does anyone know how you can take the current game and save it into the disc for the player to continue later???
I'm a new programmer and these things are very confusing to me.???

What are you coding in?

I'm coding in allegro.
I havent learned anything else yet. I want something similar to the zelda save type.

FILE* f=open_file_for_writing();
write_gamestate_to_file(f);
close(f);

Now you simply have to fill in the first two functions
First should open a file for writing. You have to generate a filename. How you do it is up to you.
Second function writes all the important information to that file. Important information is stuff like player and enemy positions, their actions, score and other statistics.

Loading goes exactly the same, only instead of writing to file you read from it

is there any source code i could look at as a resource, it seems to be the best way for me to learn.

Keep in mind there is no save_game() function, just like there isn't any play_game() or make_my_game_the_most_popular_game(). You've setup your game, you know what needs to be set to make things occur, you just need to write functions to store it and load it from an external file. Maybe you could start with your initilization functions to give you some direction. Perhaps you set "score" to 0 in the initilization function, well, you probably don't have 0 in the saved game.

Wow, I don't get it.

...It wont write to file??
what am I doing wrong?

Edit:
FILE* save_1;
it says that there should be a constructor or destuctor before the * symbol.

fopen
fwrite
fclose

^- click on those links and read the documentation

Sweet, got it.

Thanx alot.;D

EDIT:

Can anyone show me an example using these because when I tried to write to the file and then read from it it only says 0.
here's the code.

Use the code tags! And why do you have END_OF_FUNCTION after everything?

ouch...
You should check the return value of fopen to see if it even succeeded.
You should decide if you want text files or binary files:
- text: save with fprintf(), read with...for example: fscanf() or gets()
- binary:
. open the file with "rb" on reading and "wb" on writing,
. save with fwrite((address of an integer),sizeof(int),1, save1)
. load with fread((address of an integer), sizeof(int), 1, load1)

What you need to do is learn how to read and understand manuals.

For example, see fread:

size_t fread(void *buffer, size_t size, size_t number, FILE *file);

Description

This function reads size*number characters from file to buffer.

Return Value

The number of items of size size read, or less if there was an error.

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What you're trying to do is making absolutely no sense. Programming isn't like scrap booking. You cannot just copy and paste from this and that example, rename a few variables, and think that anything will work like what you are imagining.

return fread(load1,sizeof(int),w,stdin);

Examine what you are doing with what the manual says to do.

Here's somewhat of an example that may help you...

You also probably do not know what stdin is. stdin is a special variable (of type FILE* or _iobuf*, although those are basically the same thing, I think) that reads user input. Similarly, stdout is a special variable that outputs stuff, such as writing to the console screen.

Thanks alot, I understand now.