Re: SDL or Allegro?

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 14:03:48 +1300, Peter Ashford wrote:

> It wasn't an argument, it was a question.

Surely you're not implying that you didn't know the answer!  Rhetorical
questions are just like arguments, but this is all irrelevant.  The fact
is that the commercial release of games using SDL does not say anything
about Allegro other than it is not as popular.

For what it's worth, I hate Allegro with a completely nonsensical passion
and would choose SDL over it any day... not just because I hate Allegro,
but because I find SDL to be intuitive and useful.  All I'm saying is that
the commercial games angle shouldn't really matter when discussing the
quality of an API.  There are *more* commercial games using direct VGA
access than there are using SDL... but there are a few thousand other
things to take into consideration.

What the argument (yes, argument) *does* do is proves that SDL is a viable
option for commercial games.  Evidence on whether Allegro is a viable
option or not is not yet available.