From: yorka AT dlc DOT fi (aYk)
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Subject: Re: Is Allegro up to speed?
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 16:40:53 GMT
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On Sun, 28 Jun 1998 11:55:28 -0400, stdenis <stdenis AT compmore DOT net>
wrote:

>> Hold it right there... What do you mean by commercial use? If
>> commercial stuff is what you want to write then move to Visual
>> C++/DirectX/Windows 95. It's that simple.
>
>First off, all of allegro's functions are really fast, I mean blit_rle_sprite
>22000 times a second is really fast.  Or 150000 lines a sec.
>
<snipsnipsnip>

You didn't get the point. I am not saying that Allegro isn't fast
enough (even though it could be a lot faster, that's why I use my own
lib), I'm saying that it is not worthwhile to use Allegro in the first
place because the commercial possibilities of DOS apps are 0%
nowadays. Meaning: you cannot do commercial stuff with Allegro because
Windows 95 is the only platform on which you can code a commercial
game nowadays.

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