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Allegro is a portable library mainly aimed at video game and multimedia
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programming, originally started by Shawn Hargreaves for the DJGPP compiler
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in a mixture of C and assembler.
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According to the Oxford Companion to Music, Allegro is the Italian for
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"quick, lively, bright". It is also a recursive acronym which stands for
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"Allegro Low LEvel Game ROutines".
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Cross-platform support
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o Dos (DJGPP, Watcom)
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o Unix (Linux, *BSD, Irix, Solaris, Darwin)
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o Windows (MSVC, MinGW, Cygwin, Borland)
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o BeOS
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o QNX
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o MacOS X
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