Message-ID: <388B404C.8818B949@unb.ca> From: Endlisnis X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: allegro References: <80avj8$amn AT hermes DOT acs DOT unt DOT edu> <80bf21$2a0$1 AT baker DOT cc DOT tut DOT fi> <80e0g6$dqo$3 AT centipede DOT wantree DOT com DOT au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 27 Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 18:53:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.114.6.233 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT home DOT net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.on.wave.home.com 948653633 24.114.6.233 (Sun, 23 Jan 2000 10:53:53 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 10:53:53 PST Organization: @Home Network Canada To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Damian Yerrick wrote: > > 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. DOS doesn't support networking... -- (\/) Endlisnis (\/) s257m AT unb DOT ca Endlisnis AT HotMail DOT com ICQ: 32959047