re: version 0.7.0. As to developing with .net for PocketPC I don't know the current situation fully but I got the idea that it was not being used much for games.

I will update the other tutorials in the next few weeks as I get free time. I'm just starting to use Hekkus with PF at the moment so once I am familiar with it I will do an article on sound as I have Hekkus, FMOD & Mikmod all working with PF>

Assuming the author's don't mind I will also put up downloads for the various effects demos which are not included with the 0.7.0 release.

[jweldin]

Conan, you rock!

[fzammetti]

[Conan]

[jweldin]

[fzammetti]

I have posted the last archive of the web site for anyone to download. Here's the address:



I'll leave it up for a few days and then reclaim the space

It contains the entire site, code, content and all. Feel free to use the content any way you want. You can also use the ASP code if you wish, change it however you want, it's fine with me, just put a line of credit for me somewhere and I'll be a happy camper.

You may want to coordinate with Thierry though. Last I knew he was going to post this stuff, but I don't think he's gotten around to it. I'd bet he would welcome someone else dealing with it, but that's just a guess, it's for him to say obviously. I just don't want to see all these samples and docs and such be lost.

[akn81]