Hi,
[Don't mean to hijack this thread]
On 8/6/07, Roshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> List,
>
> I have created a How-to for using the Svgalib with C.
> Svgalib is a graphic library (low-level) that offers
> basic functions for graphics programming.
>
> In the past, I was trying to find out an alternative
> to writing C programs for graphics under any
> distribution.
>
Roshan dude, this feels like deja-vu or something to me.
Many years ago, I was searching for a lib that could do "1024x800" or
atleast "800x600" since I could never get TC++ graphics.lib/drivers to
work at higher than 640x480. And I wanted to create some GUI foo for
some trivial civil engineering software that I had written so that 2nd
year CE students didnot have to do some thousand calculations :P.
First version was using gotoxy, next one using BGI. But then 640x480
really sucked after a point.
I started searching for svga and what not. I used to be
running Win98 those days btw. So I bumped into two libraries - Zephyr
and Allegro ( * ). Both could do what I wanted - nice gfx routines in
svga. Allegro is a Game Programming Lib. Allegro was more community
based and had GUI routines even. I fell in love with it. It was/is a
"giftware" started as a hobby project by a dude called Shawn
Hargreaves (typo?). He was the Linus for us Allegro fanboys. SDL was
BSD for us, we loved to make fun of it :P.
( * ) I also found another library around this time -
called as Qt - I thought it was foobar because it used C++ :O and I
chucked it.
Anyways, I stuck with Allegro for a long long time. I learnt
a lot while using it. I learnt that TC++ was the not the only compiler
in the world, since Allegro needed something called DJGPP which
apparently was a DOS port of some random compiler called gcc :O. Also
learnt that there was something called MingW - Windows port of gcc. My
Civil Engg. software was re-done using Allegro.
The best part about Allegro was its community. There is this
forum site, www.allegro.cc. Loads of helpful people there. For a long
time, I was the only Indian there, iirc, then there were few more here
and there. I suggest, you join Allegro.cc if you are interested in
Game Development. I have long stopped doing anything in Allegro since
3-4 years now, around the same time since I started using that library
that I had chucked few years back :)
Try and play with Allegro to learn a lot of gfx routines, I suggest.
Cheers!
Pradeepto
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