1 Allegro is a portable library mainly aimed at video game and multimedia
2 programming, originally started by Shawn Hargreaves for the DJGPP compiler
3 in a mixture of C and assembler.
5 According to the Oxford Companion to Music, Allegro is the Italian for
6 "quick, lively, bright". It is also a recursive acronym which stands for
7 "Allegro Low LEvel Game ROutines".
12 o Unix (Linux, *BSD, Irix, Solaris, Darwin)
13 o Windows (MSVC, MinGW, Cygwin, Borland)