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Animation, games, and sound for the ibm pc

— Fabbri, Tony - Nama Orang;

While many books deal with computers, hardly any are just plain fun to read and use. This book does not explain the insides of computers or describe all possible ways to assemble and use them. Rather, it lets the reader do exciting things with the computer and see things happen on the screen. It asumes no prior knowledge of computers or programming. The reader will learn computers and have fun doing so. After introducing a few fundamentals (into each life, some rain must fall), the book slowly leads the beginner through drawing faces, rockets, tanks, ships, spacecraft, and monsters. Then sound is added, and the pictures come alive. Spaceships, airplanes, tanks, and strange creatures make noises as they move, turn, fire, blink, and attack. We then introduce the idea of controlling the action from the keyboard. The reader now is able to create his or her own arcade games. All discussions and early programs are short. The reader will find it easy to use the examples to create new games and practical applications as well. The programming skills that the reader will learn gradually are the very ones he or she will need to solve business, educational, engineering, management, and scientific problems. This particular version of the book employs the popular IBM Personal Computer (PC). It assumes that you have at least a 32K system with at least one disk drive. Although some programs use a printer, it is not essential. No special graphics equipment is neces- sary, since we draw all pictures with ordinary PRINT statements, a technique called text graphics. The reader can enter any program and watch the action unfold on the screen. Please note that selected programs in Chapters 18 and 19 were designed for use on an IBM monochromatic screen and may not work exactly as written on non-IBM equip-ment.

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