Re: FTA's book - hold on a minute!

[stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)]

In article <1993Mar22.113342.9460@bernina.ethz.ch> SHADOW@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH (Horstmann, Andre) writes:
>
>The book is rather old. It was written 89/90 and therefore only reflects
>techniques the FTA used 2-3 years ago. But the graphic and sound parts
>are _very_ impressive (interlace, 3200 pics, fast copying with dp/stack...)

	Jason has a copy of the book, and I looked through it.  It
seems like there could be a lot of good info within it, but it is in
French, and thus hard to read... :)  I suppose the sample source is
sample source, but if you have to figure it out anyway, you might as
well grab the FTA source floating around.

	The thing that may have been interesting is the low level disk
access... but it's really only good if you are writing a demo.
Nowadays, I'd prefer my stuff be launchable from GS/OS...


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