From:	"Vadim Pokotilov" <vpoko AT earthlink DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: Announce: Allegro 3.1
Date:	Mon, 4 Jan 1999 22:17:52 -0500
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Umm, why can't I find it? All I see on the website is Allegro 3.0 and
Allegro 3.1 beta. Where's the 3.1 final download?

Shawn Hargreaves wrote in message <199901042034 DOT PAA10700 AT delorie DOT com>...
>A final release version of Allegro 3.1 is now available from the SimTel
>archives, in the directory v2tk/allegro/, filename alleg31.zip.
>
>The FreeBE/AF video drivers have been uploaded to the same location, in
>the files freebb10.zip (binaries) and freebs10.zip (sources), or if you
>prefer to go on using the old statically linked hardware drivers in the
>same way as with previous versions of Allegro, these are available in
>the vdrv.zip addon module.
>
>This upload is very similar to the beta release from a few weeks ago,
>the only differences being some bugfixes and the addition of a Swiss
>keyboard mapping and German message translation. If you have previously
>installed the beta release, a small (22k) upgrade patch can be
>downloaded from http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/al31bd.zip.
>
>Warning: don't try to install Allegro 3.1 directly over the top of an
>existing Allegro 3.0 system: this can cause no end of problems with old
>files being left in your compiler directories. You should start by
>deleting allegro.h from djgpp/include and liballeg.a from djgpp/lib, and
>then unzip Allegro 3.1 from scratch into a clean directory, after either
>deleting or renaming your previous copy.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>The complete ChangeLog since Allegro 3.0 is far too long to post here:
>see http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/changes.html. To summarise:
>
>Full support for VBE/AF hardware accelerated graphics.
>Can take advantage of VBE 3.0 features (triple buffering).
>Video bitmap functions for organising offscreen vram.
>Supports stereo samples.
>Sound input routines (MIDI and sampled sound).
>True 16 bit interpolated sample mixing, with up to 64 channels.
>Driver for ESS AudioDrive soundcards.
>New joystick driver system and more flexible API.
>Drivers for Sidewinder, Gravis GamePad Pro, and SNES joypad.
>Better polygon routines (hicolor, truecolor, MMX optimisation).
>Improved localisation support (keyboard mappings and translation).
>Plugin architecture makes it easy to customise the grabber tools.
>Added RTF docs, a new help.txt file, cross-references in the Info docs.
>Five new example programs.
>Many other portability improvements and bug fixes.
>
>
>--
>Shawn Hargreaves - shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk -
http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/
>"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
>deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." - Frank Zappa
>

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