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From: | "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
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Subject: | Re: allegro |
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Date: | Sun, 21 Nov 1999 06:01:09 GMT |
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"Joel Malone" <eljoelio AT wantree DOT com DOT au> wrote in message news:80e0g6$dqo$3 AT centipede DOT wantree DOT com DOT au... > Allegro is one of the best game libraries in the universe. > It covers nearly every aspect of a game you could need > from sound to graphics to file i/o. It even has it's own data > file format that has LZW compression (good) LZW is bad. http://burnallgifs.org/ It's not LZW. It's LZSS, which is a cousin to the deflate algorithm used in .zip and .png compression. > The graphics support VESA and some of the routines > include drawing sprites with rotation, scaling and > translucency and has several texture-mapping routines. > > All in all it's like DirectX for DOS. No. It's a platform. The US Department of Justice defines a platform as a set of APIs that meets certain criteria. DOS is a platform. Windows is a platform. Linux is a platform. Unix + X is a platform. BeOS is a platform. Mac OS is a platform. Allegro is a platform too; when combined with a libc, it meets all the DOJ's requirements EXCEPT networking. Damian Yerrick
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