Where are the Website files - Delay, due to stupid author

[Brian Beuken]

As noted in the Errata forum.

There has been a mix up over release dates, totally my fault, I was looking at the EU release date for the paperback as my deadline to get the site fully up and running, and have been busy working on my finished game examples, and cleaning and tidying up the downloadable code, planning to post it before the end of March.

Unknown to me though the Kindle version has gone on sale in the US (and maybe EU) so there are people now working on the book.

Arghhh, thats kinda thrown me.

So for the moment I am stopping the work on the final versions, to focus on getting the tidy download code on the site.

All the code is here and working, but does need to be checked and tested on post Nov17 Rasbian, and also new and old Linux kernals as there were some major updates to many systems. There were also minor changes made to the code, over the course of the book so some of the early projects may have got added to after being written, so I need to make sure they are ok and if not, are stripped back to their base levels for you to add to. 

So I'll be adding the projects a few each day, to hopefully keep up with your need to work through the kindle version. But if you get ahead of me, let me know here and I'll try to get later files ready for you to use as you need them.

I will initially post all projects as pre Nov17 Raspbian Jessie projects, so you may find you need to use 6 potentially new lib files if you have a later version of Raspbian Stretch.

• GLESv2_static 
  
• EGL_static 
  
• vchiq_arm 
  
• vcos 
  
• khrn_static 
  
• pthread
  
  

in place of the 2 older GLESv2 and EGL  libraries used pre Nov17 

(if you just updated an old version of Raspbian, you may find you have both, but best to use the new libs)

As soon as I'm done with the check/test/uploads I will add config systems to them to give post Nov17 automatically.


Then I'll provide Ubuntu, Armbian and Debian style builds, which will not be quite as reliable as there is considerable variation in distro's for Ubuntu and Debian, but you should work that out ok.


All that said, I am expecting to get everything in place before the hardcopy of the book is released, this just upset my timetable a bit, so please hang in there and let me know if I'm screwing up, I'm happy to work with you to fix any problems.

[Brian Beuken]

I didn't quite make it, getting them up before the hardcopy was published, a bad dose of manflu and some other work got in the way, but I am back at it now.

A few more tested and uploaded now, but do keep in mind these use Raspbian Jessie libs, and will need changes for Raspbian Stretch, or other flavours of Linux.

I will post builds with config systems to allow you to build on other targets, as soon as I am able.

[Brian Beuken]

Skramble and Firework files ready to go up tonight.

[Brian Beuken]

HelloMatrix2 and Hellocubes are now up.. I will be updating the rest of the 3D files this week.

[Brian Beuken]

All hello cube files are up, feel free to tinker with them, especially the textured cube its a good exercise in using UV coordinate, and also in considering the reasons why we need a texture manager, this demo loads a texture for every cube, so if you do too many, it will choke pretty quick.

The shader manager isn't being used yet either but you can make an attempt to set it up and check out some of the available openGL2.0 shaders available here to tinker with.

Next up is the 1st OBJ loaders used to produce a basic space game.From this point the book goes from hard examples to suggested content, some of which will be in the source files but you should be able to add your own concepts here.