From: "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com>
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"Joel Malone" <eljoelio AT wantree DOT com DOT au> wrote in message
news:80e0g6$dqo$3 AT centipede DOT wantree DOT com DOT au...
> Allegro is one of the best game libraries in the universe.
> It covers nearly every aspect of a game you could need
> from sound to graphics to file i/o. It even has it's own data
> file format that has LZW compression (good)

LZW is bad. http://burnallgifs.org/
It's not LZW. It's LZSS, which is a cousin to the deflate algorithm
used in .zip and .png compression.

> The graphics support VESA and some of the routines
> include drawing sprites with rotation, scaling and
> translucency and has several texture-mapping routines.
>
> All in all it's like DirectX for DOS.

No. It's a platform.
The US Department of Justice defines a platform as a set of
APIs that meets certain criteria.
DOS is a platform. Windows is a platform.
Linux is a platform. Unix + X is a platform.
BeOS is a platform. Mac OS is a platform.
Allegro is a platform too; when combined with a libc, it
meets all the DOJ's requirements EXCEPT networking.


Damian Yerrick