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TheHeadFL · 07-14-2005, 08:42 PM

Honestly, get yourself an ancient DOS C/C++ compiler and get some tutorials on basic mode 13h programming and go to town. Thats how I used to do all my game programming back in the day. Its way too much work trying to learn the basics when you have to use something as obtuse as DirectX or those types of things now. I used to do it all in Borland Turbo C++ 3.0.

If you want to get into the modern stuff, get used to programming in C and start looking into some OpenGL programming. When I was in high school I learned the basics of OpenGL and coded up a little game engine in about a semester with no prior knowledge, so its doable. Try http://nehe.gamedev.net/ for some OpenGL tutorials.

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TheHeadFL Ultra Techie Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 530	Honestly, get yourself an ancient DOS C/C++ compiler and get some tutorials on basic mode 13h programming and go to town. Thats how I used to do all my game programming back in the day. Its way too much work trying to learn the basics when you have to use something as obtuse as DirectX or those types of things now. I used to do it all in Borland Turbo C++ 3.0. If you want to get into the modern stuff, get used to programming in C and start looking into some OpenGL programming. When I was in high school I learned the basics of OpenGL and coded up a little game engine in about a semester with no prior knowledge, so its doable. Try http://nehe.gamedev.net/ for some OpenGL tutorials. __________________ Desktop machine: 2 x Opteron 246, Asus K8N-DL, 2GB PC3200 ECC Reg., XFX GeForce 6600GT, 74gb WD Raptor, 2 x 19\" LCDs, Windows XP x64 Server machine: Intel P4 3.0GHz 2MB EM64T, ECS i865pe, 1GB PC3200, 36gb WD Raptor, Windows Server 2003 Laptop: Dell Inspiron 9100 (Intel P4 3.2GHz 1MB Prescott, i865pe, 512MB PC3200, Mobility Radeon 9700, DVD+R/DL Burner), Windows XP Linux: P3 450Mhz, 386MB ram, Slackware 10.1 (Running mySQL/Apache)