The Double Buffering Technique using Allegro

We will learn how to use the double buffering technique to make things look smooth. Here is how buffering works: If you just draw everything to the screen, you will notice that you get a lot of flicker. This is because you are drawing directly to the screen, which is updated by the operating system [...]

Allegro, Game Programming Library

Allegro is a game programming library for C/C++ developers distributed freely, supporting the following platforms: DOS, Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, Irix, Solaris, Darwin), Windows, QNX, BeOS and MacOS X. It provides many functions for graphics, sounds, player input (keyboard, mouse and joystick) and timers. It also provides fixed and floating point mathematical functions, 3d functions, file [...]