The author shows users how to utilize the most popular sound card for personal computers, the Sound Blaster card from Creative Labs. Covers everything from installation to custom programming. Provides an overview of the different versions of Sound Blaster and the many different software products that are available.

With over 50,000 copies sold, Osborne's back with a revised "official" book that covers the newest developments in the Sound Blaster family. With this book, you'll get the inside scoop on how to turn your Sound Blaster soundcard into more than just a noisemaker. You get full installation instructions, ideas for improving the quality of your sound recordings and playback, source code programming examples, and much more.

How was Wolfenstein 3D made and what were the secrets of its speed? How did id Software manage to turn a machine designed to display static images for word processing and spreadsheet applications into the best gaming platform in the world, capable of running games at seventy frames per seconds? If you have ever asked yourself these questions, Game Engine Black Book is for you. This is an engineering book. You will not find much prose in here (the author’s English is broken anyway.) Instead, this book has only bit of text and plenty of drawings attempting to describe in great detail the Wolfenstein 3D game engine and its hardware, the IBM PC with an Intel 386 CPU and a VGA graphic card. Game Engine Black Book details techniques such as raycasting, compiled scalers, deferred rendition, VGA Mode-Y, linear feedback shift register, fixed point arithmetic, pulse width modulation, runtime generated code, self-modifying code, and many others tricks. Open up to discover the architecture of the software which pioneered the First Person Shooter genre.

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Home theater enthusiasts with basic technical PC skills are shown how to set up an HTPC entertainment center.