Welcome to the first MonsterSoft tutorial page. This is an intermediate to advanced tutorial. If you are a beginner, don't worry. There should be enough of an explanation of what is going on for you to pick it up. This tutorial from start to finish will cover:

• Introduction to Protected Mode programming
• Advocacy for Protected Mode programming
• Introduction to VESA programming
• Introduction to linking external ASM files into BP
• Introduction to Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Introduction to 48-bit addressing
• Dealing with 48-bit addressing
• Getting VESA information from Protected Mode or Real Mode
• Plotting your first pixel
• Discussion of blits (transparent sprites)
• Introduction to blits
• Implementation of blits
• Dealing with blit clipping
• Other stuff we haven't thought up yet

If you are intimidated by some of the terms (or you just don't know what they mean), take a look at our glossary.
Please keep in mind that this tutorial is currently being constructed. The above topics will be finished as quickly as possible, and this page will be changing slightly in layout. Also, some of the links contain Javascript, and won't work on certain browsers (ie, lynx, Mosaic, or the "zero frills" web browser on the BeBox).