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- RUSSELL D. HOFFMAN, OWNER AND CHIEF PROGRAMMER, THE
- ANIMATED SOFTWARE CO.
- P.O. Box 188006
- Carlsbad, CA 92009
- Phone:(800) 551-2726
- or:(619) 720-7261
- America Online:RUSSELL DH
- CompuServe:70743,1226
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- Suggested Readings for people who like P11:
-
- The following books have been particularly helpful to
- the author, and he recommends them to anyone who wants to
- increase their knowledge of the particular areas covered:
-
- ANIMALS IN MOTION and THE HUMAN FIGURE IN MOTION,
- Eadweard Muybridge, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, NY.
- The original and still the best. In the late 1800's Mr.
- Muybridge took carefully timed photographs of animals and
- people showing a wide variety of activity. These two books
- contain hundreds of his sequences, many of which have been
- used for the demos that accompany this program, and are the
- basis for the horse animation on the right-hand edge of this
- reference.
- THE ANIMATORS WORKBOOK, Tony White, Watson-Guptill
- Publications, New York, NY, 1986. This book shows important
- techniques for drawing animated cartoon figures, for making
- motion look real, and so on. Not computer-oriented, it is an
- invaluable aid to any animator.
- CHUCK AMUCK, Chuck Jones, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1989.
- One of the original directors of Warner Brothers cartoons.
- Need I say more? Great book.
- THAT'S NOT ALL, FOLKS!, Mel Blanc, Warner Books, 1988.
- The late Mel Blanc was the voice for Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig,
- and other Warner Brothers cartoon characters. This book
- offers insight into many aspects of cartoon creation. If
- only it came with a sound disk!
- APPLIED CONCEPTS IN MICROCOMPUTER GRAPHICS, Bruce A.
- Artwick, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Mr.
- Artwick is the original author of FLIGHT SIMULATOR which
- should be enough to convince anyone that he knows what he's
- doing! A very readable and fact-filled book covering many
- topics in computer graphics, giving algorithms,
- considerations, and so forth.
- IBM PC & XT ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE / A GUIDE FOR
- PROGRAMMERS, Leo J. Scanlon, Brady Communications Company,
- Inc. New York, NY, 1985. Of all the books on Assembler
- programming techniques that the author read to learn how to
- control the PC, this one was by far the best.
- PC INTERN, Michael Tischer, Abacus. Grand Rapids, MI.,
- 1992. Over 1000 pages that really contain over 1000+ pages
- of technical information. A truly wonderful book,
-
-
- Other useful and recommended books, in no particular
- order:
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- PROGRAMMER'S GUIDE TO PC & PS/2 VIDEO SYSTEMS, Richard
- Wilton, Microsoft Press, 1987.
- PROGRAMMER'S GUIDE TO THE EGA AND VGA CARDS, Richard F.
- Ferraro, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1988.
- PROGRAMMER'S GUIDE TO THE EGA/VGA, George Sutty and
- Steve Blair, Brady Books, 1988.
- ADVANCED MS-DOS, Ray Duncan, Microsoft Press, 1986.
- ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE SUBROUTINES FOR MS-DOS COMPUTERS, Leo
- J. Scanlon, Tab Books, Inc., Blue Ridge Summit, PA, 1986.
- ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING FOR THE IBM PERSONAL
- COMPUTER, David J. Bradley, Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood
- Cliffs, NJ, 1984.
- ASSEMBLER FOR THE IBM PC AND PC-XT, Peter Abel, Reston
- Publishing Company, Inc., Reston, VA, 1984.
- ADVANCED ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE ON THE IBM-PC, Steven
- Holzner,Brady Books, NY, 1987.
- iAPX 86/88, 186/188 USER'S MANUAL, PROGRAMMER'S
- REFERENCE, Intel Corporation, 1986.
- BLUEBOOK OF ASSEMBLY ROUTINES FOR THE IBM-PC & XT,
- Christopher L. Morgan, The Waite Group, NY, 1984.
- FUNDAMENTALS OF IBM PC ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE, Al Schneider,
- Tab Books, Inc, Blue Ridge Summit, PA, 1984.
- THE IBM PC-DOS HANDBOOK, Richard Allen King, Sybex,
- Berkeley, CA, 1983.
- PROGRAMMER'S PROBLEM SOLVER FOR THE IBM PC, XT & AT,
- Robert Jourdain, Brady Books, 1986.
- THE PETER NORTON PROGRAMMER'S GUIDE TO THE IBM PC,
- Peter Norton, Microsoft Press, Bellevue, WA, 1985.
- INSIDE THE IBM PC, Peter Norton, Robert J. Brady Co.,
- Bowie, MD, 1983.
- SYSTEM BIOS FOR IBM PC/XT/AT COMPUTERS AND COMPATIBLES,
- Phoenix Technical Reference Series, Addison Wesley
- Publishing Company, Inc., 1989.
- THE IBM-PC FROM THE INSIDE OUT, Murray Sargent III and
- Richard L. Shoemaker, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company,
- Inc., 1986.
- COMPUTE!'s Mapping the IBM-PC and PCjr, Russ Davies,
- COMPUTE! Publications, Inc., Greensboro, NC, 1985.
- MS-DOS (VERSIONS 1.0 - 3.2) TECHNICAL REFERENCE
- ENCYCLOPEDIA, Microsoft Reference Library, Redmond, WA,
- 1986.
- EGA/VGA, A PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE GUIDE, Bradley Dyck
- Kliewer, McGraw Hill, New York, NY, 1990.
- DOS 5: A DEVELOPERS GUIDE, Al Williams, M & T Books,
- Redwood City, CA, 1991.
- BIT-MAPPED GRAPHICS, Steve Rimmer, Windcrest (McGraw-
- Hill), Blue Ridge Summit, PA, 1990.
- THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO MS-DOS 5.0, Creative Business
- Communications, Spring Valley, NY, 1991
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- Equipment Used to Create P11:
-
- The following products are used to create and maintain
- the program and it's documentation, or just to keep things
- running smoothly at P11 ENTERPRISES. All have worked
- reliably, efficiently and effectively and are recommended.
- Most of these names are trademarked by the companies
- mentioned:
-
- Source code is written entirely in Assembler for speed
- and compactness. It is compiled and linked together using
- MICROSOFT's MACRO ASSEMBLER (MASM) version 6.
- Our current development operating system is IBM's DOS
- version 4.01.
- Source code is edited using BRIEF version 2, from
- SOLUTION SYSTEMS, South Weymouth, MA. Nothing I've seen
- comes close.
- The manual was created with MICROSOFT WORD version 5.
- Special thanks to HEWLETT-PACKARD for making good
- equipment and for aiding this developer.
- Press releases, brochures and newsletters are created
- with GEOWORKS ENSEMBLE from GEOWORKS, Berkeley, CA.
- We keep our hard disk clean and happy and convert
- bitmapped fonts to bitplane fonts with THE NORTON UTILITIES
- ADVANCED EDITON version 4.5 from PETER NORTON COMPUTING,
- INC., Santa Monica, CA.
- We keep RAM use by other programs to a minimum with
- QUARTERDECK EXPANDED MEMORY MANAGER 386 from QUARTERDECK
- OFFICE SYSTEMS, Santa Monica, CA.
- A GLARE/GUARD PROFESSIONAL, with VLF/ELF radiation
- protection, from OPTICAL COATING LABORATORY, INC. Santa
- Rosa, CA protects our eyes from eyestrain and possible more
- serious radiation hazards which may be lurking in our
- monitors. Highly recommended.
- We use a BUFFALO MEMORY MANAGER board for EMM on our XT
- system. It also has a TECMAR 16-color ECGA graphics board
- and a TANDY color monitor.
- On CGA machines we use and like FLICKERFREE, a screen
- enhancement program (for text mode) from GIBSON RESEARCH
- CORP., Laguna Hills, California.
- We use a SUMMAGRAPHICS 1201-A DIGITIZER, from
- SUMMAGRAPHICS, Seymour, CT for most graphics tasks.
- On Hercules systems we use SOFTGRAF from THE AUTOSCRIBE
- CORPORATION, Rockville, MD to run in CGA-emulation mode.
- We get online with America Online using GEOWORKS
- ENSEMBLE and highly recommend that you do too!
- Our mouse is a Microsoft unit.
- Our joystick is by CH PRODUCTS, San Marcos, CA.
- We compress our disk files with a registered copy of
- PKZIP from PKWARE.
-