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RickV
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Posted: 1st Oct 2008 09:59
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Hi,

October 2008 issue #69 is now available;

http://www.thegamecreators.com/data/newsletter/newsletter_issue_69.html

Enjoy!

Rick

Financial Director
TGC Team
[Check out Jed McKenna - http://www.wisefoolpress.com/]
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Dared1111
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Congrats Dark Coder on yet another won competition.

Oh.... and errrr.....first.... he he

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Veron
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Congratulations to all the winners! Dammit Carlos... winning all these competitions!
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Mnemonix
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Congratulations to all the winners!
Convention talks sound great too and as for update 7, I cannot wait

TheSturgeon(playing me at chess) : I will use my powers of the horse and pwnzor you.
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Satchmo
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Hehehe..69..hehe

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Dared1111
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Dirty mind Satchmo...

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Inspire
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Posted: 1st Oct 2008 22:42
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I was wondering who the first to say it would be.
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Jesusaurisrex
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2008 06:25
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Lol, you beat me to it

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General Reed
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Great newsletter. Someone who is going to the convention should ask for MULTIPLE RENDER TARGETS in update 7. This would GREATLY increace the speed at which most shaders are rendered, creating a lot less gap in performance between dbp and something like source.

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Radek Inkom
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Lee's Tip of the Month don't work on my DBPro 7.0

set current bitmap -1 is a problem
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flickenmaste
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Quote: "Hehehe..69..hehe"







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Tom J
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Nice issue, Leadwerks looking very good as usual - motivates me to work on Leadwerks a bit more

@ the 69 discussion pioneers, you naughty naughty people.
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Ian G
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2008 23:17
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I had the same problem as Radek did with Set Current Bitmap -1 is it just not working in the beta releases?
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flickenmaste
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Quote: "@ the 69 discussion pioneers, you naughty naughty people."






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Jeku
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Posted: 4th Oct 2008 07:45
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@flickenmaste - Do you have to bump threads with smilies? I've seen you do it at least half a dozen times recently.

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About the newsletter, one thing I've noticed is the announcement of DarkDGK.NET as if it's a new product. Is there something I'm missing or is it being rebranded?


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kBessa
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Quote: "About the newsletter, one thing I've noticed is the announcement of DarkDGK.NET as if it's a new product. Is there something I'm missing or is it being rebranded?"


Rebranded? Why do you think that?

I think they made the announcement that way because of the anxious people on the DarkGDK forum.

The only difference in the .NET version is the built-in OOP classes, compared to DBPro and DarkGDK (C++), which is kind of a big change (as people have no need to worry about tracking IDs and VS's intelisense helps a lot remembering us the methods from a specific object), although you can still use it like DBPro, calling methods and specifying IDs.

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Jeku
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Posted: 4th Oct 2008 23:01
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But I thought Dark GDK.NET was already released years ago? I'm pretty sure I bought it


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kBessa
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Posted: 4th Oct 2008 23:56
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Quote: "But I thought Dark GDK.NET was already released years ago? I'm pretty sure I bought it "


Oh, it's because it hasn't been available for almost an year now, only to those who already bought it before DarkGDK was released for free.

This was because of TGC and MS agreement to distribute it for free, so Apex has been making it better and easier to use to try to attract more people to use it.

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sindore
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Posted: 5th Oct 2008 01:16
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yer I can`t see it speeding up thing any time soon like this.

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flickenmaste
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Ok ill stop jeku...


and nice newsletter guys!


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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 12th Oct 2008 23:12
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Umm...69? Why is that questionable....?

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Veron
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Posted: 13th Oct 2008 10:08
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Ask your parents.
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Quote: "Umm...69? Why is that questionable....?"
Quote: "Ask your parents. "

Rotfle!

Make games, not war.

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Alucard94
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Posted: 13th Oct 2008 18:11
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Quote: "Ask your parents.
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I'd be surprised if they actually said something about it.


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Yodaman Jer
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I have a better idea....I'll forget about it now, wait ten years, and then see if I know what it means.

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