Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:5020 From: Shawn Hargreaves Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Allegro and linux Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 16:58:51 +0100 Organization: The University of York, UK Lines: 32 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: tower.york.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4psjom$781@news.csus.edu> To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp On 14 Jun 1996, Ralph A Pope wrote: > OK, quick question - what would it involve to port Allegro to work with > the Linux version of GCC, or is it already compilable and compatible? Is It won't work at present. I don't have any experience of Linux, but at a guess, I would imagine the hard work in porting it would be converting the keyboard/mouse/timer/etc code (this would probably involve completely rewriting most of it). I don't know how you access video memory under Linux, but assumming there is some way of getting direct access to it, the graphics code would be pretty easy to convert. And then there's the sound code... The sample player probably wouldn't cause much trouble, but I think the MIDI player would present problems. Does Linux support MIDI? I fear not... I don't have the time to port it myself, although I'd love to see a Linux version. Anyone else want to have a go? > it possible? I hope so, 'cause I'd REALLY hate having to learn GRX... What's so bad about grx? Of course I'm biased in favour of Allegro, but grx is a good lib too :-) /* * Shawn Hargreaves. Why is 'phonetic' spelt with a ph? * Check out Allegro and FED on http://www.york.ac.uk/~slh100/ */