[Announce] euAllegro 0.1beta release
- Posted by Ray & Debbie Smith <smithr at IX.NET.AU> Dec 10, 2000
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Hi everyone, I have put the first beta release version of euAllegro on a NEW webpage. http://www.geocities.com/ray_223 hopefully this webpage will work better than the last attempt! (if anyone has trouble downloading anything from there can they please email me privately ... actually one or two emails to let me know people have been successful downloading would be good to!) euAllegro is probably not even half complete ... but that doesn't mean it isn't useful, just that Allegro is a hugh library. There are so many things I haven't done ... for instance True colour support, joystick (cause I don't have one) GUI routines, flic routines, etc etc etc .. the list goes on. But the good news is all of the basics are done ( examples see euAllegro Games Pack and the examples that come with euAllegro - about 20+ examples I think). There are about 400 routines wrapped with the most important 150-180 documented and mostly tested. I think there still are about 300+ routines to be wrapped! I'm not going to go into details ... if your interested in games/graphics programming and not shy of being the first to test something then download it from the above site. I'm not going to send it to Rob for a week or so, just incase there are any real nasty bugs in there. When (hopefully) I get some good feedback I'll send it to RDS. This is one hugh job! and with xmas coming up I'm going to take a little break on the euAllegro development side and hopefully relax a little and make another game or two or play euLibnet for awhile and Delphi. I'll try my best to answer any questions, fix any bugs and implement any routines that anyone specifically requests. Just a couple of other things ... tools are included for making packed datafiles, fixing/manipuating palettes in images, the Mappy map editor for creating datafiles for the Mappy runtime engine and the original doco for all the libraries wrapped. The whole thing is just over 1MB. Any feedback, bug fixes, comments etc very welcome. Thanks and goodnight, Ray Smith