ok i have added mouse and joystick to my program now. joystick is something new to 3ds2vxl. i refused to program it into the DOS version coz the whole system was retarded. the windows system is better but it's still kind of retarded coz the center of the axis is reported as 32768 and not 0 even though the data is of type LONG which is a 32-bit signed integer. i haven't done force feedback though. i don't think i will for a long time.

things should be easier now coz i finally realized the help system in my compiler is retarded coz it doesn't work all the time so now i just go to the msdn thing on the internet, even though it's supposed to be exactly the same thing i think.

i'm wondering if i should start to try 3d acceleration right now, and if i get something to work then i will get a better graphic card and complete the 3d acceleration, coz it's kinda ridiculous now how slow my program is. i want to add game code so people can see their models in context but my program is so slow it would be unplayable, and i don't want to wait till Doom3 comes out before i do all this. maybe 3d acceleration would be easy for me since i made a good software 3d engine already. what do you think?