That's right: no beta, no Release Candidate. This is the real thing.

Grab it from the download page. Binary packages for Windows and MacOS X will be available in the course of the week.

Missing from the archive is the new demo game (the old 4.0 demo is in the archive). This will be available shortly as a seperate download and will replace the old one in 4.2.1.

Apart from the usual request that people start using it and report and help fixing problems (not too many, we hope), I think it would be nice if there was a short guide that goes over the differences (feature-wise) between 4.0 and 4.2. I can probably write one myself, but if someone wants to volunteer to do it that would be great.

Many thanks to all the people who have contributed to Allegro in one way or another. This would never have happened without any of you or the support from the a.cc community. Cheers people!

Great news!

Well done everyone that's contributed to this. Thanks for all your efforts.

Seems to be working fine in FC4.

Finally a "stable" release and not something with a name which scares the newcomers...

Works perfectly for me! The downside is that now I need to get the precompiled versions of 4.2 for all platforms for OL 2.0...

Compiled and installed correctly under Ubuntu 5.10. Will check all the other builds later, installing a qemu with DSL to see if I can compile it there as well.

Great! The strange thing is, that I found an info about 4.2 coming at some other site (warsztat.pac.pl to be specific) before allegro.cc. Isn't that strange?

EDIT: Too much "strange" here. Little advice: beer + posting = shame

Congratulations evert, elias, peter, peter, grzegorz, dennis, chris and all the others

Compiled and "worked" under Qemu+DSL. Lack of X dev support forced it to work with VGA, but at least the demo worked "flawlessly".

C:\Documents and Settings\student\Desktop\allegro>make install
make[3]: Entering directory `C:/Documents and Settings/student/Desktop/allegro'
misc/mdhelper.sh C:/dev-cpp/lib C:/dev-cpp/include C:/dev-cpp/include/allegro C
/dev-cpp/include/allegro/platform C:/dev-cpp/include/allegro/internal C:/dev-cp
/include/allegro/inline
sh: C:\Documents: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [create-install-dirs] Error 127
make[3]: Leaving directory `C:/Documents and Settings/student/Desktop/allegro'

Maybe mdhelper.sh should get the files surrounded in quotes? Solution for now: move allegro to a directory that doesnt contain spaces.

Ahh, ReyBrujo... my brain slowly churned into action and recalled something about using "mingw32-make" to build instead of just "make". I'm doing this now, and have built the regular and debug libs... now working on the static-linked. Maybe this is documented somewhere, but I didn't see it during my casual perusal of the build docs anyway.

These demos had a rather odd effect on this Win2k Pro Service pack 4 machine
Specs: Intel Pent 4 1.6 GHZ, 523,280KB RAM
The restrictions on this computer wont let me see what kind of GFX card it has... is there an allegro program that will tell you this? Its a LCD monitor.

excolmap
excustom
exfire
exdbuf
exflip
exfont
exhello
.. and maybe some more

ones that i tested and look ok:
exkeys (and all the ones that are earlier lexigraphicaly and aren't in the above list)

Problem description:
The screen is nudged up slightly with a small bar of black inbetween the bottom of allegro's 'screen' and the bottom edge of the screen. Below this bar there is what looks what should be at the top of the monitor. The screen also appears nudged to the left with a black bar appearing on the right and the left side of the screen getting cut off.

Hypothesis: Looks like something to that changes based on the resolution of the screen maybe? Maybe theres a flaw in win2k's direct x drivers?

Edit:
It was my own fault it wasn't working, half my project was compiled with 4.0 and the other half 4.2

Wouldn't that just take care of the paths to msvc?