Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/05/26/14:21:55
On Wed, 24 May 2000 15:26:01 GMT, dickey AT herndon4 DOT his DOT com wrote:
>Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comremovebullcr_p> wrote:
>>Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>>>Portable to what platforms/compilers/libraries?
>>
>>Portable to most non-Mac graphical platforms: Use Allegro.
>
>"most" ? I looked up Allegro a few months ago when you referred to it,
>saw that it was a program that had been ported to a half-dozen variants
>of Unix 4-5 years ago.
I was referring to the fact that Allegro-based programs have such a
huge potential audience: {PC|MS|DR}DOS, Wintendo 95/98/ME, Windows
NT 4/2000, BeOS (partial support; no sound yet), and many eunuchs
systems (at least FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, and Solaris). I'd say at
_least_ 95% of Intel-based PC market share. A Mac port probably
wouldn't be that _hard_; it's just that nobody has submitted a
System Driver for the Mac OS.
Here's the Allegro stack:
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application (e.g. Vitamins)
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Allegro common code
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Allegro System Driver
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Host operating system
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Hardware
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