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Where Did We Leave Off?

Now, if I remember correctly ... which I do ... the last time we were together, we had just completed our loading game screen for SPACE-TRIS. Which means we have a Direct Draw library and a bitmap library, but not much else. We had to use the WM_KEYDOWN message to process our input, and we just got the privilege of looking at a loading game screen. That was it.

Well, all of that is about to change. First, we are going to get a Direct Input library developed. After that, we will code some advanced timing routines. Next, we will develop the menu code for our menus. Finally, we will take a look at the new game loop and how it had to be changed.

We will be covering A LOT of code in this article so you may want to review the earlier articles for basic concepts if you are new to Win32 ASM programming. Otherwise, head to the next section where we will get started with our Direct Input routines.

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