Elysian Shadows

Here you go:
'Doom' 3D Engine techniques. This explains it briefly.

This one is mentioned in the other link as having a much more detailed explanation of raycasters.
acksrc.zip

jaymonster138 wrote:What exactly is a "Raycaster"?

Ray Casting

Games that used it: Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, lots of others too.

Example of a very small ray caster in C with Allegro.

I'm playing around with Lua (in C++) a little bit finally, and writing a basic text adventure with it. Anyways, I want to separate different things like the map table and functions from the item table and functions, but I can't really find anything on how to have multiple scripts open. Or am I over...

I'm sure a lot of people have already seen this, but I still find it amazing every time I see it.

Do you mean something like this? This might also be really helpful to you:
Lecture 6: Solving Problems - Richard Buckland UNSW 2008

To make a level editor you need:

1) access to the screen to display things
2) access to the disk to read and write files
3) some input from the keyboard or mouse

You could make a level editor all in text. It really doesn't matter too much what language you use to write your level editor.

Not sure if it's good, but it's certainly free: Windows Movie Maker 2.1

In addition to what you already have, this also has good advice.
This one is even better.

You want to do something like this: bool Map::saveMap(char *filename) { ofstream savefile(filename); if (!savefile.is_open()) { cout << "Error opening map file!\n"; return false; } savefile << map_w; // map width savefile << " "; savefile << map_h; // map height savefile << "...

It sounds like you might be trying to solve the wrong problem. Using an ofstream should be completely independent from DirectX.
What are you trying to do exactly?

The main reason I want to learn assemble is because Direct X encrypts output variables saved to files in assembly. DirectX comes with a tool to tell you what it's thinking as it is running. Not really sure if it's what you need. Here is a professional's experience with it. This is a link to the MSD...

davidthefat wrote:The error is that ifstream is undeclared, it should work but no, the compiler is choosing to be gay...

ifstream lives in the std namespace.

http://benfry.com/distellamap/

Found this while reading about developing on old consoles.

For anyone interested here is the guide for programming on the Atari 2600: Stella Programmer's Guide

Adventure disassembled and well commented: http://www.io.com/~nickb/atari/doc/adventur.txt

http://code.google.com/p/snes-sdk/

yeah its quite impressive. i wouldn't be surprised tho if all it was is an actual 3d demo that was just converted to ascii art. I'm pretty sure it is, there are textures in the folder that come with it. It's still a pretty good conversion and rendering engine though. Yes, he is just converting it t...