Allegro

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Allegro
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Type: General Gaming
Platform: See Summary
Version: 4.3.0
License: Giftware (Free)
Website: Allegro Home Page

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Summary

Allegro is a game programming library for C/C++ developers distributed freely. According to their website 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.


Features

Feature Yes No
sound effects and music X
input X
timers X
font rendering X
windowing X
scripting X
GUI X
OpenGL X
networking X
math X
3d math X
file management X
threading X


Platforms

  • DOS
  • UNIX (including Linux, FreeBSD, Irix, Solaris, Darwin)
  • Windows
  • MacOS X
  • QNX
  • BeOS

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Tutorials and Source Code

For tutorials on Allegro, click here: View Allegro Tutorials.

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