Date:	Wed, 15 Dec 1999 17:39:09 +0100 (CET)
From:	Wilmer van der Gaast <lintux AT dds DOT nl>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Questions
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On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Michael Abbott aka frEk wrote:

> Wilmer van der Gaast wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Muntean George Andrei wrote:
                   ^^^^
HELP!!! It's the millenium bug, already... Shudder...

> Time... It takes less time to link in Allegro then to assemble the stuff
> yourself... Also Allegro has been fine tuned by a lot of people whereas you're
> just one person taking a shot at it :)
> 
> If you're really serious about speed, etc. in that case you could use the
> allegro blit functions, etc. and then once the project is finished you could
> write your own functions tailored to specific needs...
> 
> For example: A tile game which has a background layer of tiles that move
> around... blit() needs to clip in every possible situation but if you were
> writing it, you only need to clip when the tiles are slightly to almost
> completely on the screen (The tiles around the edges of the screen). Allegro is
> definitely fast enough for most of todays uses tho' but when you need more speed
> you need more speed :)
> 
It's not the speed, I don't even know if my routines really are faster, but
I'm just used to it, as I have been programming games in TASM+QB45 for about
two years... It wasn't very nice, because QB45 didn't like too complex
programs... :( And because I wanted to port my games to Linux, I had to start
using C. Because my primary C development environment is Linux/GNU/GCC, DJGPP
is the ideal choice... I like it!
But I just really like to do it all myself, the sound mixing for SB/GUS,
keyboard handler, FLI player, BMP viewer, groupfile stuff, whatever.
Letting somebody else do all the hard stuff is lazy, IMHO, not that I
hate people using Allegro, I just don't want do use it by myself.
But if I want (just if I want...) to port my games to Windows, can I use
DirectX with DJGPP??? (Famous question on this list, I have seen...)

> > Oh yeah, I'm a geek... That must be the problem...
> 
> Cool! That makes two of us :)
Well, fortunately I now know I'm not the only one on this world... :)

> 
> - Michael
> 

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Wilmer van der Gaast (lintux AT dds DOT nl)
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