Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!percival!baer
From: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Graphics, sprites, BOB's
Message-ID: <1017@percival.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 87 18:34:22 GMT
References: <4466@ihlpg.ATT.COM> <270@dana.UUCP>
Reply-To: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR.
Lines: 36
Keywords: sprites, bobs

In article <270@dana.UUCP> rap@dana.UUCP (Rob Peck) writes:
>In article <4466@ihlpg.ATT.COM>, 5glit@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Beasley) writes:
>> 
>> I have some questions concerning the amiga programming of sprites, graphics
>> and BOB's. 
>> First:
>> Are there any 'usefull' books that I should read which help me to program
>> spritesgraphics, and BOB's. (In C ofcourse).
>
>In January 87, SYBEX published my Programmers' Guide To The Amiga.
>As of October, they had sold about 8000 copies.  It is still available
>through B Dalton, among other places.  I cover both sprites and bobs
>and give functioning C source examples of each. 
>
>Rob Peck		...ihnp4!hplabs!dana!rap

I was in the same position you are last summer.  I stongly recommend Peck's
book.  It's the BEST!  The first Amiga programming book I got was 'Inside
Amiga Graphics', which I can't recommend.  The source examples were not
well written, and were difficult to understand.  On the other hand, Rob's
examples are very clean, very elegant, and even fun to use.  Also, if you
are looking for good source examples on Fish disks, I've found Leo Schwab's
hacks to be very educational.  You may find a lot of examples of what you
want to do were written in Lattice C rather than Manx.  Leo's examples often
show how to make things work well under Manx.  My advice is get Rob Peck's
book, and print out some of Leo's hacks.  And study them.  If it weren't for
Rob's book and Leo's good Manx examples, I probably wouldn't be a Certified
Developer now.  Thanks guys!
	BTW, Rob, how about some examples of AnimObs, Double Buffering, and
Collision detection with multiple object in your next book!  

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