Fixed a problem with dynamically generated stretcher code not being
properly marked as executable on Linux, fixed a busy wait in the X11 vsync
simulation, added a fullscreen driver for X11 which does not need XVidMode
extension, fixed a problem where switching to fullscreen mode under X11,
made digmid work with absolute pathes in patches.cfg, and fixed a problem
with the Alsa driver on big endian systems.
Harshavardhana Reddy N (nharsha at gmail dot com).
Added a Kannada greeting to exunicod.
Haruhiko Okumura (email unknown).
Wrote the original version of the LZSS compression code.
12-2-404 Green Heights, 580 Nagasawa, Yokosuka 239, JP.
Hein Zelle (hein at icce dot rug dot nl).
Revamped the cross-compilation section of docs/build/mingw32.txt,
clarified a requirement when cross-compiling from Linux, reworked the
paragraph on the location of shared libraries under Unix in the docs and
added a FAQ entry on the same subject.
Henrik Schmidt (hbs at ks dot informatik dot uni-kiel dot de).
Found a workaround for the switching problem under Windows, made gcc pass
'-h' instead of '-soname' to the linker and replaced '-L' by '-h' in shell
comparisons so as not to break on Solaris.
Henrik Stokseth (hensto at online dot no).
Contributed a native Mingw32 port which can also be built with a
cross-compiler and the Cygwin compiler, much improved OS detection, added
get_gfx_mode_list() and methods for querying the VGA, Mode-X, Xtended,
VESA, VBE/AF and DirectX drivers for a list of possible GFX modes,
rewrote the mode-selector to use get_gfx_mode_list(), reworked the build
system many times and did plenty of other things too.
Hrvoje Ban (spoofer255 at gmail dot com).
Pointed out a bug in the mode selector, fixed several double ;'s, fixed
ASSERT() in Windows, helped write a documentation section about common
pitfalls, and added the create_datafile_index function.
Igor Gnip (gnipi at mindnever dot org).
Removed the requirements for fileutils on DOS/Windows platforms and added
the detection of MSYS to the MingW32 port.
Isaac Cruz (icruzbal at teleline dot es).
Fixed a bug with accelerated drawing onto sub bitmaps of DirectDraw
surfaces, added the GFX_DIRECTX_WIN driver, fixed a Windows sub bitmap
locking bug, added Windows desktop_color_depth and yield_timeslice
routines, and made extensive modifications to other aspects of the
Windows code.
Ivan Baldo (lubaldo at adinet dot com dot uy).
Wrote the 15/16 bit dithering code and optimised the sprite rotation
routines.
Jaime Moreno (daviangel at hotmail dot com).
Helped track down a problem with dependency generation in MacOS X.
Jakub Wasilewski (krajzega at meditech dot pl).
Fixed a bug when loading greyscale TGA images.
James Arthur (jaa at arfa dot clara dot net).
Documented the Photoshop-style truecolor blender routines.
James Hyman (frooge at mindless dot com).
Added support for quoted strings in the get_config_argv() function and
the dithering code for paletted images.
James Lohr (email unknown).
Fixed a problem with mouse acceleration in fullscreen modes under Windows.
James Ponder (james at squish dot net).
Suggested to remove the DJGPP makefile from the Unix tar archive and
clarified a requirement when cross-compiling from Linux.
Jan Bruun Andersen (jba-dk at users dot sourceforge dot net).
Fixed a compilation problem with Cygwin.
Jan Hubicka (hubicka at horac dot ta dot jcu dot cz).
Vastly improved the speed of the create_rgb_table() function.
Jason Wilkins (fenix at io dot com).
Wrote the quaternion math routines and contributed the BeOS port.
Javier Gonzalez (xaviergonz at hotmail dot com).
Corrected mouse movement speed, made allegro_message() use title from
set_window_title(), added close button hook support and improved
switching in Windows, fixed bad clearing of subbitmaps, made bug
reports and suggestions for improvement, contributed bidirectional
looping support, backward playing support and bugfixes for the
DirectSound driver and did plenty of other things too.
Jeff Mitchell (email unknown).
Fixed the location of grabber.txt in the spec file.
Jeremiah Blanchard (squirminworm at yahoo dot com).
Contributed modifications in order for Allegro to build on Darwin/MacOS X
and updated the build instructions for this new port afterwards.
Jim Flynn (jflynn at pacbell dot net).
Removed floating point calculations from the AWE32 MIDI driver.
Jim Grainger (Grainger_Jim/world_europe_samuro_WYN-CTV at samsung dot co dot kr).
Spotted a broken link in the docs and updated it.
Jiri Gabriel (email unknown).
fixed loading of multiple ranges in a single bitmap with txt fonts and helped
fix an off-by-one mistake for the last glyph in extract_font_range.
Joaquin Hierro Diaz (Joaquin dot Hierro dot Diaz at fresno dot csic dot es).
Made the mapping table for Spanish keyboards.
Joerg Rueppel (sharky-x at gmx dot net).
Added more flexible wildcard matching for object names in dat.exe and
the find_datafile_object() function.
Johan Peitz (d98peitz at dtek dot chalmers dot se).
Fixed and enhanced the Win32 joystick driver, and contributed the 'Alex
the Allegator' icon.
Johan Venter (leonjventer at bigpond dot com).
Fixed some problems with the RSXNT and Mingw32 makefiles.
John Holden (johnh at psych dot usyd dot edu dot au).
Fixed a bug in load_wav().
John Utz (Johnut01 at noa dot nintendo dot com).
Corrected a wrong assumption about the VRAM layout in the Linux
framebuffer console driver.
Jon Rafkind (workmin at ccs dot neu dot edu).
Added more ASSERTs to the code, implemented the Cohen-Sutherland clipping
algorithm for the line() function, supplied an m4 macro for Allegro
and added SCons support.
Jonas Petersen (joXonoX at berlin dot snafu dot de).
Added the save_bmp() function and support for the OS/2 BMP format.
Jonathan Tarbox (jonattar at rocketmail dot com).
Wrote the mode-X setup code, the FLI/FLC player and contributed parts of
the joystick handler.
Jorrit Rouwe (j dot rouwe at cpedu dot rug dot nl).
Provided a new and much cooler set of FM instrument definitions for the
Adlib MIDI driver.
Jose Antonio Luque (skylord at LatinMail dot com).
Improved the Windows joystick driver, and optimised the 16-bit blit() and
masked_blit() functions.
Joshua Heyer (joshua_heyer at yahoo dot com).
Wrote the original version of the OSS sound driver.
J. P. Morris (email unknown).
Fixed a bug rest_callback under unix.
Julien Cugnière (jcugniere at free dot fr).
Improved the support for non-blocking menus, fixed a bug related to the
retrieval of the inital volume when no primary buffer was present under
Windows, fixed the crash on exit with the aRts sound driver, added an
X11 message box for allegro_message under X11 and fixed a crash in the GUI
when a dialog was opened while a menu was still open.
Kalle Toivonen (allegro at korpiq dot iki dot fi).
Fixed a bug in _parallelogram_map().
Keith Gerdes (kwg at softhome dot net).
Fixed the DirectDraw overlay mode driver.
Kerry High (khigh01 at umr dot edu).
Contributed the SNES joypad driver.
Kester Maddock (dmaddock at xtra dot co dot nz).
Wrote the Wingman Warrior joystick driver.
Knut Pape (Knut_Pape at t-online dot de).
Improved the Mingw32 readme file.
Kronoman X (kronoman_x at hotmail dot com).
Added a FAQ entry about the conflict between Allegro headers and the C++
'using' directive.
Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy at arrakis dot cs dot put dot poznan dot pl).
Wrote the load_voc() function.
Laurence Withers (lwithers at users dot sf dot net).
Added destroy hook to font structure, worked on const-correctness
throughout the library, implemented the new FONT structure, made
some modules avoid linking dependencies, contributed the dat2c
utility, added two fixed point ratios for converting to and from
radians, added a '-windowed' switch to the grabber, added a new text
API and did plenty of other things too.
Lee Killough (email unknown).
Added the low-level hook routine to the keyboard handler and fixed a
couple of bugs.
Lennart Rolland (chimeni at hotmail dot com).
Contributed the Norwegian message translation.
Lennart Steinke (lst at steinke dot net).
Added the exconfig example, contributed keyboard layout detection code
for Windows and suggested the true colour font rendering.
Lisa Parratt (lisa at thecommune dot org dot uk).
Contributed the SGI Audio Library sound driver, spotted a BSDism that
IRIX doesn't like at all, added IRIX detection and improved the
performances of the SGI audio driver
Lorenzo Petrone (looris at gmail dot com).
Contributed the gfxinfo utility, added two FAQ entries, added a
xwin_set_window_name() function to the X11 port, added support for
switch callbacks under X11 and refactored the display switching code.
Lucas Vignoli Reis (lucasvr at bestway dot com dot br).
Added the Portuguese (Brazil) message translation and keyboard mapping.
Magnus Henoch (mange at freemail dot hu).
Made the gfx mode selector keep the current selection as much as possible
and fixed a problem when compiling without 8bpp support.
Maiolino Carmelo (cmaiolino at ctonline dot it).
Added the Italian keyboard mapping table.
Manni Heumann (manfred dot heumann at uni-bielefeld dot de).
Fixed some problems with the German keyboard mapping table.
Marcel de Kogel (m dot dekogel at student dot utwente dot nl).
Not content with fixing my broken MPU-401 driver, Marcel went on to
provide a set of vastly improved drum sounds for the OPL driver, to help
me sort out some problems with reentrant interrupts, to supply the half
of the joystick code that didn't come from Jonathan and to locate a
stupid mistake in my VESA linear framebuffer code.
Marcel Smit (marcel dot athlon at hccnet dot nl).
Corrected a bug that caused errors when drawing persp. correct polygons
facing the screen, corrected an error in the packfile format write-up and
made the show_video_bitmap() method of the Windows windowed driver wait
for a vsync.
Márcio Fialho (maaf1980 at yahoo dot com dot br).
Fixed several issues with the DJGPP port and the VBE/AF driver and fixed
some bugs related to author credits.
Marco Campinoti (marco at etruscan dot li dot it).
Added 15 and 24 bit support to the native Tseng ET4000 driver (now
available as part of the FreeBE/AF project).
Marco Marmulla (Viper005 at usa dot net).
Added 16 bit support to the load_voc() routine.
Marian Dvorsky (marian at step dot sk).
Wrote the Windows GDI interface routines.
Marius Fodor (iceman at teleport dot com).
Added support for the Sidewinder and Gravis GamePad Pro.
Marek Habersack (grendel at ananke dot amu dot edu dot pl).
Did the original Linux console port (brave man: this was the first ever
work done on porting Allegro away from DOS), which is the basis of the
code we are still using today and added support for the more recent
Trident chipsets (now available as part of the FreeBE/AF project).
Mark Wodrich (mwodric at eleceng dot uct dot ac dot za).
The brain behind sub-bitmaps, flicker-free mouse pointers, and the
ability to import GRX .FNT files into the grabber.
Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer (markus dot oberhumer at jk dot uni-linz dot ac dot at).
Fixed the Video-7 scrolling function (now available as part of the
FreeBE/AF project), optimised the color mapping routines, and made many
useful suggestions like the addition of a vid_phys_base field to the
graphics driver structure.
Martijn Van Lersel (amarillion at yahoo dot com).
Fixed an overflow in create_light_table().
Martijn Versteegh (m dot versteegh at hccnet dot nl).
Added the config hook extension mechanism.
Mathieu Lafon (mlafon at ifhamy dot insa-lyon dot fr).
Added the French keyboard mapping, support for the Pause/PrtScr keys and
changed the key[] table to a normal/extended bitfield.
Matt Witherspoon (spoon at vt dot edu).
Fixed a bug in the scroll() method of the Linux SVGAlib driver.
Matthew Bowie (catcat at nmt dot edu).
Added support for 4-button joysticks.
Matthew Leverton (matthew at allegro dot cc).
Fixed a bug with mouse mickeys in windowed mode under Windows, fixed a
problem with al_find*() and NTFS partitions under Windows, added missing
header files to be installed by the Windows binary distribution, made the
DOS/Windows makefiles use 'copy /B' instead of 'copy', added the detection
of left-hand mouse configuration under Windows, fixed a bug with
pack_fgets(), made an online diff generator and did lots of other things too.
Maxime Carey (werfu at users dot sourceforge dot net).
Contributed the Canada (French) keyboard mapping file.
Michael Bevin (michael dot bevin at stonebow dot otago dot ac dot nz).
Optimised the create_trans_table() function.
Michael Bukin (M dot A dot Bukin at inp dot nsk dot su).
Ported the whole thing to Unix/X, and contributed a _lot_ of patches to
improve the portability, robustness, and performance of pretty much the
entire library.
Michael Faerber.
Pointed out a mistake in the documentation for text_height().
Michael Rickmann (mrickma at gwdg dot de).
Ported the Windows code to Mingw32.
Michael Tanczos (webmaster at logic-gate dot com).
Fixed some bugs in the FLIC player.
Michal Mertl (mime at eunet dot cz).
Wrote all the 24 bit graphics code, the optimised palette generation
function and a fair amount of the other truecolor stuff too (bitmap
scaling, image loading, etc).
Michal Molhanec (molhanec at seznam dot cz).
Simplified the build instructions for Dev-C++, replaced all occurences
of MingW32 by MinGW in the docs, added an faq section about the giftware
license, fixed problems with long filenames when building for MSVC,
corrected a problem with the Watcom port, added MSVC7 options to the
makefile, fixed a linker problem with the MSVC port, fixed some const
warnings in the grabber code and did plenty of other things too.
Michail Pishchagin (mblsha at users dot sourceforge dot net).
Contributed the ustrnicmp() function.
Milan Mimica (milan dot mimica1 at pu dot htnet dot hr).
Fixed bugs in the keyconf utility, the alsa 9 volume settings and
extract_font_range(), helped fix an off-by-one mistake for the last glyph
in extract_font_range, fixed a bug where a font would be converted to 8
bit, a bug with is_color_font, made the Linux console driver more robust,
fixed some spin loops in the test program, and added the get_volume and
get_hardware_volume functions, and did plenty of other things too.
Miran Amon (miran dot amon at gmail dot com).
Fixed an undocumented arbitrary limit in get_config_argv()
Nathan Albury, aka Rubicant (gt4558a at prism dot gatech dot edu).
Improved the fire routine in examples/exflame.c (my original version
didn't really look very much like flames :-) and gave me some extremely
useful ideas about how to implement translucency.
Nathan Smith (white_door at dread dot nl).
Implemented the recursive handling of directories for the dat utility.
Neil Townsend (neil at robots dot ox dot ac dot uk).
Improved the accuracy of the timer routines and added the callback
parameters.
Neil Roy (neilroy at cogeco dot ca).
Suggested many improvements to the documentation.
Neil Walker.
Implemented a hardware accelerated stretch_blit() for the Windows DX port,
and fixed a bug with draw_sprite and sub-bitmaps.
Nicholas Davies (master_goodbytes at hotmail dot com).
Made the fix class not trigger warnings with gcc -Weffc++.
Nick Kochakian (nickk at worldnet dot att dot net).
Wrote the DirectSound input driver.
Ole Laursen (98zOLaw at aalborghus dot dk).
Contributed the Danish keyboard mapping table and system message
translation, and made the Unicode utolower() and utoupper() functions
understand the entire 16 bit character set.
Olivier Blin (oblin at mandriva dot com).
Fixed compilation problems for the ModeX driver.
Olly Betts (olly at muscat dot co dot uk).
Modified the djgpp makefile to support cross-compiling on a Linux machine.
Omar Cornut (cornut at noos dot fr).
Spotted an asm locking bug under Windows, bumped the maximum number of
buttons per joystick to 32, fixed the Windows joystick driver to handle a
weird peculiarity of the DirectInput API and improved the handling of
KEY_COLON2 on Japanese keyboards.
Oscar Giner (O_giner at hotmail dot com).
Added the Catalan translation, corrected the Spanish translation, fixed a
bug with binary data exporting in the grabber and fixed a conflict between
the magic main and the MFC.
Owen Embury (owen at gememail dot demon dot co dot uk).
Wrote part of the translucency/lighting code.
Owen Rudge (alleg at orudge dot freeuk dot com).
Contributed a DLL version resource script and the mkdata.bat script.
Ove Kaaven (ovek at arcticnet dot no).
Fixed a bug in the ATI mach64 driver (now available as part of the
FreeBE/AF project), added native truecolor and linear framebuffer support
to the ATI driver, contributed the Norwegian keyboard mapping, and added
MIDI and sample input features to the MPU and SB drivers respectively.
Paavo Ahola (email unknown).
Helped fix a problem with BCC and the C implementations of fixmul.
Patrick Hogan (patter at iname dot com).
Wrote the draw_gouraud_sprite() function, and made Windows audiostreams
work properly.
Paul Bartrum (bartrum at xtra dot co dot nz).
Contributed the ellipse drawing functions.
Paul Eipper.
Reported a bug where libdir from autotools was not used for the modules path.
Paul Furber (paul at sprintlink dot co dot za).
Provided the floating point apply_matrix_f() function.
Paul Hampson (Paul dot Hampson at Pobox dot Com).
Improved and fixed some problems in the SNES gamepad driver.
Paul Pinault (diskaleg at infonie dot fr).
Translated the system error messages into French.
Pavlos Touboulidis (gtoub at otenet dot gr).
Made file_select() able to include or exclude files based on their
attributes.
Pedro Cardoso (pcardoso at viriato dot ipv dot pt).
Contributed the tweaked 80x80 VGA mode.
Peter Cech (7cech at nw dot fmph dot uniba dot sk).
Added grabber support for the 8x8 BIOS font format, support for
hot-swapping between a custom keyboard layout and the standard US
mapping, optimised the alpha sprite blending routines and added non-ASCII
space recognition to uisspace().
Peter Hull (peterhull90 at users dot sourceforge dot net).
Made the file selector work with directories that have more than 2048
files, solved some compiling issues on MacOS X, fixed a bug in rest()
that caused it to wait too long on that platform, fixed several problems
with the hardware mouse cursor, fixed a deadlock in the software mouse
updating code, fixed compilation problems under MacOS X tiger, added a
MacOS X helpfile and did plenty of other things too.
Peter Johansson (email unknown).
Reported a problem with system cursors not working in Windows.
Peter Monks (pmonks at iname dot com).
Wrote the Video-7 graphics driver (now available as part of the FreeBE/AF
project) and showed me how to set up the unchained 640x400 mode.
Peter Palotas (blizzar at hem1 dot passagen dot se).
Added the keyboard callback routine.
Peter Pavlovic (Peter dot Pavlovic at st dot fmph dot uniba dot sk).
Added the Slovak keyboard mapping and message translation, stopped the
DOS file selector from listing virtual drives, did the same for the
Windows file selector, improved the support for accented character maps in
the keyboard driver and made aesthetic modifications to the GUI menu
system.
Peter Puck (zaqhaq at netscape dot net).
Helped with the Mingw32 native build.
Peter Wang (tjaden at users dot sourceforge dot net).
Added the mouse_z wheel input support to the Linux code, fixed problems
with the ESD sound driver, wrote the ALSA sound driver, wrote the BeOS
sound driver, added OSS MIDI and sample input support, added banked mode
support to the SVGAlib driver, wrote the X DGA mode switching code,
improved the Linux joystick driver, X11 fullscreen, DGA2 and DGA driver,
added pthread timers under Linux/Unix and did loads of other things too.
Phil Frisbie, Jr. (pfrisbie at geocities dot com).
Wrote the CPU type detection code.
Phil Shenk (email unknown).
Improved the MSVC build instructions.
Philipp Thomas (pthomas at suse dot de).
Fixed all comparisons between signed and unsigned types, fixed compilation
on x86-64, fixed all function prototypes, converted the configure
machinery to autoconf 2.53 or later and added multi-arch support, DESTDIR
support and the German translation to the RPM spec file.
Przemek Podsiadly (ppodsiad at elka dot pw dot edu dot pl).
Added hicolor versions of the 3d polygon code.
Revin Guillen (revin at phylo dot com).
Added the position_dialog() function.
Richard Davies (richard at debaser dot force9 dot co dot uk).
Added support for PSX and N64 joypads.
Richard Mitton (100740 dot 1271 at compuserve dot com).
Added support for 6-button joysticks, and wrote the 12-bit color example
program (ex12bit.c).
Richard Reeve (r dot e dot reeve at stir dot ac dot uk).
Fixed a silly mistake with gcc 3.0.x detection.
Robert J. Ragno (rjr at mit dot edu).
Wrote the Gravis GrIP driver, made some improvements to the Wingman, PSX
and throttle input code.
Robert J. Ohannessian (voidstar at ifrance dot com).
Added MMX optimisation for the 8 and 16-bit clear() functions, fixed bad
clearing of subbitmaps, added SSE detection and optimised some masked
blits with SSE instructions, added some routines to the unified color
convertor and made some of them more robust, fixed the docs for
pivot_scaled_sprite_v_flip(), revamped the retrieval mechanism of CPU
capabilities, separated the CSS file and did plenty of other things too.
Roberto Alfonso (rpgrca at labint dot frba dot utn dot edu dot ar).
Fixed a couple of memory problems in the dat2c utility, added an
srand() call in the demo game, made the MSVC port call `link /lib'
rather than `lib', fixed several warnings with GCC 4 under DJGPP and
fixed a grabber crash when importing a font range in an existing font.
Robin Burrows (rburrows at bigfoot dot com).
Provided a new page flipping code for the DirectDraw subsytem, added a
Windows sound driver using the Allegro mixer and another using waveOut,
fixed two glitches in the DirectDraw code.
Romano Signorelli (romanos at bigfoot dot com).
Added an arc plotting routine.
Ron Novy
Made several improvements to the test program.
Ronaldo Hideki Yamada (r dot yamada at uol dot com dot br).
Contributed the MacOS 9 port of Allegro.
Ryan Patterson.
Some documentation fixes.
S.Sakamaki (emt at geocities dot co dot jp).
Added the VESA 3.0 refresh rate control code.
S.Suzuki (s-suz at sunfield dot ne dot jp).
Wrote the IF-SEGA /PCI, /PCI2, and /ISA joystick interface drivers.
Salvador Eduardo Tropea (salvador at inti dot edu dot ar).
Improved the keyboard routines (better handling of extended scancodes,
keyboard LED support, capslock and numlock, and alt+numpad input),
contributed the 320x100 VGA graphics mode, added support for proper 16
bit sample mixing, fixed compilation on gcc 3.x and made numerous other
useful suggestions, contributions and bugfixes.
Sam Hocevar (sam at zoy dot org).
Fixed a Bashism in fix.sh that makes Solaris' sh choke, a race
condition in the mixer under Unix w/ threads, Windows, BeOS and MacOS X,
a crash in makedoc, made it possible to put functions from .s sources
in a shared library under Unix and removed deprecated use of several
functions.
Santeri Saarimaa (gridle at mbnet dot fi).
Made the Finnish keyboard mapping.
Sask Allegro (sask_allegro at iespana dot es).
Added support for more than two joysticks in the Windows port.
Scott Harrison (scotth at calderauk dot com).
Added the OpenDOS detection code.
Sean Gugler (sean at epal dot com).
Added the set_leds() function.
Seunghwan Ji (email unknown).
Made makedoc output correct html and rtf files for Korean.
Serge Semashko (serge at lxnt dot info).
Fixed a bug with the letter P in the Russian keyboard configuration
file, added Enter as a fire key to the demo game, fixed some
problems with Allegro working on Nokia 770, and fixed a crash in
_linear_draw_trans_rgba_rle_sprite24.
Seymour Shlien (seymour at dgbt dot doc dot ca).
Contributed the Windows BMP file reader, bezier spline drawer, and
justified text plotting function.
Shawn Hargreaves (shawn at talula dot demon dot co dot uk).
Progenitor. Wrote everything that wasn't written by somebody else.
Shawn Walker (binarycrusader at gmail dot com).
Several fixes to the .spec file, made get_executable_name use getexecname()
under Solaris, fixed a bug in the keyboard driver that caused crashes on
the same system, worked around errors with some versions of GNU AS and fixed
errors in the configure script when not using GCC
StApostol (stapostol at gmail dot com).
Fixed a bug in the exflame example and updated the FAQ to use rest(0) instead
of yield_timeslice().
Stefan Eilert (seilert at rz dot Uni-Osnabrueck dot DE).
Added support for a second joystick.
Stefan Schimanski (1Stein at gmx dot de).
Wrote the original Windows version pretty much single-handedly.
Stefan T. Boettner (virtual dot man at t-online dot de).
Wrote the Linux SVGAlib driver.
Stepan Roh (src at srnet dot cz).
Added a Czech keyboard mapping and system message translation, the Latin
Extended-A characters in the default font, the codepage support in the
textconv utility, fixed some problems with the ESD sound driver, helped
make Allegro build better on some Unix platforms, fixed const related
problems in C versions of routines and added support for a automake-style
DESTDIR variable in the Unix makefile.
Stephan Brauss (sbrauss at optronic dot ch).
Made a few fixes to let the Linux port compile again on Linux 2.2.x,
corrected a few nits in the Swiss keyboard configuration file and added
new keysyms to the X11-to-BIOS conversion table in order to catch missing
keycodes for the keypad when NumLock is on.
Stephen Kittelson (stickman2000 at juno dot com).
Made bugfixes and tweaks to the keyboard system.
Stijn Wolters.
Clarified the documentation of init_dialog.
Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik(email unknown).
Pointed out that Allegro should respect DESTDIR under MacOS X.
Sven Sandberg (svens at it dot uu dot se).
Fixed a problem with save_bitmap() rounding the image widths, optimised
the create_light_table() function, optimised the fixed point trigonometric
routines, provided the Swedish message translations, improved the file
selector sorting algorithm, optimised the spline routines, added
ustrrchr(), improved the usprintf() handling of floats, changed the
Z-buffer API, and did plenty of other things too.
TBD/FeR (tbd at usa dot net).
Added the 320x600 and 360x600 resolutions to the mode-X driver.
Teijo Hakala (teijo dot hakala at imnetti dot fi).
Added wheel support to the Windows mouse driver.
Tero Parvinen (Tero dot Parvinen at hut dot fi).
Designed most of the new sound API.
Theuzifan Sumachingun (uzi at simauria dot upv dot es).
Improved the cpu detection for Cyrix chips and made the file selector
only list valid drive letters.
Thomas Fjellstrom (tfjellstrom at home dot com).
Wrote the ALSA 0.5.x MIDI driver and added support for ALSA 0.9.x.
Thomas Harte (email unknown).
Helped fix a bug in show_video_bitmap() on MacOS X, helped optimise
fixmul(), helped find many bugs in the MacOS X port, like better support
for user-supplied Nibs, implemented a hardware accelerated stretch_blit
under DirectX, and fixed a bug with draw_sprite and sub-bitmaps.
Thomas Klausner (wiz at danbala dot ifoer dot tuwien dot ac dot at).
Added NetBSD detection and fixed a problem with the allegro.m4 macro and
automake 1.8+.
Thomas Wolf (two at chello dot at).
Corrected some errors in the German keyboard mapping and added the
German translation of the system messages.
Tim Bird (tbird at caldera dot com).
Worked on the Linux console port.
Tim Gunn (timgunn at eastwind dot com dot au).
Wrote the TGA reading/writing routines.
Timothy Terriberry (sundance at sprintmail dot com).
Fixed several bugs in the RGB <-> HSV conversion routines.
Tobi Vollebregt (email unknown).
Spotted a bug in ustrerror(), which was not returning a pointer to
a static buffer, reported a problem with shutdown_dialog() when a
menu was open, helped port the Windows keyboard driver to Windows 98
and fixed a bug with hardware cursor detection in X11.
Tobias Dammers.
Fixed a problem with the DirectSound input driver.
Tom Breton (tob at world dot std dot com).
Added the functionality selection #ifndefs to allegro.h.
Tom Novelli (tnovelli at cyber3 dot servtech dot com).
Wrote the original version of the digital MIDI driver.
Tom St Denis (tomstdenis at yahoo dot com).
Fixed clipping of transparent objects.
Tomohiko Sugiura (tmsugi at d4 dot dion dot ne dot jp).
Added the KEY_ABNT_C1, KEY_YEN, KEY_KANA, KEY_CONVERT, KEY_NOCONVERT
and other keys to the input handler, organised getting the IF-SEGA
joystick drivers by S.Suzuki merged into my codebase and added a more
aggressive Sidewinder joystick driver.
Tore Halse (gnolam at gmail dot com).
Made Allegro windows always popup centred in Windows and made fixes to the
documentation.
V Karthik Kumar (karthikkumar at gmail dot com).
Added a Tamil language greeting to exunicode, added switches to use
the Intel compiler in Windows and added a password option to the Windows
screensaver example.
Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva (vwss1984 at yahoo dot com dot br).
Changed a few occurences of "256" to PAL_SIZE and made OS type detection
handle Windows 2003 and Windows Vista.
Ville Skyttä (scop at users dot sourceforge dot net).
Fixed a problem with make install libdir= and modules on Unix systems.
Vincent Penquerc'h (lyrian at kezako dot net).
Added the D_DIRTY flag and mouse button press/release events to the GUI
system, optimised the 256 to truecolor blitting code to avoid repeated
conversions of the palette table, added scare_mouse_area(), added the
yield_timeslice() function, added the update selection function to the
grabber, added the XCRP and YCRP properties to datafiles in general,
implemented the big header split and did plenty of other things too.
Vitaliy Chetverikov (email unknown).
Fixed a bug in the GUI where the return value of MSG_IDLE was ignored.
VolkerOth (VolkerOth at aol dot com).
Integrated the concepts of scrolling and edit_proc objects.
First, a big thank you to all the people who help me test and debug this
code. It sometimes gets frustrating to receive hundreds of messages
saying "it doesn't work!", but they are useful all the same...
Andre Baresel (baresel at informatik dot hu-berlin dot de),
and Craig Jackson (Craig dot Jackson at launchpad dot unc dot edu),
provided a tremendous amount of information about SB hardware.
Benji York (Benji at cookeville dot com).
Provided hardware information for the Gravis GamePad Pro.
Charles Mac Donald (cgfm2 at hooked dot net).
Showed me how to set some cool tweaked VGA and mode-X resolutions.
Charles Sandmann (sandmann at clio dot rice dot edu),
DJ Delorie (dj at delorie dot com),
Eli Zaretskii (eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il),
and everyone else who has contributed to djgpp. I love it.
C. Schwerdtfeger (schwerdt at physics dot ubc dot ca),
for his help (and enourmous patience!) in getting the SB Pro-I MIDI
driver to work.
Finn Thoegersen, Nordbanevej 3 C, DK-7800 Skive, Denmark.
Most of my SVGA hardware information came from his VGADOC package.
Eric Jorgensen (smeagol at rt66 dot com).
Varmint's Audio Tools (VAT) gave me many useful ideas about how to play
MIDI files.
Jamie O'Connell (JamieOConnell at msn dot com).
Several of the new Adlib drum patches, and the specifications for the
.IBK file format, came from his SBTimbre package.
Jean-Paul Mikkers (mikmak at stack dot urc dot tue dot nl).
MikMod was the source of a lot of information about programming the SB,
and also gave me the idea of dynamically reprogramming the PIT to get a
really high resolution timer.
Joel H. Hunter (jhunter at kendaco dot telebyte dot com).
His SB library for djgpp is excellent, and helped me a lot.
John Pollard (74723 dot 1626 at compuserve dot com).
The FM instrument definitions are based on his MID-KIT library.
Kendall Bennett and all the other cool people at SciTech Software.
These guys gave the world UniVBE, the VBE/AF API, and a lot of free
information and example code. Plus they very kindly sent me a copy of the
VBE/AF spec when I wanted one.
Kris Heidenstrom (kheidens at actrix dot gen dot nz).
His PC timing FAQ was a big help.
Mark Feldman.
It goes without saying that the PCGPE was an invaluable resource.
Michael Abrash.
You just gotta love that man...
Paul Fenwick (bg914 at freenet dot carleton dot ca).
Various bits of the mode-X code (notably the split screen stuff) came
from his XLIBDJ library.
powerjaw (powerjaw at dnai dot com).
Sent me a Sidewinder gamepad so I could fix some problems with the driver
for it. What a cool thing to do...
Robert Grubbs (rwgrubbs at vt dot edu).
Provided hardware information for the Sidewinder joypad.
Robert Schmidt (robert at stud dot unit dot no).
The register values for the 400x* mode-X resolutions came from his TWEAK
program.
Sourceforge.net (http://sourceforge.net/).
The Allegro community has been using their services (web, mailing lists,
CVS, Subversion, etc) since 3.9.x WIP versions.
Tom Grandgent (tgrand at canvaslink dot com).
Organised and hosted the original Allegro mailing lists for many years.
Hurrah!
Vladimir Arnost (xarnos00 at dcse dot fee dot vutbr dot cz).
Provided hardware specs for the OPL3 chip.
Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Pink Floyd, the Doors, Tori Amos, and all the
other great musicians who provide me with things to listen to while I am
programming.
My parents, John and Nancy.
I would never have made it through all those late night coding sessions
without the cafetiere they gave me last Christmas :-)
By Shawn Hargreaves, Allegro creator.