This article will talk about how you can apply gamma correction to your games or programs. The article covers Windows and X11 (using XFree86 extensions to X11). X11 covers Linux/Unix systems and works for the entire screen (as it's not possible to only apply it to your program). Gamma correction can help make some colors to appear brighter or darker. This is useful for CRT monitors whose colors get increasingly darker with time.
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Welcome to the first in a series of tutorials that I hope will help new developers and fans of the genre. When I first started to learn about computers and even before I got serious about programming, one of the first PC games I ever owned was a shareware game called 'Scorched Earth'. It was a cleverly designed game where you were in a tank against up to 9 other tanks on a landscaped 2D screen, and the main idea was to try to destroy all of them and be the last one standing to win the round. Do this for a chosen number of rounds and whoever has the highest score at the end, wins the game.
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