Since we've all been here so long, I figure ML could give us some kind of titles. You know, like nobility, since we've been freedom fighters for allegro.cc since the day we downloaded Allegro 3.9.11 cough well me anyway cough

So I want my title to be Major Reynaldo. Titles are available on first come first serve basis. Vote for the title you want now, by reply to this thread.^[1].

I want my title to be Red Dude.

Oh, kids these days that think 2007 is a long time ago I was a member before a.cc existed , if you count Allegro Games Depot.

Yes, but you've been mysteriously silent for decades now....

EDIT
AND, you didn't specify your new title.

I'm an American we rejected titles of nobility when we declared independence in 1776.

But in reality I'm just not creative enough to think of a title .

I've not been silent for decades. I just post SUPER rarely now . If you remember a year or two ago I was working on jalleg. These days I would be even more interested in seeing if Allegro can be made to work with GraalVM's native compilation mode -- instant start up + no JRE required + still can use Java. But I haven't quite figured out how it bridges to C code unless that C code was in LLVM, in which case the foreign function interface disappears apparently so there is zero-overhead calls between C and Java.

I'm more interested in Ruby + Eagle + Allegro on my own end. That's one of my goals anyway. Runtime allegro interpreter. Ooh yeah. Talk about awesome sandbox.

Well one of my motives for jalleg was that providing it also then supports any other languages on JVM such as JS, which of course you could type in and now it's totally dynamic and a more mainstream approach than using lua. And of course there are Ruby implementations on JVM, so with jalleg you could do Ruby + Eagle + Allegro today. I don't know the full extent of the quality of Ruby implementations on JVM though.

EDIT: a link to the most popular one that I know of: https://www.jruby.org/

What's the latest release of jalleg, gillius?

Wow I guess I did jalleg farther back than I thought.

The latest version of jalleg deployed to Maven Central (public package repo) is 0.1. Most changes since then is the docs (which is seen on github page) and JDK 11 building support. There are getting started docs here:

https://github.com/gillius/jalleg

The latest runtime I've pushed is 5.2.3. I only push Allegro runtimes for Windows x86. If you are running on Linux, you just need to have allegro installed on your ld_path (i.e. liballegro.so) as you would for any normal C-based app.

I wouldn't worry about the version number. I believe I mapped virtually all of the functions of Allegro.

You can see what I've mapped here: https://github.com/gillius/jalleg/blob/master/jalleg-binding/BindingStatus.md

You can see example Java program on that page. Since JRuby runs in JVM you can call Java code. I don't know what its equivalent is for importing, but if you import AllegroLibrary class, the static methods on that class it should look as much as possible like the C code.

I do provide an optional jalleg-framework component which can be used to make it more friendly in an object-oriented and managed/garbage collected environment.

I have pong clone examples using the raw "C" API and using jalleg-framework.

I guess I'm just a purist. I like C++. Java gives me nightmares about callbacks.

The callbacks work in jalleg just as well as in C. They just call Java methods, not C ones. With Java 8+ lamdbas the callbacks even can look like inline functions like what you'd see in JavaScript.

Although I am realizing now you can't use Eagle out of the box, since it would be a separate C library. You'd have to provide a JNA binding to Eagle. However, JNA maps to C fairly easily, basically the hard part is that you need to manually convert the header or use a tool like JNAerator which takes header files, but as you know in C, header files can be a little tricky since they rely on a lot of external context, the class ultimately just has a bunch of native methods like so:

  public static native void al_draw_bitmap(ALLEGRO_BITMAP bitmap, float dx, float dy, int flags);
  public static native void al_draw_bitmap_region(ALLEGRO_BITMAP bitmap, float sx, float sy, float sw, float sh, float dx, float dy, int flags);
  public static native void al_draw_scaled_bitmap(ALLEGRO_BITMAP bitmap, float sx, float sy, float sw, float sh, float dx, float dy, float dw, float dh, int flags);

If you just have functions with primitives and callbacks it's not too bad but if you get into structs or a large number of functions, the tool may be worth using. To build the mapping for Allegro I ran the tool on each header file one at a time then did some cleanup (there can be different choices for how to map things) and pasted and merged into one file.

Also, I'm putting in a vote for

Colonel Kalliokoski

Maybe that should be :

Kolonel KallioKoski

I think I requested "Village Idiot" once. Is it still available? As for my project, I am treating a serious case of writer's block with a healthy dose of Final Fantasy on a Nintendo emulator.

Almost Always Right

I think it's probably best to leave said titles up to ML. If we were to permit just anything now it could seriously taint the perceived quality of content here. The whole point of the title was that it was special. They didn't always mean something meaningful, but the fact that not just anybody could post something there made it meaningful in itself.

The fact that the site is dying might make it even more important that we not add titles now. Anybody who happens upon the archives, lucky devils, might be confused by context if our titles are misleading.

Append

Me too! I lost my first account though. I have mostly been lurking all these years, and I will continue to do so until the end. This place is so much nostalgia for me...

Senior Contributor

That's been said for a very long time now, yet, we're still here.

As for titles, despite being from old Europe, I do not want one. Only losers need titles.

I already have a title!

We all know your real name is Arthur KallioKosKi. ^{note the KKK}

Oh, and if you don't want a new title, make it a new account name then. But keep the old account.

We're all doing to die anyway.

Why did Edgar get his title and not the rest of us?

ML, you okay hun?

Dreams really do come true!

Don't expect it to be filled, because I suppose it's a lot, but I wish my name on here were "Erin Bolyard" or, preferably, "Erin Maus" (the latter is what I've been in the process of changing to BUT CORONA has definitely nuked that for now).

(ItsyRealm's website uses Erin Maus and I'm working on updating my portfolio to do the same depending on the URL you hit it at).

I like my member number, it's a reminder that I and bambams are eternal nemeses. (Just jostling).

Did you notice Arthur Kalliokoski was named second in command, or have I not noticed it before?

Ask and ye shall receive. Matthew resurrected this thread, so put in your votes now...

You did not notice it before.

I still want my Senior Contributor title

ML is not the type to just give you what you want. You've done a lot to keep this site active and this community useful so perhaps you've earned your title.

All that I've done is conquer everybody that ever dared debate me. There's no prize for that.

Major Reynaldo Hahaha ^^

And for once the darkest of all, our dear great Dictator, the famous MattyMatt Leverton made an appearance.

I'm amazed, I should have come before. People do not realize what is it to be confined with the family and still have to work.

Take care of yourselves. I'll be back from times to times (when the children are asleep ^^)

I want to be The Allegro Campidoctor.

I'm just going to remain lurking in the shadows.

Hey I remember you

You have to earn your title.

Can I be Doctor?

Dr. Amarillion

"You know, it's amazing how many super villains have advanced degrees." -- Sheldon

You'll need to spend 6 years in evil medical school.

I contributed a 20,000 line Gui api that was used in a popular game and supported that api on these forums for years, what more could one want

jmasterx, you do go unappreciated around here.... (((((((((

Therefore I proclaim your title to be Senior GUI Contributor. Matthew, if you please jmasterx has earned this title in my humble opinion.

I'm good with that

I think it should be more fun. These titles are often tongue in cheek. Senior Gooey perhaps.

I'm good with Edgar's suggestion or:
Senior Gooey
Senior Gooey Guy
Senior Gooey Dood
A Gooey Guy

or some variant.

How about Generally Useful Informant?

Was this Factorio?

Indeed it was!

Sure