Date:	Mon, 18 Nov 1996 17:21:05 -0600
From:	mushashi AT geocities DOT com
Subject:	Re: Future of Allegro (?)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway:	from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

- compiling problems with djgpp 2.01 :
     The allegro in the djgpp distribution has been updated to fix this.
     It is just to allow compiling so no point in updating.
     Not tested by Shawn but approved.
- rotating big sprites :
     I think this one is trivial.In "graphics.c" replace line 1238 
       "dist = fsqrt(fmul(w, w) + fmul(h, h));"
     with
       "dist = itofix(sqrt(wgap*wgap+hgap*hgap)/2);"
     And add "#include <math.h>".
     This also gives a slight performance improvement if your computer has
     hardware support for floating point maths.
     The real issue is to make allegro use the math processor if there is one.
     Fixed point math is great on older computers without math processors.
- sound problems :
     Perhaps some of the posts is from people trying to load stereo Wav files
     with the load_sample function? 
     If you are using Sound Blaster you can convert them to mono 
     with WaveStudio.
- precompiled liballeg.a
     In my opinion is this a good idea.
     Why not do it the same way as the other packages with an binary and a
     source archive?
     Unzipping directly in the djgpp directory would also be good.
- the author 
     Shawn only has a acess to email but he wrote to me:
           I've just bought a new PC, and am shortly (honest,
           I really mean it... :-) going to be back on the net for real.
     We all welcomes you.

OK, this was my opinions about allegro why not post yours?

Mushashi

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