Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/05/10/01:18:11
On Wed, 10 May 2000 03:31:31 Justine Szczap wrote:
>Hi,
> I'm trying to learn Djgpp and Allegro. Can someone please help me out by
>giving an example of how to use the palette routines. The examples that come
>with Allegro aren't too in-depth. Thanks...
>- JS
>
Do you have the latest Allegro WIP? No? Download it
now! http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro and go
to the Work in progress page. Tis pretty stable even
at WIP stage. Make and install the library and the
docs. Oh, and be sure to remove any previous
installation of Allegro before installing the new one.
Now read the info docs that came with it. The docs
also come in .rtf, .txt, and .html format. Join the
Allegro Mailing List and post any more Allegro related
problems there. Or better yet, go to Allegro.cc
http://www.allegro.cc.
To learn more about DJGPP, read the DJGPP FAQ (if you
don't have it, download it from simtel or where ever
you got your copy of DJGPP). C programming is a
different topic altogether and you need a book for that
or you can find so many tutorials on the net. Using
the Gnu Utilities (The entire DJGPP toolset) requires
knowledge from the info files so read them as well.
The first time I used DJGPP, it was about _a_month_
before I actually programmed something with it. It's
been six months since that, and I'm still knee deep in
reading the docs. Don't be intimidated by the amount,
a tremendous amount, of reading. You need it. And
besides, discovering and doing things on your own *is*
the fun part in programming.
Also, download RHIDE. If you've worked with
Borland/Turbo C before, you'll be right at home with
RHIDE. Again, it's available from simtel. I was a
newbie (and still am to extent) and all you have to do
is read, read, read. It pays off in the end.
---
nimrod_a_abing
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