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According to Amazon, I had a new book come out this week!

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If the title didn't give it away, I regret to inform you that I didn't.

I'm sure everyone is aware that a long time ago I had signed up for writing a 3rd book.. A more "advanced" game programming book that took an already completed game I had written, disected it, and showed the techniques I used, etc.  Once it became apparent to me that I wouldn't have the time for that, I left that project off in good hands with a co-worker and friend Rick. 

Now, more recently I was asked about updating my quite popular Kickstart book with a second edition.  The goal there being to add more content for the new API's, and update the book to the latest versions.  At the time this was being discussed it was the early days of what would become MDX2, and I decided that should be the focus of this second edition.

So, both of these projects were designed to run with CLR2 and MDX2.  As I'm sure everyone is aware now, MDX2 is evolving into the XNA Framework, which is delaying (yet again) each of these projects.

So, despite what Amazon says, to my knowledge there is no "new" Managed DirectX book coming out this week.  Certainly not one from me.  Plus, with the XNA Framework, a "Managed DirectX Kickstart" second edition doesn't seem as logical (second edition of a first run product?) so that seems likely to change as well..

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  • Anonymous
    April 12, 2006
    Well I had pr ordered it.
    and asked you about the same two posts below.

    :/
  • Anonymous
    April 12, 2006
    The real problem here is that the publisher failed to keep the details updated at http://www.bowker.com/. You or Rick need to get Sams to update the title information. Then it flows out to Amazon and all the other online sites.
  • Anonymous
    April 12, 2006
    http://www.yaodownload.com/games/
  • Anonymous
    April 13, 2006
    Noooooo, and just when I was about to by it!
  • Anonymous
    May 02, 2006
    That's too bad.  I read the description on Amazon and was just about to pre-order it until I saw this.
  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2006
    SONOFA>>>> i just bought that book... what the heck is it then?