From: twidler AT aol DOT com (Twidler) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: More help... Lines: 13 NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder02.news.aol.com X-Admin: news AT aol DOT com Date: 17 Oct 1998 05:55:49 GMT Organization: AOL Canada http://www.aol.ca References: <709a35$63n$1 AT news DOT kornet DOT nm DOT kr> Message-ID: <19981017015549.25669.00001998@ng112.aol.com> To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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