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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 10:46:54 -0800
From: Kevin Baca <kbaca AT skygames DOT com>
Organization: BlueSky Software
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To: George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Future of Allegro
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George Foot wrote:
> 
> Kevin Baca (kbaca AT skygames DOT com) wrote:
> : Is there any demand for a port to Win95/NT?
> 
> That's nothing to do with Allegro... read the threads on RSXNTDJ's
> capabilities, check out what Cygnus are up to, etc. It's more to do with
> DJGPP that Allegro. Maybe when there is a fully functional port to
> Win95/NT of DJGPP, a graphics library compatible with Allegro will be a
> good idea. Then again, I doubt a lot of Allegro's features will be that
> useful under Win95.
> 
> --
> George Foot

Porting DJGPP has nothing to do with whether Allegro can be useful under
Win95/NT.  Allegro was designed in such a fashion that it can easily be
made OS independent, and therefore it doesn't necessarily need to be
tied to DJGPP.

If you've used DirectX at all you would know that there is still a good
amount of complexity that must be overcome to get any real work done. 
Allegro is simple and small enough to provide a good layer between
DirectX and a game so that the hardware side of game programming becomes
simpler without adding significant overhead.

Although Win95/NT/DirectX discussions may be inappropriate to this
group, this is the group with the most Allegro traffic, and therefore
the original post seemed appropriate.

If there is enough interest in porting Allegro to Win95/NT/DirectX then
discussions of this type can be moved elsewhere.  Until then, I'll ask
again if there is any interest in a Win95/NT/DirectX port of Allegro.

-Kevin