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mallardz —
Thanks for the comprehensive answer mrmixer, that was very helpful, it makes complete sense now! :…
Wilson —
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. @midnight_mero That's actually the way I usually approach lea…
So guys, this is my piano theacher and I having fun creating a "game theme" for a suposed charecte…
It is not just speed that makes Windows bad, although I would argue that the speed of a number of …
@ongaku I'd encourage just diving right in and when you hit something you don't know, turn elsewhe…
Lenny —
The adoption rate of Windows 8 is so abysmal that they are giving free updates to the next OS. Yes…
The pure C was done to facilitate porting handmade hero to non C++ platform (I think it was for th…
So you may say that if your program runs slow, no hardware is going to help. The reverse of the po…
Yes. About that. It is incredibly important. Because if you can't make good use of it, then you m…
What I am saying is, that there is nothing in Windows that stops you from writing amazing fast sof…
mallardz —
At the end of day 29 we divide handmade.h into two header files, handmade.h & handmade_platform.h.…
You can control vibration by sending HID page stuff back to joystick. I have PS4 controller, and I…
The reason I don't think raw input is an option is because I don't know of any way to send vibrati…
I think it is not true that nobody is able to do better, because . Windows NT 3.51 was . What we…
This was not working for me on Windows 8.1 x64. I needed to change CompareMemory function to be ca…
You and your caches :) While Windows works fine with me (with a lot of help from + ) and I've bee…
Few people have bashed microsoft as badly as I have done. In private. I have literally hated windo…
Thanks guys for holding my hand through all that. I feel reasonably incompetent. But glad I've got…
Another option would be to use API to read Joystick info and not use DirectInput and XInput at al…
EDIT Oh... this ended up much longer than I initially thought ^^; sorry.. manages to say very litt…
If you have define like this: Then following code: will get expanded to: You see what is wrong …
Yes, if you want to support XBox controllers you pretty much have to use XInput - DirectInput does…
So i removed all the other files from the project, and just built with Win32Handmade.cpp. And it r…
Yes, there is. Click right mouse button on file, choose Properties and then select "Yes" for "Excl…
Ok, thanks guys for helping out, I think I AM fighting VS :( That sounds like what's happening, be…
I don't use VisualStudio but it is fairly typical that .cpp files will be compiled separately and …
When you get errors, which file are you compiling? Win32Handmade.cpp?
#pragma comment(lib, "dsound.lib") // alternative to adding the lib as an additional dependancy /…
But is Win32Handmade.cpp included in this file you are showing? Or is this file included in Win32H…
I have the typedef's in Win32Handmade.cpp. I just notices a VS2013 settings file in the hh source,…