Visual Basic 4 Network Gaming Adventure Set: The Best Way to Create Your Own Multiplayer Games with Visual Basic 4 [Paperback]

David Allen (Author)

Book Description

Series: Adventure set | Publication Date: December 15, 1995

Shows you how to develop games that communicate using LANs, the Internet, and modems. Includes hands-on chapters for mastering OLE game servers, Network DDE, Microsoft's Game SDK and DirectPlay, and remote automation. Features a 32-bit high-level communications library you can easily use to create your own games. Shows you how to incorporate amazing graphics, stunning sounds, and great game play action. Includes CD-ROM with VB source code for strategy and action games, and a modular communications library for developing network games. Features AppLink 1.1 (shareware version), the DirectPlay DLL--DPVB Link, and WAVMIX32 and WAVMIX16 DLLs.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Create games for Windows 3. 1 to Windows 95 using this Visual Basic 4 guide, which is the first title demonstrating how to use Microsoft's new DirectPlay game communication system. Owners of the right software and hardware will find this and its accompanying CDROM important keys to building games and using development tools to maximum advantage. Programming experience a must, here. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Paperback: 736 pages
• Publisher: Coriolis Group (December 15, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883577322
• ISBN-13: 978-1883577322
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,325,191 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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