DaBooda Turbo v1.4 - Introduction
Andrew "DaBooda" Stickney
August 12, 2004

This collection of tutorials will cover the new concepts and commands of v1.4.  This is really to be used in conjunction with the original tutorials, for you will not know the basics of the engine, and intitializing without first studying those.  This is a breakdown of the Tutorials within this Tutorial Pack:

Tutorial A Mousing Around (Mouse Techniques)
Tutorial B Going Loopy (Counters)
Tutorial C A Little Bit of Everything (Mouse, ViewPort, Counters, SoundBuffers)
Tutorial D You Spin Me Right Round! (Vertex Groups)
Tutorial D - 2 Poor Man 3D (Vertex Groups)
Tutorial E Protect ThySelf (Resource Class)
Tutorial Bonus Alpha Channel (.dds Files)

A New DLL

Just a general note to people coming from v1.3, and this is the fact that v1.4 is a whole new .dll.  What this means is the old one will still be in your system, and a new one will be referenced instead.  Basically after installing v1.4, to use this you have to reference DaBooda Turbo 2DEngine 1.4 .dll.  Do not worry about any previous commands, for they are still there, all that has been done is new commands have been added.  The reason for incompatibility, is the fact that a lot of the internal structure was changed to accomodate the new classes as well as some of the newer commands.


Please Feel Free to Email Me....

Again, I always and always will return any email, even if it is to tell you not possible.  So please feel free to write me about anything, how the engine is doing, what can be done to improve, errors, or programming questions.  This is how and why this engine will always remain a community effort and totally free, I didn't make all of this just to hoard it away or worse yet... ask for money.  I honestly admit to myself, this is vb, and noone is going to poor any money into anything into this, but they haven't seen true vb power yet.  This engine I believe when someone is willing to put the time into learning it, will produce stunning and great games.  But do not expect this engine to write the game for you, for you are the ideas to turn the wheels of this Engine.

I have been estatic with the support this engine has recieved so far, the criticism is there also.  But the support has outweighed this, and this engine is thriving for it, so please feel free to join the team.  There is no claim to fame, money or even notoriety involved.  So why do it you ask, so we can get vb back to the front as a leading game maker, do not worry for the craving for new 2D is out there, only the marketing companies think that 3D is the only thing possible anymore.... All it takes for a good game is a good idea, concept is key, but graphics do help...lol

Please contact me, if for anything to call me a dellusional nut, at masterbooda@yahoo.com ....