Ah man this brings back memories. I have the book + cdrom sitting here on my bookshelf. I was 14 and just started learning to program with Turbo Pascal and assembler by reading Denthor's Tutorials on how to program Demos. My dad happened to be going on a business trip to the U.S. (we didn't have nice books like that in South Africa) and when he asked what I wanted I said "the Graphics Programming Black Book" not knowing how big and heavy that thing was and he had to lug it around with him.
At the time I didn't understand much of it but I remember the evolution of him optimizing Boyer Moore string search left quite an impact. That and the anecdotes of him working with John Carmack at the time they were coding Quake I. Just browsing through the chapters makes me want to read the whole thing again.
I remember the Denthor tutorials! Downloaded from a BBS, learned the basics of graphics programming... Mode 13h... :) I emailed Denthor once and thanked him (shortly after I got my first job in '96).... I have the Black Book as well, good memories!
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Ah man this brings back memories. I have the book + cdrom sitting here on my bookshelf. I was 14 and just started learning to program with Turbo Pascal and assembler by reading Denthor's Tutorials on how to program Demos. My dad happened to be going on a business trip to the U.S. (we didn't have nice books like that in South Africa) and when he asked what I wanted I said "the Graphics Programming Black Book" not knowing how big and heavy that thing was and he had to lug it around with him.
At the time I didn't understand much of it but I remember the evolution of him optimizing Boyer Moore string search left quite an impact. That and the anecdotes of him working with John Carmack at the time they were coding Quake I. Just browsing through the chapters makes me want to read the whole thing again.
I remember the Denthor tutorials! Downloaded from a BBS, learned the basics of graphics programming... Mode 13h... :) I emailed Denthor once and thanked him (shortly after I got my first job in '96).... I have the Black Book as well, good memories!