Allegro.pas

[Rodrigo Robles]

Great work man! Good luck at TINS!

[Ñuño Martínez]

Thanks.

I did a small point'n'click game (very small, one screen only). I should put order in some things and I'll talk about it here.

[Ñuño Martínez]

There are a lot of work to be done yet, but I did several big improvements so I've uploaded a new release.

In short: There are several bugfixing, including (but not limited to) the primitives add-on that didn't work in previous versions. There are new functionality too, as 3D transformations and custom memory management. Also I added new examples and updated some other that shows how to use basic and advanced stuff to supply the lack of documentation.

You can download it from here.

Any comment and suggestion will be welcome.

[Ñuño Martínez]

I've uploaded an small update to the 4.4 branch. It should fix unit alWin (I never use it so I'm not sure if it actually works ) and updates some documentation. Not more to tell at the moment.

For the downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/all...files/4.4.5-1/
For the online documentation: http://allegro-pas.sourceforge.net/docs/4.4.5/

[farcodev]

Thanks for your sustained work!

[Ñuño Martínez]

Oh my oh my! More than one year since the last release (5.2.alpha2).

But that's not the worst part, no it isn't. The worst part is that I did a ton of improvements. Mostly documentation but also:

• Low-level file access, quite useful to add new loaders and file formats to the library and essential to create fully integrated add-ons.
• Shaders for both OpenGL and DirectX.
• Configuration files. It does the same than TIniFile but Allegro uses its own ini file support internally so it may be the best way to integrate add-ons and to define default configuration to different subsystems.
• A collection of new examples (including the one that shows how to fake 8bpp graphics mode!) and some bugfixes, as well as better Microsoft Windows integration.

If you're wondering why I didn't release 5.2.alpha3 yet the answer is simple: I forgot it. Last year I had a lot of personal and laboral issues that affected my memory. Really. I'll release it this evening or tomorrow. I'll not do it now because I'm busy (I really am ) and because I've found a flaw in the SVN tree I must fix too (There isn't 5.2.alpha in the RELEASE directory!).

[edit]
Ok: I just uploaded the new 5.2.a3 release. Please enjoy.

Thanks for your sustained work!

You're welcome.

[turrican]

Nice! This is the best time to puts hands over allegro