Category: Graphics

For programmers interested in 3D graphics. 2D/3D transformations, hidden lines and surfaces, data structures for 3D objects, object animation, spatial projection, screen manipulation, rotation of obje

3rd ed. by K. Gerits L. Englisch R. Bruckmann
If you're Atari ST coder, this is absolutely must read. Every Atari ST subsystem is described on hardware and software level. Book contains also BIOS/GE

Source code demonstrating double buffering with ATI Radeon hardware accelerated functions. (works only on Falcon030,CT60,CTPCI with latest beta drivers, not yet available publicly).

A brief description on how the Shifter chip on Atari 16/32 works, so nobody will have to guess how to set it up for hardware scrolling

ICTARI USER GROUP MAGAZINE
Archive contains all issues from 1st to 52. Alot of useful informations for Atari programmers. (C/m68k assembler/GFA-basic). Contains some utilities, but some can be outdated a little. Full list of articles can be found on wiki pages (see: Wiki pages).

excerpt from "Atari magazyn", in polish, description of ST screen organization with some source code in GFA basic

Persistence Of Vision

This CD (packed iso image) contains virtually all the Persistence Of Vision menus, utilities and demos.

Where possible all source code has been included. For each menu, the MSA file has been included as well as the ST file ready for use with PaCifiST.

Contents:
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Adr - Adrenalin UK stuff
Dcx - Dcx compression software
Download.st - POV development system for Atari computers
Falcon - Demos and applications for Atari Falcon 030
Link - Brown Beer Development Link filer code
Misc - Misc source code, etc.
Music - Loads of unused music.
Other.pov - Recodes, intros, source codes for other demos, etc.
Pe - Pure Energy menus coded by POV
pov - Persistence Of Vision menu and demo source code + exe
Reference - Text files
utils - Pacifist, st-zip, lha, ghostlink, msa2.3, fastbasic

Sprites, pixel plotting, scrolling, palette changes, screen buffering(taken from ST World issue 36)

horizontal scrolling, clipped sprites, sprite boundary checking (taken from ST World issue 37)

Line drawing, line clipping, mouse handling (taken from ST World Issue 38)

polygon clipping, polygon drawing, polygon filling(taken from ST World Issue 39)

trigonometry, 3d transformations, lookup tables (taken from ST World Issue 40)

perspective, animation, multi-faceted objects (taken from ST World Issue 41)