Programming Links

  • gamedev is another excellent game development site. Quite a bit bigger than flipcode, maybe a bit too big for its own good.
  • Whole Tomato Software produce the excellent Visual Assist line of products. If you use Microsoft Visual Studio, then you need VisualAssist. I'm telling you... you need it. It's not optional!
  • Wotsit's has information on just about every file format you can think of.
  • Programmers' Heaven is a positively a huge site containing thousands of links to other programming resources.
  • Programmers Lair also has many good links to other programming related sites.
  • RageStorm is being run by an Israeli team, which are friends of mine. You'll find some good tutorials on their site as well as some code snippets for Win32/DOS/ASM, games and some other resources.
  • flipCode was my favourite game development site. There used to be an image of the day, a lot of articles and tutorials and some good message boards. Unfortunately, the site has deteriorated over the past two years and has now been shut down. R.I.P. flipCode.

Cool people

  • Folkert van Heusden is one of the smartest people I know. He has lots of interesting pet projects and did some great tools for *nix, Windows and other platforms.
  • Michael Frayn has an unusual sense of humour as well as a rather odd site. It's pretty interesting, though.
  • Avery Lee has made VirtualDub, my video editing software of choice. Not only did Avery create this excellent program, he also made it available for free!
  • Al Lowe is the creator of the infamous Leisure Suit Larry. Al shares some of his great sense of humour with us on his website. While you're there, sign up for the CyberJoke3000 mailing list. It cracks me up every day.
  • Wil Wheaton played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Although some people weren't too fond of Wesley, there's no arguing that the actor is a cool guy. Check out his website to know what I mean.

Cool games

  • Brad Port has created a faithful reproduction of Capcom's addictive puzzle game, Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo. It uses my MIDI routines and I find it quite good indeed.
  • Tierra is a group of anonymous game developers dedicated to keep the old Sierra adventure games alive. Sierra seem to have abandoned the adventure game genre, so Tierra have stepped in. Their remake of King's Quest I is downright excellent!

Old, but still interesting

  • PC Game Programmer's Encyclopedia is a collection of text files dealing with just about every aspect of game programming for DOS. The follow-up, the Win95 Games Programmer's Encyclopedia has never been (and never will be) completed, but there are still some pretty good articles in it.
  • SWAG archives are a compilation of a lot of Pascal source code conveniently categorized. Hasn't been updated in over 6 years, but if you do Pascal programming, you'll find some gems here.