From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Allegro question.
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 19:30:46 +0100
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Peter Palotas writes:
>From what I've understood the current version of allegro (2.2 ?) doesn't
>support any hi- or truecolor modes!? If that is the case, how are things
>going about implementing these things? 

Pretty much finished: v3.0 is getting very close to beta. If you don't
mind using potentially buggy and unsupported code, you can get the
latest sources from http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro, in the 
work-in-progress section.

>And if I want to make a program that can use hi and truecolor modes 
>(when allegro is released) without having to make any changes to it 
>later, what should I think about? Is there something
>that will change when blitting bitmaps and the most basic things?

Most things are the same, but obviously color constants are specified
differently. There is a doc explaining all the changes on my webpage:
http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/truecol.html


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