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wegstar · Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 11

"Allegro is a game programming library for C/C++ developers distributed freely, supporting the following platforms: DOS, Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, Irix, Solaris, Darwin), Windows, QNX, BeOS and MacOS X. It provides many functions for graphics, sounds, player input (keyboard, mouse and joystick) and timers. It also provides fixed and floating point mathematical functions, 3d functions, file management functions, compressed datafile and a GUI. "

Here's more info:
http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/readme.html
... and tutorials:
http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/docs.html

- I've used it extensively on Puppy for many game projects.. Works right out of the box on Puppy with the standard X libraries.

The static library is included also. To compile against the allegro libraries simply add

Mr. Maxwell · Joined: 30 Aug 2008 Posts: 215 Location: Nebraska, USA

Um, I get a 404 error when I click on the download link. Confused

cklammer

I found the download link to be dead! Evil or Very Mad

For my purpose I took the allegro (4.2 ?) (runtime only ?) from here:

Glimpse (http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=19322) is a multi-platform image manipulation package, supporting BMP, PCX, and TGA files. It is designed to require very few resources, and provides blurring, sharpening, brightness adjustment, watermarks, embossing, dodging, and edge detection. It is only 604k. Rolling Eyes

Good Luck! Laughing

cklammer