exflame(3alleg4)

💖 exflame 💖

okay bestie, so this is exflame from the Allegro manual — it's a 3alleg4 page, aka part of the Allegro game programming library, and it's literally the blueprint for writing straight to video memory and making your perf go zoom. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

exflame — how to write directly to video memory and improve performance. Allegro game programming library. no cap. 🔥

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <allegro.h>

Example exflame

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the tea 🍵 — this program is a whole demo of how to write directly to video memory. It builds a lil fire effect 🔥🔥🔥 and it does it three different ways, like a glow-up in stages:

• first, the chill way: calling getpixel() and putpixel()
• then the faster way: accessing video memory directly, one byte at a time
• and finally the absolute queen bee way: using block memory copy operations 👑

it's giving "same effect, three levels of efficiency," and honestly? iconic. 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

all the besties this page is linked to, fr fr:

• END_OF_MAIN(3alleg4)
• PALETTE(3alleg4)
• SCREEN_H(3alleg4)
• SCREEN_W(3alleg4)
• acquire_screen(3alleg4)
• allegro_error(3alleg4)
• allegro_init(3alleg4)
• allegro_message(3alleg4)
• bmp_read_line(3alleg4)
• bmp_unwrite_line(3alleg4)
• bmp_write_line(3alleg4)
• clear_keybuf(3alleg4)
• font(3alleg4)
• getpixel(3alleg4)
• install_keyboard(3alleg4)
• keypressed(3alleg4)
• line(3alleg4)
• makecol(3alleg4)
• putpixel(3alleg4)
• release_screen(3alleg4)
• rest(3alleg4)
• screen(3alleg4)
• set_gfx_mode(3alleg4)
• set_palette(3alleg4)
• textout_ex(3alleg4)

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie 🫶 go forth and write to that video memory directly.

this page came from the Allegro crew, version 4.4.3, dated with the rest of the exflame(3alleg4) family — mwah, slay, bye 👑💖