Allegro library

[Seiya]

Has someone intention to port on Amiga 68k the Allegro Library to port so many and many games?

An example very well known is Mugen that us this library.

[Hitman]

I have ported it to OS4 but I haven't released it yet as it is not quite finished.  But when it does get released the source will be available in the official Allegro Subversion repository.

I don't plan to do a 68k version as I don't have a classic Amiga any more but with the source code released anyone can updated it to make it work on the 68k and all the hard work is already done.  :-)

The only thing is that I am not sure that performance will be acceptable on 68k - even on my 800 Mhz AmigaOne it's a bit slow.  It's graphics architecture isn't very easy to optimise.  :-(

[alexh]

BuZz where are you :-)

[denli]

I haven't been around for a while, so...

What is Allegro and where can I find information about it?

[SamuraiCrow]

Allegro is a multimedia programming library for several platforms.  It started as an MS-DOS game making package but has since been ported to Linux, Mac, and Windows as well as several others.

Here's Allegro's homepage.

[buzz]

Well, I just don't think it would be usable on an 060 Amiga so I wouldn't have much interest in porting it. And on winuae etc, you might as well run the windows version.

Well done Colin though. I'm sure we will see a morphos version once the sources are released and perhaps an aros version.

[SamuraiCrow]

I just downloaded the OS4 sources for Allegro off of OS4Depot.  Is there still an interest on the other Amiga-likes?

[OlafS3]

I just downloaded the OS4 sources for Allegro off of OS4Depot.  Is there still an interest on the other Amiga-likes?

Yes for 68k if possible :-)

if you manage to get a working 68k version could you PM me on amigacoding.de with a download-link? I would like to integrate it in next version of Aros Vision

[OlafS3]

I have ported it to OS4 but I haven't released it yet as it is not quite finished.  But when it does get released the source will be available in the official Allegro Subversion repository.

I don't plan to do a 68k version as I don't have a classic Amiga any more but with the source code released anyone can updated it to make it work on the 68k and all the hard work is already done.  :-)

The only thing is that I am not sure that performance will be acceptable on 68k - even on my 800 Mhz AmigaOne it's a bit slow.  It's graphics architecture isn't very easy to optimise.  :-(

it is a pretty old thread but I wanted to comment it... I will create a "lame" benchmark page comparing 68k, PowerPC and X86 (where available) where you will see that 68k on UAE (or Amithlon/Aminux) outperforms at least many of the PPC platforms. So speed is not that big issue anymore.

[utri007]

it is a pretty old thread but I wanted to comment it... I will create a "lame" benchmark page comparing 68k, PowerPC and X86 (where available) where you will see that 68k on UAE (or Amithlon/Aminux) outperforms at least many of the PPC platforms. So speed is not that big issue anymore.

OK interesting, but I'm prety sure that most of emulation guys / girls, do nothing more that play superfrog once a while or something like that.

[commodorejohn]

I just downloaded the OS4 sources for Allegro off of OS4Depot.  Is there still an interest on the other Amiga-likes?

Definitely. Love to see a 68k version.

[OlafS3]

OK interesting, but I'm prety sure that most of emulation guys / girls, do nothing more that play superfrog once a while or something like that.

Even if that would be true what has that to do with what I wrote?

[OlafS3]

OK interesting, but I'm prety sure that most of emulation guys / girls, do nothing more that play superfrog once a while or something like that.

even user who only use it for gaming are potential customers. The attitude "we are the elite, the NG user" and there are the "retros, only use it for gaming" is wrong, expecially if there are much more 68k users than all "NG" users combined. So I want to proof that you can develop on 68k with lots of power behind. Add there highly optimized libraries written in assembler for slow (from todays view) computers than you get the picture

[nicholas]

OK interesting, but I'm prety sure that most of emulation guys / girls, do nothing more that play superfrog once a while or something like that.

Yeah because developers don't use emulation ever to save time on compiles. :sigh:

[lionstorm]

the problem with this library on AOS4 is that the support for joypad was not done/included, so you are forced to use the keyboard, which is definately not fun for arcade games, for instance !