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Links
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Articles about Allegro
Gamasutra - Allegro Inspires A New Generation of Independent Developers (26/10/1999).
GameDev.net - An Interview With Shawn Hargreaves.
Linux Today - Playing the Open Source Game (05/07/1999). Here you have the original copy by Shawn.
Competitions
The Allegro Team Competition 2001 - The purpose of the competition is not only to match the game programming skills of different people, but also to promote programming in teams, to improve the organisation skills involved. To make it even more interesting, the rules say that the team must consist of people from different countries.
The Pixelate Games Competition 2001 - This time you will have a few months to write your entry, but will it be good enough?
IdeaHack 2001 - Never found the appropriate competition due to restrictive rules? This one is for you: before entering, you submit an idea or requirement your game will have to follow, and your entry will be scored depending on how well you meet your own goal.
BlitzHack 2003 - The BlitzHack is a six-hour-long Allegro-focussed game programming competition, in which entrants strive to make the best game possible with extremely limited time constraints using a shared backstory as a theme and basis for the game, a shared media set, and a shared code snippet set.
SpeedHack 2003 - The Allegro SpeedHack 2003.
TINS 2003 - TINS is a speedhack-like competition. The goal is to write a complete game from scratch in a single weekend, using Allegro of course.
SpeedHack 2004 - The Allegro SpeedHack 2004.
SpeedHack 2005 - The Allegro SpeedHack 2005.
Programming
C-scene - Documentation and sources about C/C++ programming.
Flipcode - News and resources about game development.
Linux Game Development Center - Web site dedicated to video game programming under Linux.
Programmer’s Heaven - Contains different sources about game programming.
Game Programming Resources - A web page dedicated to game programming resources. Its contents are in Portuguese.
Pixelate - An online game developing magazine started sometime around March 2001 which keeps growing bigger and better with the help of the Allegro community.
Game Programming Wiki - Here you will find game programming tutorials and source code for a variety of languages and platforms. Also, because this is a wiki, you are encouraged to contribute your knowledge and help the repository grow!
Zingtech Game Development - Game development site with tutorials, an introduction to DirectX, a summary of a software engineering internship at Electronic Arts, and a game idea center. Also a section on Allegro, game programming books, and community resources. Current projects include Dr. Mario Online.
Libraries
Mesa - Mesa is a free implementation (under GPL license) of the OpenGL API.
OpenGL - SGI’s OpenGL web site.
SVGAlib - Linux SuperVGA Graphics Library. Since SVGAlib is quite extended, Allegro can use it as a driver reaching more people with different hardware.
Linux Framebuffer - The Linux Framebuffer is another Allegro driver, which plays nice and lets Allegro programs run at user level without problems.
SDL - The Simple DirectMedia Layer is a C cross-platform multimedia library which has been used to port many Windows games using DirectX to other platforms.
Clanlib - Clanlib is a C++ development kit covering from low level to high level stuff. Certainly bigger than Allegro, includes things like scripting or network support.
Plib - A suite of portable game libraries with a C++ interface, oriented towards 3D games (through OpenGL).
TinyPTC - TinyPTC is a cross-platform framebuffer library with a simple API (a subset of OpenPTC). It features a few output targets such as raw XLib, XShm, XDbe, XDga 1/2, etc. It also automatically manages colordepth conversions on-the-fly if such a feature is needed.
DEPUI, DEGFX, DETK - DEPUI is a small extremely portable user interface library. DEGFX is a small extremely portable graphics library. DETK is a small toolkit library for commonly used functions. The three can be combined and used under the GPL license.
Compilers
DJGPP - A DOS port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). It’s an excellent compiler which comes with a big number of tools. It’s supported by all Allegro versions.
MinGW - A Windows port of the GNU compiler collection (GCC). It’s supported by the 4.x or newer versions.
Misc
Allegro.cc - Very complete website dedicated to game programming with Allegro. You can find there programs written with Allegro, help documentation, and library extensions and various tools.
Games for Linux - This is a portal where people are helped to port their games to Linux. They support all multiplatform libraries, but most games use Allegro.
Allegro’s webring - This is Allegro’s webring. From here you can get to many other Allegro related web pages.
Xuti software - XuTi software has written a good deal of documents about Allegro in portuguese, including installation guides, tutorials, and they provide precompiled Allegro RPMs for Conectiva Linux.
E.T.S.I.Telecommunication at the University of Málaga, Spain - To motivate the students during their first year programming C/C++, they are taught to write simple games with Allegro, like Simon or Minesweeper. The students also take part in a competition and the results are quite good.
Allegro development group at the University of Pereira, Colombia - During 2001 a conference about Allegro planted the seed. Now an Allegro development group is active and producing documentation in Spanish for students at the University of Pereira, Colombia. They also have an Allegro related support mailing list and make meetings from time to time.
FreeBE/AF - This is a low level driver interface for accessing graphics hardware, which can be used by Allegro. It provides all the same features as VESA 3.0 and adds the ability to use 2D hardware acceleration in an efficient and portable manner, meaning drivers can work under DOS and Linux depending on how they are written.
The Graphic File Formats Page - A good repository of file formats. 2D bitmap specifications, 3D geometry and animation specifications, utils, infos, resources, FAQs…
Wotsit’s format - This site contains file format information on hundreds of different file types and all sorts of other useful programming information: algorithms, source code, specifications, etc.
The Allegro Wiki - A collaborative wiki hosted by Thomas Fjellstrom.
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