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the book POCKET PC GAME PROGRAMMING USING WINDOWS CE


Postby angedelamort » Jun 26, 2002 @ 2:48am

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Postby R0B » Jun 26, 2002 @ 3:32am

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Postby Digby » Jun 26, 2002 @ 5:28am

On the back cover of the book, near the bottom, there is a mention of the target audience for the enclosed material. It's marked "Beginner/Advanced".

How can something be written for beginners and at the same time be for advanced game developers? The book is obviously a beginner-level text.
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Postby Kzinti » Jun 26, 2002 @ 6:32am

It is a beginner's book. It's a good book, but still a beginner's one.

It is also the book who motivated me to start working on PocketFrog. If you've seen the older versions (pre 0.5.0), they look quite similar to the author's own library.

I was also thinking about writing a book myself when the author contacted me. He basically said that if he was ever to write another book on PocketPC game programming, he would like my input after seeing what I did with PocketFrog.

Altough I think it's a great idea, I don't see myself spending time on this when I can't even find any to write proper docs for the library.
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more problems

Postby UMCP_matt » Jun 27, 2002 @ 12:30am

he also has program calling BMP files that never exist..

oh well I guess its good practice to go make my own.. mayb eits on purpose?

I am confusde when you all say he does not use GAPI.. I though that is what is at th eheart of th eDrawPixel function ???
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Postby R0B » Jun 27, 2002 @ 12:36am

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what is the reason for that?

Postby UMCP_matt » Jun 27, 2002 @ 8:55pm

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