Elysian Shadows

Doom 3 source code has just been released!
https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl

It does focus more graphics than the SDL api, which is what makes lazyfoo's tutorials so good.

Sweet. I am glad you got it working.

I have nothing against lazyfoo, it is a excellent site to learn SDL and only SDL.
My only problem is the he does it with bad programming habits

Here is another good SDL tutorial site:( where I learned SDL ) http://iki.fi/sol/gp/

Are the SDL libs compiled for VS or mingw?
I am sure that makes a difference.

Some things to try:

Call SDL_GetError() and see if it gives you any more info
Or implicitly call SDL_UpdateRects( screen, 0, 0, 0, 0 ) which is what SDL_Flp is doing.

I really dont see anything wrong with your load_files() function. Have you checked the return value? Your problem could also reside in the load_image() function. It is almost always better to use asset() statements to determine if you are dealling with a NULL pointer. One other thought: Since you cr...

Ok well I've been following lazyfoo.net but I just can't do the "event driven programming" tutorial so here's my code, what is it that I am doing wrong? load_files() keeps returning 2 for me? im using Code::Blocks IDE and GCC compiler if that helps //Headers #include "SDL/SDL.h"...

I would suggest SDL over allegro, much better documentation and a really good dev community.