I have finished reading a book or two on DirectDraw and I''m trying to build a basic engine using ddraw to do basic games. I am doing ok so far, just started really. I''m reusing some of the code from the books and I''m writing some of my own. A real newbie effort here. I have Tricks of the windows game programming gurus which has a huge 2d engine, but I''m trying to build something more basic than that. I want to be able to load in TGA files instead of BMP files and I dont have the first clue on how to start except to mimic the BMP loaders that are included in Mr. Lamothe''s book. Just wondering if anyone had any available resources or advice I could use? Thanks, Dave

you can pick up a simple(non compression) tga loader from many places around the net. I like Nate''s one for learning:

nate.scuzzy.net

under common code...