Re: [Announce] euAllegro 0.1beta release
- Posted by jiri babor <jbabor at PARADISE.NET.NZ> Dec 10, 2000
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Hi, Ray, No problems downloading it this time :). Very nice, impressive work. I hope Bernie will notice it's not shrouded! jiri ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray & Debbie Smith" <smithr at IX.NET.AU> To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 3:46 AM Subject: [Announce] euAllegro 0.1beta release > 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 >