Okay, the Warp3D Nova tutorials book is finally done. I’ve done the final edits, and it’s available now for you to buy. I’ve decided to go for the extra expense of full-colour on the print book. I know it’s more expensive, I think that the colour syntax highlighting makes the code easier to understand. So, […]
A few years ago I wrote a bunch of tutorials for Warp3D Nova with the intent of helping other people learn how to use it. This was back when it was first introduced. Anyway since then those tutorials have kind of gotten lost on myblog, kind of buried. So, at Jamie’s suggestion (thanks Jamie), I’ve […]
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The Modern Graphics Programming Primer book and its accompanying tutorials have been re-released in both Kindle and print formats. I’ve done this hoping that I can reach more people this way. Amazon have hundreds of millions of customers searching their site, and some people just prefer to read physical paper copies. You can get the […]
Our hometown Wellington is having its anniversary this coming weekend (well, Jan 22, actually, but we turn it into a long weekend), and we’re celebrating by giving you a 33% discount on the e-book “Modern Graphics Programming Primer.” This deliberately short e-book is well worth getting if you want to learn how to write graphics/games […]
NOTE: This video was released to the laptop mailing list two weeks ago (16 July 2018). You can get the
The results are in for this year’s AmigaOS graphics card survey and they’re quite interesting. For starters, 467 people contributed this year vs 348 in 2017. That’s a 34% jump. Maybe the community is growing…What are people using as their main graphics card? There are two clear trends:People are slowly migrating toward newer cards. Use […]
If you’ve been following the AmigaOS world then you’ll no doubt have heard of the upcoming A1222 (codenamed Tabor). It’s a nice little board; one that I’m planning to build a laptop out of. Anyway, the P1022 CPU on-board has a peculiarity: it’s got a Stream Processing Engine (SPE) for floating-point calculations that’s incompatible with […]
A brand new game that takes full advantage of Warp3D Nova has just been released by the AmiBoing/Entwickler-X team. Called Spencer, it’s a classic Jump’n run platform game with a bright and colourful cartoon 2.5D style.From a technical standpoint, its graphics are rendered in 3D with shaders providing advanced per-pixel 3D lighting. Having put a […]
ERROR If you’re signed up to the DIY mailing list, then you’ll already have seen this. Otherwise, the video above is a quick update on the DIY laptop project.Quick SummaryThe battery holder has been completely redesigned It has PTC fuses on all battery balancing cables (in addition to the one on the main circuit), so […]
