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Back in December of 2001, Eric Gunnerson coded a C# implementation of the classic game Spacewar using the interop capabilities of.NET to access the DirectX 7 API. In May of 2002, he uploaded the code to help launch the.NET community Web site, GotDotNet (http://www.gotdotnet.com). Eric is a Microsoft Visual C#.NET program manager and author of the Apress book A Programmer’s Introduction to C#, Second Edition. Eric also wrsites a C# column for MSDN Online called “Working with C#.”

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© 2004 David Weller, Alexandre Santos Lobão, and Ellen Hatton

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Weller, D., Lobão, A.S., Hatton, E. (2004). Spacewar!. In: Beginning .NET Game Programming in C#. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0721-4_5

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