Re: [AD] What about BeAllegro?

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Angelo Mottola <a.mottola@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was just wondering if anyone is still working on the Allegro BeOS port. It
> would be cool to have it up to date as the other ports... Things still missing
> are a MIDI driver and a windowed gfx driver (would be cool, but not really
> needed)

There is a very incomplete windowed driver here

      http://www.alphalink.com.au/~tjaden/dev/beos-windowed.diff.gz

if you want to hack on it.  Don't know about the MIDI driver.

> I'd like to help, but I don't know multi-threading programming, and it looks
> like BeAllegro gfx driver uses threads and semaphores a lot...

Don't worry about it :-)  I'm sure any bugs will get picked up
eventually.  Of course, reading some introductory information (e.g.
from the BeBook) helps.

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