exmem(3)

💖 exmem — ok bestie, let's talk memory bitmaps 💖

So this is exmem, a page straight out of the Allegro manual, and it's lowkey one of the cutest little demos in the whole Allegro game programming library. Like, it's giving "hello world" but make it pixels. ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

Example exmem

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so picture this: this program is a whole demo of memory bitmaps, and ngl it's kind of iconic. Here's the entire vibe, step by step:

1. It creates a small temporary bitmap in memory. 🧠✨
2. It draws some circles onto it. ⭕⭕⭕
3. Then it blits lots of copies of it onto the screen. 🔥

That's it, that's the whole flex. Small bitmap, big screen, many copies. The way that it just... duplicates itself everywhere? Main character energy fr fr. 💅

No cap: that's genuinely the whole program — make a lil bitmap, doodle on it, then spam it onto the screen. Simple, slay, done. 💖

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Like, if you wanna go deeper (and you should, bestie), go read all of these:

• BITMAP(3)
• END_OF_MAIN(3)
• SCREEN_H(3)
• SCREEN_W(3)
• acquire_screen(3)
• allegro_error(3)
• allegro_init(3)
• allegro_message(3)
• blit(3)
• circle(3)
• clear_bitmap(3)
• create_bitmap(3)
• desktop_palette(3)
• destroy_bitmap(3)
• install_keyboard(3)
• palette_color(3)
• readkey(3)
• release_screen(3)
• screen(3)
• set_gfx_mode(3)
• set_palette(3)

That's the whole page, bestie, and honestly? Ate. 💅✨ Big love to the Allegro girlies — this one's from version 4.4.3, and yeah exmem(3) said what it said. 🫶 Go draw some circles. 🎀🌈⭐