Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer
From: kkeltner@netcom.com (Kent Keltner)
Subject: New Book? "Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus"
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 05:20:18 GMT

... LOTS deleted and edited by x2ftp.oulu.fi maintainer ...
BTW the book uses Microsoft C compiler.

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It's called "Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus", by LaMothe, Ratcliff,
Seminatore, and Tyler. SAMS Publishing and comes with a CD Rom.
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The Books has a printed Price on it of $45 and Computer Literacy is
selling it for $49.95. It's steep in both cases.. (I noticed the price
difference, walked in and the guy gave me a answer similar to "Oh,
that's the suggested Price.  We charge whatever's on the sticker. I
just work here.")

It's about 750 pages big, decent Size and brags on the cover about
being able to do DOOM-like games. I just hope there's other useful
stuff inside.

-Kent

From: tnpark@crl.com (Thomas N. Park)
Date: 18 Aug 1994 22:08:31 -0700

  FYI, here's a recent post from Compuserve about this book.
The poster was Chris Denny of SAMS publishing.  (I am not
associated with the book or the publisher.)

> Following is the Table of Contents from SAMS' Tricks of the Game 
> Programming Gurus by request. (ISBN 0-672-30507-0)
> 
> 1   A Video Game Primer
> 2   Assembly Language Bascis
> 3   Input Devices
> 4   The Mechanics of Two-Dimensional Graphics
> 5   The Mysteries of the VGA Card
> 6   The Third Dimension
> 7   Advanced Bit-Mapped Graphics and Special FX
> 8   High-Speed 3D Sprites
> 9   Sound FX and Music
> 10  Implementing Computer Game Music
> 11  Video Game Algorithms, Data Structures, and Methodologies
> 12  Surreal Time, Interrupts, and Multitasking
> 13  Synthetic Intelligence
> 14  Linking Up
> 15  The Toolchest
> 16  Creating Art for Your Game
> 17  Parallax Scrolling Techniques
> 18  Optimization Techniques
> 19  Warlock
> 
> You can order the book directly from Macmmillan Publishing at 
> (800) 428-5331

hope I'm not wasting bandwidth with this...
--tnp