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Black Art of Macintosh Game Programming is the essential reference for anyone who wants to program 3D games on a Macintosh. It provides complete, step-by-step instructions for creating a fully-functional 3D maze game and a 3D flight simulator on the Macintosh. - Covers free-form texture mapping, menus, event loops, fixed-point arithmetic, optimizing game-specific code for the Power PC, and more

- CD-ROM includes a fully-functional 3D maze game and a 3D flight simulator in both Symantec C and CodeWarrior environments

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Very disappointed, February 9, 1999 By A Customer I purchased this book in hope that I could learn 3d game programming. What I learned is that none of the source code compiles under Any version of Codewarrior, Think C or any other C compiler. The book itself did not explain things well and the 3D flight simulator crashed my computer. I own about seven game programming books and this one ranks last.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   Ideal for beginners !, August 4, 1998 By  Geert.Poels@village.uunet.be (Belgium, Europe) - See all my reviews The book briefly describes some Mac essentials. Covers quite some aspects of games programming : sprites & graphics, ... . However if one is really looking for an in-depth book covering Quickdraw or OpenGl-tricks for games, this isn't the book.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   2 of 3 people found the following review helpful: Think twice before you buy this one..., July 12, 1999 By A Customer Game programming gurus was an interesting book. I am an average programmer and trying to use this book for a tutorial didn't work real well. I wanted to make a game like Unreal or F/A-18 Hornet 3.0, or at least start with a poor version that I could improve over time and optimize. I installed the files from the CD and they didn't compile (the triangle drawing one did though, kind of ironic). I wanted to use this tool to speed ahead in a programming career, but I crashed and burned. Now I have to wait for a newer age programming book to go on the market. This book is the start to a good work, but overall I'd advise you not to buy it.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) Share your thoughts with other customers: