Alegro??

The main site for allegro is www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro

I don''t know if there''s an easy library, but i never write any win32 app, and i find that programming with allegro is very easy(is like programming for dos, but it uses directx)

it''s easy but not very good. ok I guess for 2d, but absolute crap for 3d.

JoeMont001@aol.com

hmmm... could that be because it''s a 2D library?

hmmmmmmmmm..........could that be why it has almost as much documentation on 3d functions as 2d?

JoeMont001@aol.com
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The 3D functions are helper functions for doing your own software 3D engine. It is not, has never been, nor ever will be a 3D library. It says so clearly in the documentation

However, George Foote, one of the Allegro contributors, has created AllegGl (or something like that) that provides an interface between Allegro and OpenGL. You can find it at sourceforge.

I actually already have AllegGL. It''s great. But I was talking about just the Allegro functions. It would make sense that it''s a 2d library, but none the less, the 3d functions are still present. Once you get AllegGL it turns everything around. You get hardware acceleration, you can mix DirectDraw with OpenGL, and it you can do everything that you could normaly do in OpenGL. That library is what kept me with Allegro. But I still like to make my games without any big libraries such as Allegro.

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Personally i think allegro only has TWO big problems... number one is the big .exe''s and number two is the lack of HW... (for the original Allegro that is)

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Game project(s):
www.fiend.cjb.net

actually you can download free compression programs to reduce the size of the .exe''s A LOT. I windows version has no problems with the hardware. (DirectX)

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