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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/liballeg/liballeg.github.io
• Owner: liballeg
• License: other
• Created: 2015-07-22T15:59:07.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-12-02T02:07:23.000Z (6 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-12-02T05:32:21.707Z (6 months ago)
• Language: HTML
• Homepage: http://liballeg.org
• Size: 164 MB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 5
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.html
  • Changelog: changes-5.2.html
  • License: license.html

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  Allegro - Introduction

  

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Allegro - Introduction


History

According to the Oxford Companion to Music, Allegro is the Italian

for «quick, lively, bright». It is also a recursive acronym which stands

for «Allegro Low LEvel Game ROutines». Allegro was started by Shawn

Hargreaves in the mid-90’s but has since received contributions from

hundreds of people over the net.

Allegro 5

Allegro 5 is the latest major revision of the library, designed to

take advantage of modern hardware (e.g. hardware acceleration using 3D

cards) and operating systems. Although it is not backwards compatible

with earlier versions, it still occupies the same niche and retains a

familiar style.

Allegro 5.0 supports the following platforms:



Unix/Linux

Windows (MSVC, MinGW)

MacOS X

iPhone



Allegro 5.1 also adds support for:



Android



You can see the functionality Allegro provides by browsing the online

reference manual.

Allegro only supports 2D graphics primitives natively, but it is

perfectly reasonable to use Allegro alongside a 3D API (e.g. OpenGL,

Direct3D, and higher level libraries), while Allegro handles the other

tasks. Allegro is also designed to be modular; e.g. if you prefer, you

can substitute another audio library.

Allegro 4

Allegro 4 is the classic library, whose API is backwards compatible

all the way back to Allegro 2.0 for DOS/DJGPP (1996). It is no longer

actively developed, but we still apply patches sent to us by

contributors, mainly to fix minor bugs. Every so often we will make new

releases.

Allegro 4.4 supports the following platforms:



Unix/Linux

Windows (MSVC, MinGW, Cygwin)

MacOS X

Haiku/BeOS

PSP (currently in git repository only)



The older Allegro 4.2 branch additionally supports:



Windows (Borland)

QNX

DOS (DJGPP, Watcom)



You can see the functionality Allegro provides by browsing the online

reference manual.







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