How do you know that?

[edit] I vaguely remember the Allegro Game Depot (AGD) that came before, it was run by Barry Gillhespy but AFAICS no trace remains...
[edit2] https://sourceforge.net/p/alleg/mailman/message/15723825/
https://sourceforge.net/p/alleg/mailman/message/14881234/

20 years in about a month
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My 10 year anniversary as an a.cc member is coming up in October

Gentleman, witness the beginning of all life on the internet as we know it :

Cheers guys! Do your think the Supreme Looser will make a special appearance around here to celebrate?

I'm feeling too old right now...

Anyone around from the old Allegro Depot days before Allegro.cc?

I think I was using Allegro 2.2 and I used to visit the Allegro Depot back around '96 or '97. Never contributed, but would download some cool stuff

Anyone remember Boboli or Myrmidon?

Then one day it redirected to Allegro.cc.

you generally copyright something the year you start working on it so really it is the 20th year anniversary or at least it will be by December 31st 2019 at the latest.

And oh yeah I bet the new catchphrase will be party like it's 2020 vision

I really don't remember when I discovered Allegro. Despite my profile says 2002, I think I was using Allegro a couple of years before that. I remember I was writing my own MS-DOS VGA code and I was looking for information about how to play sound when I found Allegro 3.

I think I still have my code for Borland Turbo C.

You sweet-talker...

I discovered Allegro after noticing quite a few of the games I played in the DOS (and early Win9x) era were using it. Happyland Adventures was one of the bigger culprits; once I'd pushed the limits of the level editor, coding was the obvious next step.

I discovered Allegro because a friend in college, Samuel H, was using it at a computer next to mine! Around 2005 or 2006. He showed me how to download it and install it in Windows. Which was very interesting to me because it was a manual installation process.

Back then the A.cc message boards were super busy with programming and off-topic threads. I joined up to participate, mostly asking C++ questions trying to make sense of what they taught us in college. And in fact, it wasn't until Allegro community members started to correct some ideas I had about C++ that I realized that my college had done a pretty poor job of teaching it to me. I was interested in understanding how games are made, and potentially making my own, but it never really fully clicked. Maybe because I lack knowledge, or because my imagination is visual, but my skills are not.

I learned a lot from the experienced programmers here. And they also taught me lots about the world. It used to be a very good resource for having public debates with smart people.

I found out about Allegro when I somehow found out about DJGPP. Allegro 3.12

I know it was around 2000 I found Allegro, I just can't remember what led me to find DJGPP in the first place now.

A school friend who was already coding was bored to see me coding, or I harassed him too much. Either way he taught me the basics, and these were the times of dos and Rhide/DJGPP.
I remember the demos CDs with sources included, the LAN parties, Carmageddon, Duke Nukem Doom and Shadow Warrior ^^ ( I have to mention Pacman & Dstroy, a dos bomberman that you could play with 4 people at the same time on one or two keyboard )
And I had to save a lot at that time to buy myself a 3DFX Voodoo card, which was the best with glide enabled games.
Then came Half Life, and The Fourth Coming, and many mores !
I had to hide when connecting to THE internet, with a 56k modem and a 10 meters long cable that I was deploying when everyone was asleep. It was monopolizing the line and forbidden by my parents, so I had to do it in the nights.
I do not miss the days. I consider myself lucky to have learn computing in the old days, with old geeks, nearly at the beginning.
IT people those days are too lightly taught IMO. They've lost the art of optimizing and making good portable and reusable code to the arts of merchandising and virtualisation. Remember, we can put all the memory/cpu/disk they ask, why not ? It's virtual (I'm ironic here in case you didn't noticed).
All the bullshit said to sell a product nowadays... All those fake AIs that are just stats and a big if else roll.
I still manage to craft old good compiled code at work. I guess the need for speed is still sometimes winning against the tech sellers and all the lobbying. Thanks to the users feedback too.
Well, today isn't bad either. We have a ton of good and cheap ($) hardware. And coming from where we come, nothing is really scary for us !
And I learnt a lot coming here and on IRC, talking to you all. I also thank you for that.