‘Pangea Software’s Ultimate Game Programming Guide for Mac OS X’ now free
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jan 9, 2008 at 11:21am
Pangea Software has begun offering the programming book, Pangea Software’s Ultimate Game Programming Guide for Mac OS X for free. Previously, it costs US$49.95.
The book is penned by Brian Greenstone, the developer who programmed Nanosaur, Bugdom, Cro-Mag Rally, Enigmo, Otto Matic and other games. It covers such topics as the Mac HID Manager, OpenGL, OpenAL, Core Graphics, Rendezvous, QuickTime, writing a plug-in for Maya, doing stereo 3D rendering, networking, AltiVec optimizations, and how to copy-protect games. A companion CD contains Xcode sample projects including a fully functional Maya file exporter, networking code, Vertex Array Range acceleration, threading and a more.
The “Macsimum MWSF 2007 Coupon Book” is available for download. You can find it here and print it as a PDF. It has discounts, special offers and promotions in conjunction with the upcoming Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
