From: "Gutter" <impee3 AT excite DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Question about allegro demo
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Wow. Didn't expect the almighty Shawn Hargreaves to answer my question.
Thanks for the help. I found the readme on the grabber program so I
shouldn't have too many more problems.

Thanks,
Gutter


Shawn Hargreaves wrote in message ...
>Gutter writes:
>> I have a question about demo.exe that came with Allegro.
>> When you start it up, it shows large smooth fonts that say
>> "Allegro 3.1". All I can find in the source is a reference
>> to demo.dat. How were these fonts created?
>
>demo.dat is an Allegro format datafile, and was created using
>the grabber program.
>
>I'm not entirely clear which "Allegro" text you are referring
>to here, as different parts of the data in demo.dat were created
>in different ways. The intro animation is a FLIC file that was
>rendered using 3DS Max, the title screen logo is a bitmap that
>I drew using Neopaint, and the other fonts were exported from
>my TTF2PCX program.
>
>
> Shawn Hargreaves.