From: Shawn Hargreaves Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: allegro for "scientific" programming? Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 19:22:32 +0100 Organization: None Distribution: world Message-ID: <5cHNTCAopJgzEwCZ@talula.demon.co.uk> References: <337D25A1 DOT 71BB AT primenet DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: talula.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 22 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Smith A. Cat writes: >allegro or what? Calling allegro a game lib seems a bit narrowminded, >and not exactly calculated to have it find it's way to the broader >audience who might make good use of it! That's probably true, but I can't think of any better description for it! Any bright ideas? I called it a game library because that was what I originally set out to write, although it has grown quite bit since then :-) But I still think the term is valid, as game programming remains the primary emphasis of the code. Sure, it may be useful for lots of other things (a graphics library can draw all kinds of different graphics, depending what order you call the functions in :-) but you have to admit that it concentrates on gameish routines like sprites, blitting, and page flipping, and leaves out things like thick lines and boxes with curvy corners that a more user-interface oriented libraries would probably provide... -- Shawn Hargreaves - shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk - http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/ Beauty is a French phonetic corruption of a short cloth neck ornament.