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bluedino on June 5, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Writing a game engine in pure C: The Graphic Initi...

The Wolf3D source is probably an even better start. Much simpler, the bad part is that it's 16-bit Borland C.

Andre Lamoth's DOS game programming books are a good read as well, he used 16-bit Microsoft C. Sprinklings of assembler in both.

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