Hello everyone, My name is Frank, a book-author and avid-gamer in Taiwan (I've played over 500 well-known computer games, most of them RPGs.) Recently I'm ...
asmilingface@...
Jul 25, 2001 11:27 am
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Hi Frank, Welcome to the group. Learning game programming often seems a daunting task, don't start out trying to make a complicated game. You should check out...
Forest Handford
forestj@...
Jul 25, 2001 1:45 pm
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the EastCoastGames group. File :...
EastCoastGames@yahoog...
Jul 25, 2001 1:46 pm
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Hello Forest, Thanks for the remark. I won't (and can't) make complicated games at this moment anyway. I've been looking through the tutorials you post in...
asmilingface@...
Jul 26, 2001 5:57 am
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Into Networks is having an open house August 1st for Boston Area game developers. Come and learn about how streaming software is impacting your business and...
Halpern, Li
lhalpern@...
Jul 27, 2001 9:19 pm
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Hi All, I just banned incense@... and deleted his or her spam. Sorry about how long it took me. Thanks, Forest...
Forest Handford
forestj@...
Aug 4, 2001 11:24 pm
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ok, this is probably more of design/graphics question, but maybe someone can help. I'm learning a lot more about programming (C++), but I'm also messing around...
Mitko
mhris@...
Aug 8, 2001 3:33 pm
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It all depends on the type of game you are writing. If you are doing a 3/4 Isometric, then you can probably just render them as bitmaps. If you are making a 3d...
Cevin Milner
tree_tosser@...
Aug 9, 2001 3:43 pm
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I had another idea about how you might want to proceed with this problem: I'm not sure if you'll be able to do this as it would depend on the specifications of...
Rob Zimmerman
rob.z@...
Aug 10, 2001 7:56 pm
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Thats a good idea, and it would be pretty easy to do, since I think Direct Draw will let you set a color-key and automatically blit it as transparent any pixel...
Cevin Milner
tree_tosser@...
Aug 11, 2001 3:10 pm
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That sounds like a really good idea. I dont know how I'm going to do it yet, but I'll definatly give that a try. Thanks :). Mitko ...
Dimitar Hristov
mhris@...
Aug 11, 2001 4:01 pm
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Glad I could be of help to you, please post a followup later if that works for you and how you managed it, I'd love to find out if it's possible with DD and...
Rob Zimmerman
rob.z@...
Aug 11, 2001 4:06 pm
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Ok, I read that DirectX 8.0 got its DD messed up and microsoft is concentrating on D3D instead now... I can't find the DirectX 7.0 SDK, anyone know where I can...
Mitko
mhris@...
Aug 11, 2001 11:02 pm
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Direct Draw is still in there, but instead of just creating a DIRECTDRAWOBJECT or whatever it is, you would use DIRECTDRAWOBJECT7 (or replace 7 with whatever...
Cevin Milner
tree_tosser@...
Aug 12, 2001 4:11 pm
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To add to what Cevin Milner, there is a good article on how to use DirectDraw using DirectX 8.0 at http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20010629/geczy_01.htm ....
Forest Handford
forestj@...
Aug 13, 2001 1:23 pm
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Hello everyone, Well, I've got a group of people (including me) that want to make a Spycraft (if you've played it) or Myst/Riven type game. The way we'd like...
Raistlin
mkrueger@...
Sep 6, 2001 3:16 am
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hi every one, can any one tell me which is the best site for downloading the projects in c/c++.like gaming,system level programming. thanks, ...
silver sky
luminous_guy2k@...
Sep 29, 2001 11:16 am
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hi every one, can any one tell me which is the best site for downloading the projects in c/c++.like gaming,system level programming. thanks, ...
silver sky
luminous_guy2k@...
Sep 29, 2001 11:17 am
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can any one tell me where i can download the microsoft c/c++ compiler for free thanks, ____________________________________________________________ Do You...
silver sky
luminous_guy2k@...
Sep 29, 2001 11:18 am
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ou are invited to "Animation Party!". For more information and to respond, go to http://invites.yahoo.com/da73bd49f5d7gp6b-jwluzw981/ Hope to see you there, -...
Hi, Anone interested in Game Development under Linux can join this group. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linuxgamed/ Bye....
The Outlaw
rootlogin@...
Dec 27, 2001 5:44 am
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I got to say you have a very useful web site (East Coast Games) and I am a very happy camper now that I have found it for it was exactly what the doctor...
Try Bloodshed or GNU. ***On Wed 5:41a Jan 23 Cloud_Strife_SOLDIER <cloud_strife_soldier@...> wrote*** Anyone know of another one where I don't have to...
Forest Handford
fhandford@...
Jan 23, 2002 2:45 pm
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I hate sounding totaly ignorant, but where might I aquire these fine pieces of software :) -JC ... <cloud_strife_soldier@y...> wrote*** ... ...
I think GNU comes free with most versions of LINUX as well as UNIX. For Bloodshed try http://www.bloodshed.net/ . ***On Wed 9:49a Jan 23 Cloud_Strife_SOLDIER...
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