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From: 298yly@tay.ac.uk ((Alan) Yep Luen Yuen)
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Subject: Re: About as cool as cool can be....
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:43:35 GMT
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On Thu, 26 Nov 1998 01:36:39 +0000, James Tait
<JTait@wyrddreams.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Craig Graham wrote:
>
>> I wrote my first game in assembler on the 68000 when I was 13 (C7, on the
>> atari).
>
>   I started writing games and demos in 68k assembly on the ST at the age
>of 12.  I was involved with Exorcist of the Flatliners and X-Tacy (or
>XTC or X-tatic or however many other names along the same theme they went
>under) and was called The Tithead (I know - not a word, ok?) and also
>did a couple of not-especially-widely-released bits as Falcon of Eclipse.

you did ? why you not a guru yet?

>  A lot of the "megademo" code was widely available (border removal,
>palette-switching, etc) and I had a certain amount of help from the
>Bullfrog tutorial series in ST Format.  Never got on with 3d stuff
>though,
>until I got hold of a couple of trig functions from a maths textbook and
>wrote a simple 3d-demo for the Archimedes in Acorn BASIC.  These days
>I'm
>struggling with 3d on the Yaroze cos someone moved the goalposts and
>brought matrices into it. *8OP

hey man, matrix are gods gift for 3d. loads of fancy things that can
be done in matrixs. 
well have fun.


(Alan) Yep Luen Yuen
~alanyuen
email: 298yly@tay.ac.uk