- Paperback: 474 pages
- Publisher: Waite Group; 3rd edition (1 Feb 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1571690301
- ISBN-13: 978-1571690302
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 18.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
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- #26 in Books > Computers & Internet > Computer Science > Programming > Games Programming > Direct
- #39 in Books > Computers & Internet > Computer Science > Programming > Microsoft Windows > Direct3D & DirectX
- #45 in Books > Computers & Internet > Computer Science > Programming > Microsoft Windows > Win32 API
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This text and CD-ROM package takes the reader through the entire game creation process, providing all the tools needed to create their own Windows 95 game. It covers every aspects of creating games with sound, animation, 3D graphics and multi-player capabilities.
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Format:Paperback
The chapters written by Keith Weiner were excellent reading. Anyone that wants to learn about sound in win32 game programming should read these. Andre LaMothe should read it too, and take notes on how to write books.
Format:Paperback
This is a terrible book on DirectX. It seems that the author doesn't want to teach you DirectX, but would rather just have you cut and paste his code into your program and use it without understanding how it works. Example: "We won't dig into code here; we'll just skim over it..."(166). That is no way to teach someone. He makes DirectDraw much more complicated than it really is. I do know a good bit of DirectX now, but no thanks to this book. Also, all of his programs are poor quality. I still consider myself a beginner DirectX programmer, but I can thow together better programs in one day, no joke, they're that bad!
Format:Paperback
This book covers the entire DirectX API very well. Although it doesn't go into EXTEREME detail, it's a very good overview and will give you a very good introduction.
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A very poor book for teaching DirectX.
From all appearances DirectX seems to be a extremely clumsy and tedious interface. The author works around this by wrapping all the DirectX details in his own classes. Read more
Published on 10 Feb 1999
I wanted to learn DirectX, not the Jason Kolb graphical API.
I'm not sure about just what this book is trying to accomplish. The cover announces it as a guide to directX 3, however nearly the entire book deals with the author's... Read more
Published on 13 Dec 1998
This book is GREAT!
I bought this book after I had some experiance with C/C++, and I want to learn how to use DirectX. This book showed me how to in VERY good examples. Read more
Published on 10 Nov 1998
A vague intro to DirectX
If you want to learn how the author implemented DirectX in some rather shaky examples then go ahead and buy this book. Read more
Published on 22 Oct 1998
It is okay for beginners, but...
This book was helpful at first but then I realized that the author was hidding DirectX in wrappers. Read more
Published on 16 Oct 1998
Poor
This book explains the DirectX api poorly. Most of examples are poorly written and always put my system into a unstable state after I run them. Read more
Published on 15 July 1998
What a total waste of money
This book is an absolute debacle. The code dosen't work, the examples are terrible and there are about 4 chapters on absolutely nothing to do with anything. Read more
Published on 13 Jun 1998
This book is s***
This book s****. I found it to be lacking in every way possible as a help when developing my own code. Read more
Published on 30 Mar 1998
Not Quite Sure
I Haven't read the whole book yet due to the fact that I am not sure how to link, or deal with the error that I get with Borland C++ 5. Read more
Published on 19 Feb 1998
Thumbs up
The intended audience (accomplished Win32 programmers w/o DirectX experience) will find this book very helpful -- more so than the DirectX online help. Read more
Published on 2 Jan 1998
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