Using Allegro

See readme.txt for a general introduction, copyright details, and information about how to install Allegro and link your program with it.

install_allegro - Initialise the Allegro library.
allegro_init - Macro to initialise the Allegro library.
allegro_exit - Closes down the Allegro system.
END_OF_MAIN - Macro to put after your main() function.
allegro_id - String containing date and version number of Allegro.
allegro_error - Stores the last Allegro error message.
ALLEGRO_VERSION - Defined to the major version of Allegro.
ALLEGRO_SUB_VERSION - Defined to the middle version of Allegro.
ALLEGRO_WIP_VERSION - Defined to the minor version of Allegro.
ALLEGRO_VERSION_STR - Defined to a string with the full Allegro version number.
ALLEGRO_DATE_STR - Defined to a string with the year Allegro was released.
ALLEGRO_DATE - Defined to a number with the release date of Allegro.
AL_ID - Converts four 8 bit values to a packed 32 bit integer ID.
MAKE_VERSION - Create a 32 bit integer from the Allegro version
os_type - Stores the detected type of the OS.
os_version
os_revision - Version of the OS currently running.
os_multitasking - Indicates if the OS is multitasking.
allegro_message - Used mainly to show error messages to users.
set_window_title - Sets the window title of the Allegro program.
set_close_button_callback - Handles the user clicking on the close button of the window.
desktop_color_depth - Finds out the desktop color depth.
get_desktop_resolution - Finds out the desktop resolution.
check_cpu - Detects the CPU type.
cpu_vendor - Contains the CPU vendor name.
cpu_family - Contains the CPU type.
cpu_model - Contains the Intel CPU submodel.
cpu_capabilities - Contains the capability flags of the CPU.

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Using Allegro