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Finally! It's done! It's been a good week or two since I've started writing the article, but now I'm finally done. Ahh, it's been a bumpy ride, but I did it. First, I'd like to give a few closing notes about the future and then some thanks to people who have helped me along my way. First of all, I plan to continue a series out of this article. In the next one, I will probably explain SDL enough for you to use OpenGL over it since I know a lot of you have been saying you only want a tutorial to get you started with OpenGL on Linux. So, your wish is my command, and that command will be executed. Secondly, I need to thank a few people and...things(?). I want to thank Mike DePalatis (CmndrM) for his proofreading on my article. His insights have been helpful and he's caught a few...weird...lines in my text. Next, I'd like to thank Dave Astle and Kevin Hawkins for 1) making GameDev.net, 2) formatting this article, 3) hosting the article. I also wish to thank #linuxhelp and #sdl on irc.openprojects.net for telling me when I'm being stupid and showing me the know-how that every Linux user should have. Oh yeah! I shouldn't forget John Hall and Loki Software for writing the book Programming Linux Games. It's an excellent resource and I think anyone that really wants to get into Linux development should read it. I'd also like to thank the command man for telling me how to use things such as tar. man is a great command (stands for manual) that will tell you all it knows about a topic. Well, I'm off and will probably start writing the next article in the series after I take a nice long nap. So, I'll leave you with a few notes about myself and my contact information in case you need help. My name is Andrew Vehlies and I'm a computer junky. I've been using C for 2 years and C++ for about one. I've made some games in SDL but I mainly end up doing web development or helping people solve problems. I'm also a webmaster and designer for StickSoldiers and StickSoldiers2 (http://www.sticksoldiers.tk). I started my own open-source game programming project called EchoGames (http://echogames.sourceforge.net) as well as a community project called Snoballz (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/snoballz) which is still in its design stage. Contact Information Email: Cheesemonk13 at hotmail dot com (please make the subject "Linux Article") AIM: Andyrewww MSN: uses same email as "Email" above ICQ: 71478137 Y!im: avehlies or weezmasvelte IRC: roy on irc.afternet.org superRoy on irc.openprojects.net (I suggest using Email, MSN, or IRC as I will use those the most) Other people offering to help Name: AJ Jones Email: Merlin2k at pacbell dot net IRC: Merlin2k on irc.afternet.org Great Links http://www.linux.org - The Home of Linux http://www.libsdl.org - The Best Multi-Platform Library, covers Input, Sound, Window Creation, Graphics, and misc. http://www.opengl.org - The Home of OpenGL Is that it? Can I leave? Well, I guess there are only two things left to do. :sav ~/Articles/part1.txt :qa

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