GAMESMITH - a FREEWARE library

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Copyright (c) Jan. 1996 by Alexander J. Russell, and Bruce Miller
ALL rights reserved.

A Freeware game library for Xmode programming under DOS.

Suitable for:

Action games - overhead/side scrolling
     Fast bitmap drawing
RPG's (Role Playing Games)
     and an easy to use, full featured, GUI.

Gamesmith is a library of ASM and Borland C compatible modules in the 
MEDIUM memory model, DOS real mode.

Gamesmith includes powerful utilities to be used by programmers to quickly 
create a wide variety of games. Gamesmith is based on the XLIB xmode 
libraries.

A copy of DPAINT II (trademark of EA)
is also very useful!

Who is GameSmith for?

You know C and want to make real cool games. You know about near and far 
pointers. You are comfortable with pointers and structs. You know how to use
LIBS, and how to LINK C programs. You don't need to know any Assembler.

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GameSmith Features!

 * Xmode, your choice of various resolutions.
 * Visual GUI editor
 * Visual Animation Engine Editor
 * Visual TileMap Editor
 * Automatic erase rect handling 
 * Timer tweaking
 * Page flipping
 * Full set of graphics primatives. 
     (blit, line, rect, circle, etc...)
 * Colour cycling support, simple fades
 * Palette grabbing tools
 * Tools to convert LBM (dpaint), and PCX art 
    to various FAST formats.
 * Generic Data Library maker
 * Debugging support
 * XMS access via easy to use functions
   similar to file i/o functions
 * Fast bitmap scaling

OTHER FEATURES
 * Interrupt driven Mouse I/O
 * Joy Stick support
 * Complete keyboard handler
   multiple key presses
 * ALL Input goes into one easy to handle event queue
 * Debugging support
 * Script language to make simple intro screens

 * Completely Missing! (and not coming soon)
    * Sound
    * Doom-ish type stuff

Freeware version:
 All include files
 Library, Debug version (meaning all debugging tools are enabled)
   Borland C++ 3.1 compatible
 Demo exe's and source code
 All tools/utils exe's

 Nothing is crippled.
 No time Limits
 No Royalties

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Unzipping gmsmth01.zip after you download it:

Create a directory to install Gamesmith to.
copy gmsmth01.zip there.
Unzip it with the -d parm:
        pkunzip -d gmsmth01.zip

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And if you want the complete source code:
 Full source code in C and ASM

 cost: $100.00 Canadian.

 Order by emailing

 Internet email: alexad3@iceonline.com

Please READ GAMESMTH.DOC
