Direct Draw

Hi,

Im looking for some tutorials that will help me with direct draw. The main things i need to be able to do is to load a bitmap and do like transparency (like bitblt) and then to be able to do a collision detect.

Any ideas for any part of this. I have the load bitmap bit done, its just making bits of it transparnt and collision detection.

I dunno anything about DirectDraw, but my friend tellz me BitBlt is faster...

Oh, I just finished adding collision detection to my 4943754389273th game engine thou... I think.. I lost count of how many timez I started over ;) Anywayz, I might be able to help you if you're doing yer tiles the same way I am.

Maybe you could visit fox cool programming site:
http://foxmccloud.tsx.org/
and bitblt is definitely not faster than DDraw :D

I dl fox's demo and when i run it my pc freezes :( im using bitblt at the moment but it does not cut it. All i want is to load a bmp (i can do that). the main thing is collision detection. The type of game i wanna make islike Zelda (nintendo).