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