Subject:
RE: nanoX bugfix v0.4 coming
From:
Alex Holden ####@####.####
Date:
12 May 1999 19:24:19 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905122008560.1171-100000@hyperspace>
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Alex Holden wrote:
> Have you had a look at Allegro? It's a really excellent DOS games library
> (with Windoze and X ports under way the last time I looked). The license
> is pretty open:
<snip swap-ware license>
I just downloaded the latest version of the library, and turns out that it
is now totally free. Here's an extrace from the feature list:
Supports VGA mode 13h, mode-X (twenty three tweaked VGA resolutions plus
unchained 640x400 Xtended mode), and SVGA modes with 8, 15, 16, 24, and
32 bit color depths, taking full advantage of VBE 2.0 linear framebuffers
and the VBE/AF hardware accelerator API if they are available. Additional
video hardware support is available from the FreeBE/AF project
(http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/freebe/).
Drawing functions including putpixel, getpixel, lines, rectangles, flat
shaded, gouraud shaded, and texture mapped polygons, circles, floodfill,
bezier splines, patterned fills, masked, run length encoded, and compiled
sprites, blitting, bitmap scaling and rotation, translucency/lighting,
and text output with proportional fonts. Supports clipping, and can draw
directly to the screen or to memory bitmaps of any size.
Hardware scrolling, mode-X split screens, and palette manipulation.
FLI/FLC animation player.
I think it'd be really great if we could make use of parts of Allegro in
Nano-X. Man years of work have gone into the optimised low level
primitives and things like the pallete handling code, but it's still
extremely clean, small, and _very_ fast.
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