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Allegro is a cross-platform library mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming. It handles common, low-level tasks such as creating windows, accepting user input, loading data, drawing images, playing sounds, etc. and generally abstracting away the underlying platform.
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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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This is the legacy 4.x branch, for the current version see devel/allegro5.
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