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Celebrating 20 years of Allegro.CC |
Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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Did you guys know this is Allegro.cc's 20th anniversary year? I don't know the exact date but this is a good time to celebrate it. Cheers!!! Beers!!! {"name":"612062","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/5\/b\/5b1e10d1c787e4972ab4ea1f8dde22d6.jpg","w":400,"h":400,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/5\/b\/5b1e10d1c787e4972ab4ea1f8dde22d6"} My Website! | EAGLE GUI Library Demos | My Deviant Art Gallery | Spiraloid Preview | A4 FontMaker | Skyline! (Missile Defense) Eagle and Allegro 5 binaries | Older Allegro 4 and 5 binaries | Allegro 5 compile guide |
Peter Hull
Member #1,136
March 2001
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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...
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jmasterx
Member #11,410
October 2009
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20 years in about a month My 10 year anniversary as an a.cc member is coming up in October Agui GUI API -> https://github.com/jmasterx/Agui |
Peter Hull
Member #1,136
March 2001
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@edgar there's always a clue for those who look
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Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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Gentleman, witness the beginning of all life on the internet as we know it :
[AL] Allegro.cc Suggestions Hello, I'll be starting work on http://www.allegro.cc later this week, and I would Please send comments/questions/flame to matthew@..., as I check that -Matthew Leverton
My Website! | EAGLE GUI Library Demos | My Deviant Art Gallery | Spiraloid Preview | A4 FontMaker | Skyline! (Missile Defense) Eagle and Allegro 5 binaries | Older Allegro 4 and 5 binaries | Allegro 5 compile guide |
GullRaDriel
Member #3,861
September 2003
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MDR ^^
"Code is like shit - it only smells if it is not yours" |
Rodolfo Lam
Member #16,045
August 2015
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Cheers guys! Do your think the Supreme Looser will make a special appearance around here to celebrate?
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Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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He's just waiting for the red carpet... {"name":"51Niot+AJDL._US500_.jpg","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/f\/4\/f49a3c23f9077170cb7560154d7a0bd9.jpg","w":500,"h":500,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/f\/4\/f49a3c23f9077170cb7560154d7a0bd9"} My Website! | EAGLE GUI Library Demos | My Deviant Art Gallery | Spiraloid Preview | A4 FontMaker | Skyline! (Missile Defense) Eagle and Allegro 5 binaries | Older Allegro 4 and 5 binaries | Allegro 5 compile guide |
Niunio
Member #1,975
March 2002
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I'm feeling too old right now... ----------------- |
Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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Niunio, you're not old, you're experienced. My Website! | EAGLE GUI Library Demos | My Deviant Art Gallery | Spiraloid Preview | A4 FontMaker | Skyline! (Missile Defense) Eagle and Allegro 5 binaries | Older Allegro 4 and 5 binaries | Allegro 5 compile guide |
DanielH
Member #934
January 2001
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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. |
gillius
Member #119
April 2000
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I believe was around for the Allegro Depot. And when Allegro.cc started I was one of the first to sign up. So I don't think it's been 20 years. My profile says 2000. My guess before I checked was 1999 when Allegro.cc started, but I feel like my signup date is probably within a month or two of Allegro.cc starting... EDIT: I see the above mails from Matt in 1999. But I figure there was some delay from that point to when development was done? Gillius |
Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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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 My Website! | EAGLE GUI Library Demos | My Deviant Art Gallery | Spiraloid Preview | A4 FontMaker | Skyline! (Missile Defense) Eagle and Allegro 5 binaries | Older Allegro 4 and 5 binaries | Allegro 5 compile guide |
Peter Hull
Member #1,136
March 2001
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I'm going to celebrate by looking back at some of the games on the Allegro depot.
So I am going with The Pickles; hopefully I will be able to run it in Wine or whatever Anyone care to join me?
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Niunio
Member #1,975
March 2002
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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. Edgar Reynaldo said: Niunio, you're not old, you're experienced. You sweet-talker... ----------------- |
LennyLen
Member #5,313
December 2004
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I think the first A.cc account I had would have been around 1999/2000. But then I didn't have any internet access for a couple of years and I forgot all the details, so I created this account. I think I started using Allegro in '98. I remember printing a hard copy of the reference manual on the printer at a place where I was working doing Y2K compliance testing.
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dthompson
Member #5,749
April 2005
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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. ______________________________________________________ |
Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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I didn't discover Allegro until 4.0 in 2006. I thought it was the coolest thing since jello shots. Been using it ever since. My Website! | EAGLE GUI Library Demos | My Deviant Art Gallery | Spiraloid Preview | A4 FontMaker | Skyline! (Missile Defense) Eagle and Allegro 5 binaries | Older Allegro 4 and 5 binaries | Allegro 5 compile guide |
bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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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. -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
GullRaDriel
Member #3,861
September 2003
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I was a lurker here long before being a member. Edit, fixed typo (well, I think so) "Code is like shit - it only smells if it is not yours" |
MiquelFire
Member #3,110
January 2003
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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. --- |
Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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DJGPP came with Game Programming All in One, all in all a terrible book, but it introduced me to compilers and allegro... My Website! | EAGLE GUI Library Demos | My Deviant Art Gallery | Spiraloid Preview | A4 FontMaker | Skyline! (Missile Defense) Eagle and Allegro 5 binaries | Older Allegro 4 and 5 binaries | Allegro 5 compile guide |
GullRaDriel
Member #3,861
September 2003
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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. "Code is like shit - it only smells if it is not yours" |
Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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Peter Hull said:
I'm going to celebrate by looking back at some of the games on the Allegro depot. Some of my favorites are (in no particular order) :
and I saw this one that I'm going to give a whirl : My Website! | EAGLE GUI Library Demos | My Deviant Art Gallery | Spiraloid Preview | A4 FontMaker | Skyline! (Missile Defense) Eagle and Allegro 5 binaries | Older Allegro 4 and 5 binaries | Allegro 5 compile guide |
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