Game Developer's Guide to Cybiko (With CD-ROM)

This is the only book on the market that teaches young programmers how to develop game programs for the Cybiko. It is aimed at programmers who have some familiarity with the C programming language and want to program games for the Cybiko hand-held device.

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THE Guide for programming the Cybiko

By Gregory L Smith - January 3, 2002

Although I am an accomplished Cybiko programmer, I still had something to learn from Ernest Pazera's new book "Game Programmer's Guide to Cybiko." Ernest fills in the gaps left by Cybiko's own SDK documentation in a conversational and informative style all his own. You'll find important information on which functions to use, and which to avoid. While not for the absolute beginner, the Guide gives a number of frameworks from which to begin. Ernest covers all aspects of the SDK, from graphics to sound to messaging and even threaded programming. This is easily the most comprehensive dissection of the Cybiko SDK available. Unlike some treatises on programming for other operating systems, The Guide is more than a mere reproduction of the SDK Help file. There are real examples with relevance to different programming tasks.The accompanying CD is filled with examples to compliment the book as well as library extensions to the Cybiko SDK that any programmer will find... read more