load_bios_font(3)

💖 load_bios_font — Allegro manual ✨

ok bestie, we're in the Allegro game programming library section of the manual and this one is a lil niche but honestly kinda iconic 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

load_bios_font — Loads a 8x8 or 8x16 BIOS format font. Allegro game programming library. 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro.h>

FONT *load_bios_font(const char *filename, RGB *pal, void *param)

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So basically? It loads a 8x8 or 8x16 BIOS format font. That's the whole vibe. 🫶

But listen — and this is the part that matters — you shouldn't normally call this routine directly. Like, fr fr. It's not giving "call me from your own code" energy, it's giving "the Allegro internals handle this for you, bestie, go sit down" energy. 💀 The font loading machinery does the dialing, you just enjoy the font. 😌

🌈 RETURN VALUE 🌈

It hands you back a pointer to the font — or NULL if something went wrong. 😭

⚠️ and this is important: you are responsible for destroying the font when you are finished with it, otherwise you get memory leaks and nobody wants that kind of mess in their life. Clean up after yourself, queen. 🧚

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• register_font_file_type(3)
• load_font(3)

and that's the whole page, no cap 🍓

signing off with love from the Allegro manual, version 4.4.3 — stay slay, go load a font (indirectly), and free your memory 💖✨🎀