From: sparhawk AT eunet DOT at (Gerhard Gruber) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: allegro == or != programming Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 21:20:06 GMT Organization: EUnet Austria Lines: 51 Message-ID: <35c967e0.17829184@news.Austria.EU.net> References: <35C42D12 DOT C9D01BA1 AT geocities DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: e168.dynamic.vienna.at.eu.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Aug 1998 21:21:01 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk Destination: Merlin From: Gruber Gerhard Group: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 09:12:48 GMT: >I am just curious on what most people think about allegro.... It's great. >Not to put down allegro or anything (it does have it's uses) but isn't >it sort-of like cheating in a way? I mean, it's like having all the >important stuff done for you... the only thing required is an idea So what? I'm sure there are a lot of people that don't know anything about graphics programming, or sound programming and such stuff, and still may have good ideas for games. So the choice is to either learn everything by yourself and do it yourself and when you are finished you don't know or don't care anymore what you originally wanted to write, or you use a great library that does exactly what you need and you concentrate on the things that are important to YOU. I found a library for GUI programming that supports an easy interface for Windows and X. Prior to this I spent more time with fighting with MS idiotic stuff and API programming then I usually spend to write my applications. And then I don't even have the benefit of X support. Now its vice versa. I spend a minimum amount of time withe the GUI and can program the things I'm really interested in. The same goes for allegro. I'm planning a game with a friend and I'm sure I don't want to spend the next year by learning how to program MY gfx card, let alone all the other cards that are out there. And then the same starts for the sound as well. It's pretty obvious IMO what advantages such a thing has. -- Bye, Gerhard email: sparhawk AT eunet DOT at g DOT gruber AT sis DOT co DOT at Spelling corrections are appreciated.