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Title: Pretty Bad
Review: Sorry to say but this book is pretty bad, the fragmented code while saves space is not very comprehensible. I was looking for a style like Charles Petzold's book but was disappointed, the sample code on the cd makes up a bit but I have a specific problem with the code on the cd. Some samples actually crashed my machine(Blitz) and Surface did nothing, then I looked at the code while the authors had code to see whether the user had a 16-bit RGB enabled gfx card, they messed that up by setting the mode to 32-bits with the call to SetDisplayMode, so if you have a gfx card that only supports 24-bits the program either does nothing or crashes, why the authors assumed that everyone had a 32-bit gfx card I have no idea to make the programs work change the argument of SetDisplayMode from 32 to 24 and it should work. After reading this book I should email Charles Petzold and beg him to write a book on DirectX.
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