--- Pradeepto Bhattacharya wrote:
[Don't mean to hijack this thread]
:)
I started searching for svga and what not.I used to be running Win98 those days btw. So I bumped into two libraries - Zephyr and Allegro ( * ). Both could do what I wanted - nice gfx routines in svga. Allegro is a Game Programming Lib. Allegro was more community based and had GUI routines even. I fell in love with it. It was/is a "giftware" started as a hobby project by a dude called Shawn Hargreaves (typo?). He was the Linus for us Allegro fanboys. SDL was BSD for us, we loved to make fun of it :P.
Umm, interesting.
( * ) I also found another libraryaround this time - called as Qt - I thought it was foobar because it used C++ :O and I chucked it.
But now, you are /completely/ into it, isn't it?
The best part about Allegro was itscommunity. There is this forum site, www.allegro.cc. Loads of helpful people there. For a long time, I was the only Indian there, iirc, then there were few more here and there. I suggest, you join Allegro.cc if you are interested in Game Development. I have long stopped doing anything in Allegro since 3-4 years now, around the same time since I started using that library that I had chucked few years back :)
I'm not particularly interested in game programming. A few of my friends are. However, they aren't probably aware of allegro. I think, I must introduce them to it.
Try and play with Allegro to learn a lotof gfx routines, I suggest.
I have installed Allegro libraries (4.1). Though I can find the documentation, the API documentation isn't accessible over the internet and isn't available within the docs. Though there are man pages for each function of the library, I'm keen to know the list of _all_ functions offered by the library. For example, I can search function offered by svgalib with man svgalib.
I cannot do the same with allegro. My search is on, but in the meantime, if you recall, please post it.
BTW, thanks for this email. It is always great pleasure to learn something from members of this list. :)
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