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From:	malyon AT netcom DOT com (Restiana Jade)
Subject:	Re: Future of Allegro (?)
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Date:	Sat, 16 Nov 1996 23:28:42 GMT
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Ben Darnell (bdarnell AT vnet DOT net) wrote:
: gt4558a AT acmex DOT gatech DOT edu (Rubicant) was overheard mumbling
: incoherently about Future of Allegro (?):

: >2)  More importantly, Allegro is basically stuck where it is.  Mind you,
: >it's got ALOT of functionality and great features as it is, but for it to
: >remain as is is a shame.  What do the rest of you think of someone
: >temporarily taking over the maintanance of Allegro till we hear from Shawn
: >again?  I can't do it personally (Shawn was a much better coder than I
: >currently am), but I do think it would be beneficial - Allegro is quite
: >popular and useful.  Would anyone be interested in making unofficial
: >Allegro releases?  Do any of you think that Shawn would mind?  (I'm
: >guessing not)

: I volunteer to take over the maintainance.  I don't have time to add
: many new features, but I can upload new versions so we don't have to
: hear about bank.s anymore ;).  In fact, I'll be uploading a new
: version to x2ftp in a few minutes.  If anyone has any proposals for
: new features, email me.

  A bugfix release, at least, would be nice. Here's a list of the bugs 
that I'm aware of:

* bank.s has two instructions that are invalid under the new GAS syntax.

* If you do something to reconfigure the screen (I don't remember what)
the mouse pointer's bounding box doesn't get updated.

* There's a limit to the size of the bitmap (something like 180x180) that 
you can pass to rotate_sprite() and get correct results. This isn't a bug 
as such (it's a limitation of the fixed point format), but it should be 
mentioned in the documentation.

* The "fix" class is missing a few things. It doesn't have ++ or -- 
operators, and if you use unsigned int with some of the functions you get 
an error about an ambiguous conversion. This is kind of a hassle, because 
I actually use those things.

* There's something wrong with the sound sample playback code. On my 
computer it makes popping noises come from the speaker, and eventually 
the system crashes.

  Anyone know of any others?

(This is a great library, BTW, and I'd like to see someone pick it up and 
continue developing it if Shawn is too busy now to do it.)

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