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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: The Flend <flend AT colony-4426 DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 15:28:36 +0000
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Subject: Re: Linux Allegro
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The Flend <flend AT colony-4426 DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> wrote:

> Sorry for repeated thread but...
> 
> After using Linux I am far too enamoured with it to go back to using
> DOS for programming - tried it under 95 today and it just wasn't the
> same...
> 
> I know there's been seemingly no progress on Linux Allegro for a while
> but I was wondering if anyone had actually managed to compile a
> workingish version of the library? I tried...and failed.

Seems like Marek won't finish it. I tried it with 5 versions that he sent me 
without any success.
 
> I only need simple stuff like blitting, RLE sprites, datafile
> handling, mouse and keyboard...(although that sounds like quite a lot
> :)

In addition to the X11 port that other sugested I'll sugest you to take a look 
at a library called JLib, isn't as complete as Allegro, but works under Linux 
(console & X), DOS (DJGPP & Watcom(?)), Win32, etc.

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