Brennan's DJGPP2+Games Resources

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Ive added Brennans DJGPP page to my site temporarily until he gets his site sorted, its abt 2 years old and has many lost pics and links. Any surgestions or usefull links? then Email me and no questions abt this stuff please, try comp.os.msdos.djgpp instead.

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Last modified: Nov 05 1997

Table of Contents
DJGPP Online Documentation Programming Environments Graphics Sound	Performance Programming Networking/Communication Input Misc/Tools Other Games Stuff Things Done w/DJGPP

What is DJGPP?

DJGPP

Who created/worked on DJGPP?

DJ Delorie

Why do I want DJGPP?

32-bit protected-mode code
flat memory addressing (no more segments)
fast generated code (on a par w/Watcom)
up to 256 MB addressable memory with automatic usage of swap under DOS
it's FREE!
it rules!

How do I get it?

one of these sites

Getting

Filename	Req'd for C	Req'd for C++	Why you want it
readme.1st	Yes	Yes	Intro file
unzip386.exe	No	No	Free PKUNZIP(tm) clone
csdpmi3b.zip	Yes	Yes	Free DPMI provider
bnu27b.zip	Yes	Yes	binary utils like the linker, assembler, etc.
djdev201.zip	Yes	Yes	DJGPP development kit
faq202b.zip	No	No	Not required, but you want this!
gcc2721b.zip	Yes	Yes	GCC itself
gdb416b.zip	No	No	GNU debug. More powerful than FSDB which comes with djdev
gpp2721b.zip	No	Yes	C++ version of GCC
lgp271b.zip	No	Yes	C++ libraries
mak375b.zip	Yes	Yes	GNU make (Borland make will not work)
txi390b.zip	No	No	The help system (You really want this!)
mlp105b.zip	No	No	Executable packer, like pklite. (Not part of offical dist)

Installing

cd \
mkdir djgpp
cd \djgpp

pkunzip

pkunzip -d *.zip

unzip *.zip

set djgpp=c:/djgpp/djgpp.env

Then you need to add C:\DJGPP\BIN (or whatever path you chose) to your PATH in AUTOEXEC.BAT. Put it before any other path entry that might have "make" in it.

PATH=C:\DOS;C:\BIN;C:\TC\BIN

PATH=C:\DOS;C:\BIN;C:\DJGPP\BIN;C:\TC\BIN

Ok, you convinced me. I downloaded it. I installed it. Now what?

The current sum of DJGPP knowledge
The FAQ djgppfaq.html	Eli Zaretskii	This'll answer most any initial question you have about DJGPP, from installing it to accessing the various nifty features. As Eli put it once, it's more of an All Asked Questions list than Frequently Asked Questions. *READ THIS.*
	FAQ
The Lexicon	DJ Delorie	Confused by any of the terms in the FAQ or this site? Look 'em up in the Lexicon.
	Lexicon

Now that you've digested the FAQ, you might be hankering after a programming environment:
RHIDE	Robert Höhne	DJGPP-specific IDE. Modeled after the Turbo C++ IDE. Yow! Now version 1.3!
	home page
vi/vim and make		Just like in UNIX. (Try "`:set compatible`")
	home page

Graphics make the world go 'round
"How to access the VGA"	Brennan Underwood	Short-and-sweet/quick-and-dirty tut of how to access the VGA under DJGPP. Now with palette getting/setting code.
	4k
VBE.ZIP	Charles Sandmann	Some example source of how to get at VBE 2.0 linear framebuffers, with both near and far pointers.
	2k
VESA VBE specs (From SciTechSoft)	vesa12.zip	Official spec for VESA VBE 1.2
	15k
	vbe20.zip	Unofficial spec on VESA VBE 2.0
	19k
	vbe20-11.exe	The official 2.0 spec (Replica viewer for Windows)
	553k
JLIB 1.7	Jon Griffiths	JLIB is a graphics library that allows cross-development between DJGPP, Linux svgalib, and X-Windows. Newly version 1.7!
	470k
Allegro 2.2	Shawn Hargreaves	This is an all-in-one DJGPP programming platform. SVGA support, SB/SB16/SBPro support, GUI, compression routines, a virtual timer, FLI/FLC player, more. 2.2 has the additional features of 3d graphics routines, more Modex drivers, and bugfixes. Rejoice!
	570k home page
WinAlleg	Dominique Biesmans	A port of Allegro to Win32/DirectX. Neat!
	home page
Xlib 2.5	Paul Fenwick	This is a Mode-X library based on the original real-mode Xlib.
	126k
svgalib	Mihai Cartoaje	This is a beta port of Linux's svgalib to DOS/DJGPP.
	home page
Span renderer	Brian Kelley	A port of Michael Abrash's DDJ span renderer to Allegro.
	home page
PLUSH	Justin Frankel	A portable 3d engine with all kindsa nifty effects. Free for noncommercial use.
	home page
HiRender	HiRise Software	A 3d graphics library. In betatest.
	home page
VPE	Ported by Phil Frisbie	An enhanced DOOM lib. Free for noncommercial use.
	home page

And you gotta have rockin' sound!
MikMod 2.09bd	Ported by Justin Frankel	Suppports GUS and SB. Plays every kind of MOD format I have ever heard of and then some. (Including .XM) Does interpolation to whatever mixing rate you choose with 8 or 16-bit output. Shareware.
	151k
SB05_DJ2	Joel Hunter	MODplayer/WAVplayer. Only took 1.5% CPU on my DX4-100 with 4-channel MOD playing (according to the demo) Based on VAT, originally. (This one's a bit easier to make go than MikMod.)
	261k
BCD v1.2	Brennan Underwood	CD-ROM audio playing library. Swapware. Now v1.2. Works now! ;)
	6k
Game Music System	Roland Acton	FM music tracker/player
	home page
MIDAS	Petteri Kangaslampi	Complete audio system. Plays .XM's, S3M's, and .MOD's in addition to your own sound channels.
	home page
Allegro	See above.

For those of us with turbocharged souls.
Brennan's Guide to Inline Assembly with DJGPP2.	Brennan Underwood	The power to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of extended asm.
	15k
Optimizations w/djgpp2	Brennan Underwood	A little page I put together of tips & tricks for getting gcc to optimize your code well.
	6k
fixed.h	Brennan Underwood	Fixed point multiplication and division from Zen Of Graphics Programming w/o rounding in GCC i386 inline assembly.
	1k
FASTFLOT.ZIP	Brennan Underwood	Fast inline fsqrt approximation and a fast float->int converter.
	3k
NASM	Various authors	The Netwide ASseMbler. Can output COFF object files if you're too wussy to learn AT&T style. Free. Also does MMX.
	home page
PGCC	Pentium Compiler Group	An experimental Pentium version of gcc 2.8.0. Alpha
	home page


JONIPX	John R. McCawley III	IPX interfacing routines (Thanks to Phil Frisbie for resupplying this file. Everyone mail him and tell him how cool he is.)
	10k
TCPLIB	Erick Engelke	Untested. Let me know if you get it to work. Based on WATTCP.
	143k
WSOCK	markiv@rangenet.com	Lets DJGPP programs communicate through a running WinSock under Win3.11 and Win95.
	143k
DZComm	Dim Zegebart	Serial communications library add-on for Allegro.
	home page

I suppose the player will want a say on what goes on in the game as well..
libkb 1.01	Markus Oberhumer	A free, low-level keyboard lib. Detects multiple keypresses, shift, control, even the pause key.
	260k
GrIPDJ	ported by Adrian Lopez	An unofficial port of the GrIP API. The demo definitely works on my GamePad Pro.
	130k

Into every list a little disorganization must fall...
WinInfo	Aanigo Soft. Prod.	A Win95/NT Info file browser. Beta.
	home page
Sample Interrupt Handlers		ZIP of 2 DJASM files, one for mouse, one for keyboard.
	260k
GCCFAQ10	Stu Hull	Sample code and a FAQ file for djgpp v1. Might still be useful.
	12k
comp.os.msdos.djgpp	comp.os.msdos.djgpp	I recommend you read this newsgroup religiously.
JPTUI	Jean-Pierre Delprat	Object-oriented textual user interface
	home page
textwin	Scott Beasley	Very simple text windowing lib. Public domain. Recently updated.
	2k
Mournblade's DIY	Graham Reeds/Mournblade	How Mournblade Does Things. A 59k ZIP of text files.
	59k

Not necessarily DJGPP-oriented
x2ftp.oulu.fi	This is the game programming site on the Internet. They also have a DJGPP-specific section.
My programming page	With bonus links.
The PC Games Programmer's Encyclopædia in HTML	Highly recommended.
JUMBO	Some stuff here.
rec.games.programmer	The main games programming newsgroup on Usenet. Read this, but less than religiously. And here's where to find the FAQ for it. Lots of other good stuff there too.
game programming site
C and C++ programming	Games stuff, too.
Mountain Dew	Should be self-explanatory.
Amit's Game programming page	Tile-based, OS/2 info
Floating Point's Game Developer's Resource List	Big list of links.
Art of Assembly Language	Randy Hyde at U of Cal RIverside has an entire ASM book online.
The One Stop C Programming Shop	A C purist.
Ben Crowder's Game Programming Page	Might have good stuff, the ads bugged me.
Phil Frisbie's Programming Page	Has a DJGPP port of Threedom, a free portable 3d engine, plus VPE for DJGPP as listed above.
Programmer's Heaven	All kinds of programming info.

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If you have questions not answered here (and I'm sure they're multitudinous) you can mail 'em to me and I'll try to help, or at least sympathize. I do get about 50 emails a day, so another good place to ask for help is comp.os.msdos.djgpp.

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