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Title: FPC and Allegro
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| 1 | + | ## Introduction | |
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| 3 | + | **Allegro** is a cross-platform library mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming. It handles common, low-level tasks such as creating windows, accepting user input, loading data, drawing images, playing sounds, etc. and generally abstracting away the underlying platform. However, Allegro is *not* a [[Game Engine|game engine]]: it is a [[Game framework|game framework]] you are free to design and structure your program as you like. | |
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| 5 | + | Allegro 5 has the following additional features: | |
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| 7 | + | - Supported on Windows, Linux, macOS, iPhone and Android. | |
| 8 | + | - User-friendly, intuitive C API usable from many languages. | |
| 9 | + | - Hardware accelerated bitmap and graphical primitive drawing support (via OpenGL or Direct3D). | |
| 10 | + | - Audio recording support. | |
| 11 | + | - Font loading and drawing. | |
| 12 | + | - Video playback. | |
| 13 | + | - Abstractions over shaders and low-level polygon drawing. | |
| 14 | + | - And more! | |
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| 16 | + | To use Allegro with Free Pascal you need the [Allegro.pas wrapper](http://allegro-pas.sf.net/). | |
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| 18 | + | ## Vivace tutorial | |
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| 20 | + | *Allegro Vivace* is a tutorial used by Allegro beginners for years to being introduced to it. The latest version is [here](https://github.com/liballeg/allegro_wiki/wiki/Allegro-Vivace) and I've decided to translate it to Pascal ([with permission](https://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/618042/1044890#target)). | |
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| 22 | + | The tutorial is in the project webpage, [here](http://allegro-pas.sourceforge.net/tutorials/vivace/). | |
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| 24 | + | ## See also | |
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| 26 | + | - [[Game framework]] | |
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| 28 | + | ## Links | |
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| 30 | + | - [Project page](http://allegro-pas.sourceforge.net/) | |
| 31 | + | - [Downloading](https://sourceforge.net/projects/allegro-pas/files/) | |
| 32 | + | - [Online documentation](http://allegro-pas.sourceforge.net/docs/) | |
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| 35 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "FPC and Allegro", as it stood on 2020-03-24 after a change by Ñuño Martínez, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* | |
| 36 | + | Category: Game Development | |
| 37 | + | Category: Games | |
| 38 | + | Category: Graphics |