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Re:Denthor's Graphics Tutorials: Why I am a Programmer by tokenrove on Monday January 05, 2015 @09:22AM (#8838867)
When I was a kid, I spent a huge amount of time reading everything I could find in the msdos programming archives on x2ftp.oulu.fi: ftp://ftp.lanet.lv/pub/programming/mirror-x2ftp/

Denthor's tutorials were also included in the "PC Game Programmer's Encyclopedia" (also on that site) which collected many useful documents. I had been programming for a while, but Denthor's tutorials were among the first that allowed me to go beyond simple text adventures and graphics with the BGI (Borland Graphics Interface!).

All that stuff had a profound effect on me; not just the technical information, but the idea of communicating that information for free in a way that was comprehensible to novices.

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Re:Denthor's Graphics Tutorials: Why I am a Programmer by alfiedotwtf on Monday January 05, 2015 @02:40PM (#8840643)
PC Game Programmer's Encyclopedia! Now that was awesome resource :)

With that and Ralf Brown's Interrupt List, you were Superman.

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Re:Denthor's Graphics Tutorials: Why I am a Programmer by tdicola on Monday January 05, 2015 @01:28PM (#8840235)
Oh yeah, I loved that FTP site! It was one of the only internet addresses I had memorized by heart.
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Re:Denthor's Graphics Tutorials: Why I am a Programmer by alfiedotwtf on Monday January 05, 2015 @02:41PM (#8840649)
There were also a ton of stuff on xs4all.nl
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