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Posted by: Godzil on 2016-08-03 06:26:29
Hi everyone,
I've recently bought the book "Tricks of the Mac Game Programming Gurus" (ISBN 1-56830-183-9) as I have a few graphic/game development project that I want to make them run on old 68k macintosh (if my libs can at least work starting from the Plus it would be really nice)
I've already started to play a bit with old version of Think-C / Codewarrior on my beloved Powerbook G3 (a bronze keyboard one)
So I bought that book to find some tricks used at that time with graphic development on the Macintosh, especially early one as I'm having trouble with some (non color) QuickDraw quirks that are not documented in the IM books.
Anyway the CDROM wasn't included in the second hand book I bought. And I wonder if anyone here have this book and the CDROM that come with it and would like to share an ISO image of that disk that would be nice as the book reference a lot the code on the CD without necessarily copy/paste it in the book.
That would be really nice 🙂
(to the admin, sorry if this topic is in the wrong area, that not really a trade, and I don't think there is any "request" forum)
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Posted by: techknight on 2016-08-03 15:40:56
Honestly, I would look for apple official programming guides as they explain all the toolbox calls and the other various APIs and mnemonics for the OS you will need.
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Posted by: bdurbrow on 2016-08-03 17:28:08
I *think* I have that... I'll go see if I still do...
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Posted by: bdurbrow on 2016-08-03 21:02:06
I can't seem to find it now. Sorry... 🙁
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Posted by: Godzil on 2016-08-04 02:16:05
Honestly, I would look for apple official programming guides as they explain all the toolbox calls and the other various APIs and mnemonics for the OS you will need. I already have the Inside Macintosh I to VI, and some specific one like the QuickDraw one, they proved to be useful, but they are just factual information, there is no "trick" or anything used especially for graphic & game programming.
It's like a book with a ton of good recipe, and one with a Chef that give his own trick with less recipe, but all the tricks that make them good. I know how to cook, but sometimes you may miss just one trick that sublimate all of it! (and honestly considering how old these computer are, I don't want to spend too much time to rediscover things that as already be done by other.. 😀 )
I've bought that book for less than $5 and already found some information in it that will be useful for my projects, so it was worth the price (and there are still some useful information that are still relevant for nowadays development.)
@bdurbrow, thanks to had a look, if it reappear, feel free 🙂
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Posted by: techknight on 2016-08-04 17:21:33
Tricks are created by experience. Good old tricks and of course... shortcuts.
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Posted by: Winterlast on 2016-08-04 17:28:18
As requested: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/tricks-of-the-mac-game-programming-gurus
I look forward to seeing your game projects. 🙂
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Posted by: Godzil on 2016-08-04 17:36:34
Oh! It was on the macintoshgarden?!
I haven't though to look there 🙁
Thanks!
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