exaccel(3alleg4)

✨ exaccel ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Allegro manual — this one's from the Allegro game programming library, and today we're talking about exaccel. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

exaccel — using offscreen video memory to store source graphics for VBE/AF. Allegro game programming library. 🎀

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

#include <allegro.h>

Example exaccel

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so. this program is literally a whole demo of how to use an offscreen part of the video memory to stash your source graphics when you're rolling with a hardware accelerated graphics driver. main character behaviour fr. 👑

here's the vibe: the example loads the mysha.pcx file, and then blits it several times onto the screen. that's it. that's the whole thing. and yet, the results are giving ✨chaos✨, because it fully depends on your setup:

• if you have enough video memory and Allegro supports the hardware acceleration features of your card → 🎉 slay, smooth flicker-free hardware accelerated animation
• if not → sluggish performance due to software emulation 😭
• or honestly → none at all, your success running this example may be zero, no cap 💀

ngl bestie, the outcome of this example is not guaranteed. could be iconic, could be a flop, depends entirely on your video memory and your card's hardware acceleration. 🙈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• BITMAP(3alleg4)
• END_OF_MAIN(3alleg4)
• PALETTE(3alleg4)
• SCREEN_H(3alleg4)
• SCREEN_W(3alleg4)
• acquire_bitmap(3alleg4)
• allegro_error(3alleg4)
• allegro_init(3alleg4)
• allegro_message(3alleg4)
• blit(3alleg4)
• clear_bitmap(3alleg4)
• create_video_bitmap(3alleg4)
• destroy_bitmap(3alleg4)
• font(3alleg4)
• gfx_capabilities(3alleg4)
• install_keyboard(3alleg4)
• install_timer(3alleg4)
• keypressed(3alleg4)
• load_bitmap(3alleg4)
• readkey(3alleg4)
• release_bitmap(3alleg4)
• replace_filename(3alleg4)
• screen(3alleg4)
• set_gfx_mode(3alleg4)
• set_palette(3alleg4)
• show_video_bitmap(3alleg4)
• textout_ex(3alleg4)
• textprintf_ex(3alleg4)

and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it up 🫶 this one's Allegro version 4.4.3, and yeah, exaccel(3alleg4) is the name, periodt. 💖✨