SDL or Allegro?
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Re: SDL or Allegro?
I just built my first game ( Pong clone, no segfault w00t! ) in SDL. It is actually the first API i've worked with so far so I have very limited perspective, but I found it really easy to work with. I did a little work with Allegro ( tried some tiling, blitting and display options ) and watched Lusikka's YouTube tutorials, but I like SDL more.
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Re: SDL or Allegro?
Actually, i'm sorry, I re-read your post a couple of times, and I did quote you out of context, but at the time, I genuinely thought that's what you were implying.You are quoting me out of context. As I said before, I just wanted to point out that there is more than SDL and Allegro.
As for using SDL as your first, I think it's a pretty good approach to take, no where as near as complicated as OpenGL, it brings everything together, and it isn't hard to use at all.
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Re: SDL or Allegro?
Thou shalt be forgivenprogrammerinprogress wrote: Actually, i'm sorry, I re-read your post a couple of times, and I did quote you out of context, but at the time, I genuinely thought that's what you were implying.
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Re: SDL or Allegro?
Not quite sure what the difference is between sdl and allegro. it looks like it does everything that sdl does, but i think i saw someone say that allegro doesnt have a wrapper for opengl. so it must handle graphics pretty well. maybe one's easier to learn that the other?