From: "Vadim Pokotilov" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Announce: Allegro 3.1 Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 22:17:52 -0500 References: <199901042034 DOT PAA10700 AT delorie DOT com> X-Posted-Path-Was: not-for-mail X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 X-ELN-Date: 5 Jan 1999 03:18:15 GMT X-ELN-Insert-Date: Mon Jan 4 19:35:15 1999 Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 Lines: 56 NNTP-Posting-Host: port226-198.dial.cambridge.l3.net Message-ID: <76s09n$lfp$1@birch.prod.itd.earthlink.net> To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Umm, why can't I find it? All I see on the website is Allegro 3.0 and Allegro 3.1 beta. Where's the 3.1 final download? Shawn Hargreaves wrote in message <199901042034 DOT PAA10700 AT delorie DOT com>... >A final release version of Allegro 3.1 is now available from the SimTel >archives, in the directory v2tk/allegro/, filename alleg31.zip. > >The FreeBE/AF video drivers have been uploaded to the same location, in >the files freebb10.zip (binaries) and freebs10.zip (sources), or if you >prefer to go on using the old statically linked hardware drivers in the >same way as with previous versions of Allegro, these are available in >the vdrv.zip addon module. > >This upload is very similar to the beta release from a few weeks ago, >the only differences being some bugfixes and the addition of a Swiss >keyboard mapping and German message translation. If you have previously >installed the beta release, a small (22k) upgrade patch can be >downloaded from http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/al31bd.zip. > >Warning: don't try to install Allegro 3.1 directly over the top of an >existing Allegro 3.0 system: this can cause no end of problems with old >files being left in your compiler directories. You should start by >deleting allegro.h from djgpp/include and liballeg.a from djgpp/lib, and >then unzip Allegro 3.1 from scratch into a clean directory, after either >deleting or renaming your previous copy. > >---------------------------------------------------------------- > >The complete ChangeLog since Allegro 3.0 is far too long to post here: >see http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/changes.html. To summarise: > >Full support for VBE/AF hardware accelerated graphics. >Can take advantage of VBE 3.0 features (triple buffering). >Video bitmap functions for organising offscreen vram. >Supports stereo samples. >Sound input routines (MIDI and sampled sound). >True 16 bit interpolated sample mixing, with up to 64 channels. >Driver for ESS AudioDrive soundcards. >New joystick driver system and more flexible API. >Drivers for Sidewinder, Gravis GamePad Pro, and SNES joypad. >Better polygon routines (hicolor, truecolor, MMX optimisation). >Improved localisation support (keyboard mappings and translation). >Plugin architecture makes it easy to customise the grabber tools. >Added RTF docs, a new help.txt file, cross-references in the Info docs. >Five new example programs. >Many other portability improvements and bug fixes. > > >-- >Shawn Hargreaves - shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk - http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/ >"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production >deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." - Frank Zappa >