From:	twidler AT aol DOT com (Twidler)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: More help...
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Date:	17 Oct 1998 05:55:49 GMT
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I was having the same debate with myself not long ago.  Should I use an already
made library, or not?  What I did was learnt everything that I could about
graphics (trying to make my first game) and when I figured out how things
worked, I just turned it all into Allegro.  I know how to initiate the video
card in many modes...now that I understand that, Using allegro to do it for me
would just be like I was using my own code. (because Iknow how to do it).  So
my suggestion to you is to learn what you want to do, first the hard way, and
then once you understand it, convert to something even faster and
cleaner....just like allegro.

hope it helped!

Twidler

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