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ISBN: 1-931841-25-X
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2001096481
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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank everyone who helped to make Visual Basic Game Programming with
DirectX a reality. First, I thank God for giving me the skill to take it on and the resolve to
complete the manuscript. Thanks to my family and friends for their support. Thank you,
Jennifer, for putting up with my mood swings during the past six months, with mounting
deadlines and source code that often just did not work like it was supposed to. Thank you,
Jeremiah and Kayleigh, for being a pleasant distraction and the joy of my life.
I owe a big thank you to everyone at Premier Press who helped to create this book. Jody
Kennen (who is now with New Riders) originally brought up the idea for this book and
asked me to think about writing it. Emi Smith has been simply wonderful at coordinating
everything, followed by Mitzi Foster, who helped acquire the screenshots and a lot of
other last-minute things. Cathleen Snyder was a terrific project editor; she did a great job
editing the final manuscript, which was very marked up, and is an extremely friendly
person. Thank you, Cathleen, for your patience and perseverance. Thanks go to Joshua
Smith, the technical editor, for doing a fine job at pointing out errors in the source code;
Elizabeth Agnostinelli, the copy editor, for correcting my spelling and grammatical errors;
and Arlie Hartman, the CD-ROM producer. Thanks to Bill Hartman and Mike Tanamachi,
who prepared the final layout and artwork.
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