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Software News : Allegro for OS4 1.0 released
Posted by Hitman on 2008/12/29 17:15:45 (3940 reads) News by the same author
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As absolute proof that miracles do happen over Christmas, Hitman/Code HQ does what even he thought was impossible and actually releases Allegro for OS4!

I thought it would be a relatively small project but it turned out to be a terribly complex game library and not small at all. Add to that periods of laziness, busyness, drunkeness, being on holiday, an unhealthy Guitar Hero addiction and the fact that my boss actually makes me work 8 hours a day on non Amiga things, and we have a port that takes 18 months instead of 18 weeks.


But here it is. No MIDI suport yet and small pieces of less used functionality are missing, but it's good enough for a 1.0 release to open the doors for some games to be ported.

On that subject there are 4 release games!

Sword of Fargoal - One of my favourite games on the c64! It was worth porting Allegro just for this one.

Ghouls 'n' Ghosts Remix - No need to explain this one.

Alex the Allegator 4 - An old skool platformer.

Zombiepox - A bit odd. With brains.

As well as the games, you will need to download the Allegro runtime shared object. For developers who want to port new games you will also need the Allegro SDK.

http://os4depot.net/index.php?functio ... =library/misc/allegro.lha
http://os4depot.net/index.php?functio ... ment/game/allegro_sdk.lha


http://os4depot.net/index.php?functio ... laying/swordoffargoal.lha
http://os4depot.net/index.php?functio ... ile=game/platform/ggr.lha
http://os4depot.net/index.php?functio ... game/action/zombiepox.lha
http://os4depot.net/index.php?functio ... e=game/platform/alex4.lha

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Troels
Published: 2008/12/29 17:34  Updated: 2008/12/29 17:34
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 Re: Allegro for OS4 1.0 released
Thanks Colin!
At least they are all good excuses
Rudei
Published: 2008/12/29 17:44  Updated: 2008/12/29 17:44
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 Re: Allegro for OS4 1.0 released
Yay!

Good work, saw this at MAG Bash at liked what I saw.
Merry Xmas & Happy New Year!

Rude!
TiredOfLife
Published: 2008/12/29 17:54  Updated: 2008/12/29 17:54
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Excellent work.

Many thanks.
nubechecorre
Published: 2008/12/29 17:58  Updated: 2008/12/29 17:58
Just can't stay away
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 Re: Allegro for OS4 1.0 released
Thanks
Skov
Published: 2008/12/29 20:10  Updated: 2008/12/29 20:10
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Joined: 12/01/2006
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Well done! Let's see some software ported! :)
Ruud
Published: 2008/12/29 22:10  Updated: 2008/12/29 22:10
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Good stuff! I'll try out the release games.
nubechecorre
Published: 2008/12/29 23:38  Updated: 2008/12/29 23:38
Just can't stay away
Joined: 11/24/2006
From: Sanremo
Comments: 1917
 Re: Allegro for OS4 1.0 released
They all run fine on my SamEP440, only GGR freezes my system after quitting.. btw the library runs fine to be the first release
fjudde
Published: 2008/12/31 12:08  Updated: 2008/12/31 12:08
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From: Stockholm, Sweden
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 Re: Allegro for OS4 1.0 released
I guess spotUP has been wating for this moment.

http://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/ ... ost_id=8690#forumpost8690

Upload records are about to be broken?
Balis
Published: 2008/12/31 15:11  Updated: 2008/12/31 15:11
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GGR works fine here (SAM) and no GR at all.
spotUP
Published: 2008/12/31 17:20  Updated: 2008/12/31 17:20
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 Re: Allegro for OS4 1.0 released
@fjudde, you bet. this long time of being drunk is starting to get to me....

and you know what, day 512, spotUP is STILL drunk! And I will be for some days to come, i will be home in 3-4 days, sober up, and start the porting!

thanx hitman for finally releasing it, and allowing me to get sober again!

i wonder how it will feel, 1.5 years as a bum, dunno if i dare to go dry... :P
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