Inside Directx (Microsoft Programming Series)

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by Bradley Bargen, Terence Peter Donnelly

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• The Awesome Power of Direct3D/DirectX - The DirectX 5 version; Peter J. Kovach
• High Performance Windows Graphics Programming; Stan Trujillo
• DirectX, RDX, RSX, and MMX Techonolgy: A Jumpstart Guide to High Performance APIs; Rohan Coelho, Maher Hawash
• Windows Game Programming for Dummies (For Dummies); Andre Lamothe

Bargen and Donnelly walk beginners through the features of DirectX, beginning with its underlying COM architecture and basic concepts for all DirectX programmers, such as surfaces, double-buffering, and "blting" (or copying) graphics. The rest of the book explores the fundamentals of programming with the various aspects of DirectX. These include DirectDraw (for 2-D graphics), DirectSound (for sound), DirectPlay (for multiplayer gaming) and DirectInput (for mouse and joystick input). Also included are the basics of Internet gaming. Direct3D, the part of DirectX that handles 3-D rendering, is wisely omitted here in the interest of simplicity.

The samples in the text are small and manageable enough for any experienced C programmer to handle; the accompanying CD includes a copy of DirectX 5.2. DirectX has a well-deserved reputation for being tricky, but Inside DirectX has all you need to get started on writing games and other high-performance multimedia applications. --Richard Dragan

Synopsis
Take command of DirectX programming features with direct-from-the-source guidance. Written and thoroughly reviewed by members of the DirectX team, this title contains a wealth of previously unpublished information. The CD-ROM contains source code examples and the DirectX Software Development Kit (SDK).

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