please can somebody help me

i bought the book teach yourself game programming in 21 days second hand

but i did not get a cd

i need a cd or source code from cd please

Hi Michael,

This may not be actually what you want but it may be of some help...

https://github.com/nbrookie/game_programming_21_days_allegro

Have a search for the book name plus github, source code, or CD on google and see what you can track down.

I believe that is a fairly old book you have.

And do not ask people to provide you with something that might break copyright laws. The CD you are asking for is protected just the same way the book is. If you didn't got one with your book, complain to the seller. If you bought it second hand, most probably you bought it knowing that there was no CD provided.

This is a forum frequented by professionals and hobbyist game devs that do respect other peoples copyrights (and most of which hope their copyright will be respected the same way), please do the same.

Now, if you want to get hold of the contents of the CD, the only legal way to do so is to either a) buy another copy coming with a CD, b) buying the CD alone second hand, or c) Contact the author or publisher and see if you can get hold of the CD content some other way.

The book might be out of print for a long time and the CD content might have been made available online for free. There is the chance that there is exclusive content online for book owners, including the CD content, and you might be able to make a point being eligible to that having bought the book. Maybe the author or publisher wants to show good will and will provide you with something (if it will be the full CD content, IDK).

While I don't have the CD for such an old book, I do have two side-notes that are closely related.

do not ask people to provide you with something that might break copyright laws

That is correct.

When book stores have old books, rather than return them to the publisher they rip off the covers and typically destroy the CD.

Sometimes people get their hands on the books marked as destroyed. Book resellers know better than to accept books without a cover since legal repercussions can be severe, with a six-figure fine per book that could bankrupt the small business. However, sometimes these books make the rounds to a family member or a friend-of-a-friend who is interested in the subject in a well meaning -- but unlawful -- shift.

Then those people ask all over the Internet for the missing contents of the out of date, out of print book.

I don't see this as a completely unreasonable request that someone ought to be slapped down for.

Taken alone, perhaps not.

We've recently been hit by a series of posts (purposely not giving other account names out of respect against retaliation) by one or two people who picked up a bunch of old game development books, about 15+ years old, and is begging for copies of the CD, and also asking questions about getting the book's ancient code from both pre-standard compilers and from early C++98 compilers to work on modern C++11 and C++14 compilers.

Those posts have ranged from polite and similar to this one, just asking for the disc contents, to somewhat abusive demanding strangers on the board fix compiler problems stemming from decades-old compilers.

Those posts are probably the reason michael1978 is taking the ratings beating.

This is a forum frequented by professionals and hobbyist game devs that do respect other peoples copyrights (and most of which hope their copyright will be respected the same way), please do the same.

and some of us have even lost our game studios in the past due to copyright violations (Caveman v1.3, circa 2002).

I don't mean to hijack OP's post but I'm curious, did you commit some serious breaches you were aware of and got caught or was it something that took you by surprise and gob-smacked you by the subtlety and arcane character of copyright and patent laws? I'm a bit scared of the latter.