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Review title: This book is hopelessly out of date and overly simplistic
Product review: This book gives you a lot of code that won't compile under 32 bit Windows, that in theory does everything he talks about, but always cheats ( for example to convert bitmaps to 16 colour, he converts to 8 colour, tags found in TGA are not supported, etc. ), and basically the only good thing about the book is the jokes he makes between the bad code. There are free libraries on the web that do images better than this book can.
