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The library is written in, and designed to be used with, the C programming language. A sample non-interactive program can be found at Sierpinski triangle/Image credits; a sample interactive program can be found at the allegro home page, listed below. The simple, interactive demo is a basic Asteroids clone with the source open for viewing.

The library comes with full source code and is free software, using a simple permissive license which allows copying, modification and distribution for any purpose. Along with the source code, it comes with countless examples, so that even someone with hardly any video game programming knowledge can study the examples and come up with a simple video game in no time flat.

The community of Allegro users have contributed several library extensions to handle scrolling tile maps, import and export various file formats, and even connect to OpenGL.

Various games using Allegro:

• UFO2000
• Zelda ClassicZelda Classic began as a DOS clone of the Original The Legend of Zelda, which came out for the NES in 1986. It is more than the original however, in that it also includes a program called ZQuest which is used to edit game files to create entirely new game
• KraptorKraptor is an open source shoot 'em up scroller video game, similar to the old game Raptor. External Links .

See also Simple DirectMedia LayerSimple DirectMedia Layer SDL is a library that creates an abstraction over various platforms' graphics, sound, and input APIs, allowing a developer to write a computer game or other multimedia application once and run it on Linux, Windows, Mac OS, BeOS an, AllegroGL , DirectXDirectX is a collection of APIs for easily handling tasks related to game programming on Microsoft Windows. It is most widely used in the development of video and computer games for Windows. The DirectX SDK is available for free from Microsoft. The Direct, OpenGL, ClanLibClanLib is a cross platform C++ game SDK, currently supporting Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. External links . and OpenMLOpen Media Layer OpenML OpenML is a free, cross-platform programming environment designed by the Khronos Group for capturing, transporting, processing, displaying, and synchronizing digital media (2D and 3D graphics, audio and video processing, I/O, and n.

1 Rumors

• Allegro5 (A5) was jokingly thought to have among other things MindControl, Lemmings, and PHPFor the "PHP" Cold-war history project, see Parallel History Project. PHP (a recursive acronym for P HP: H ypertext P reprocessor") is a widely-used open-source programming language primarily for server-side applications and developing dynamic web content support.