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From: "Johan Henriksson" <jhe AT realsoftware DOT cjb DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: why Allegro
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 18:05:42 +0200
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> > > why do you use Allegro library?
> > It is the best gamelib for DOS. Nowadays it's portable as well
> > so we can say it knocks any kind of concurence.
> and what about SDL ? The question can be reformulated as: what makes
> Allegro more suited to game
> programming then all the others? (I'd also love to know the answer...)

Allegro is more portable and has been around for a longer time. I bet there
are far more addons for Allegro than for SDL. It really doesn't matter
much what you use as long as you are comforted with it but I think
Allegro will live longer.