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2005-05-23Removed trailing white-space.rillig1-4/+4
2004-04-05Initial import of allegro-4.1.13 from pkgsrc-wip, Initial work byxtraeme1-0/+16
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