Allegro.pas 4.3.0 on the way...

**Ñuño Martínez** · 06-04-2009, 08:29 AM

Hello people.

I've released the first alpha of the Allegro.pas game library version 4.3.0. Here you have what you'll find:

It compiles and runs on GNU/Linux. There are two problems: I'm afraid I broke Delphi compatibility and some things (MIDI, bitmap rotation...) don't work yet.
UNICODE support. Well, limited but functional.
Lots of new functions including several hardware acceleration where available.
New documentation engine (pasdoc).

There are some features planned too, i. e. OpenGL support.

Please download it, test it and let me know your opinion (and if you find a bug, fix it and send me the patch

) specially if you own a Windows system since I don't have one now and I didn't test it.

Really, download it, compile the examples and the demo game and tell me if you can actually use it. Thanks!

**Wizard** · 08-04-2009, 10:26 AM

Hi Nunu, I downloaded your project but can't get it to work. I'm using Vista and Delphi 6. The fix script doesn't do anything and I added your lib in delphi library path but there are no *.dpr files to compile

**Ñuño Martínez** · 09-04-2009, 02:26 AM

Hi Wizard. I'm afraid it will not work on Delphi this time. AFAIK Delphi doesn't support public variables on DLL, that's why previous Allegro.pas used a lot of pointers. Or that was in old Delphi 6, don't know if latest versions support public variables as Free Pascal does.
Anyway, the Allegro development team did design a new API for Allegro 5 which should be more compatible with other languages (original Allegro is written in C) so Allegro.pas 5.x should work with Delphi again.

If you want try, the programs are named "*.pp" (from "Pascal Program"). Rename them to "*.dpr".

If you can't use 4.3 you can try with latest 4.2. It has a bit less functionality but it works. And I'll fix version 4.2 if it's necessary until release of version 5.0.