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Version 4.2.1 of Allegro, a game programming library for C/C++ developers, has been released. This release includes the following changes and new features:

• New get_volume() and a get_hardware_volume() functions.
• Added a new translucent font type.
• New list_config_sections() and list_config_entries() functions.
• New create_datafile_index() and load_datafile_object_indexed() functions.
• Fixed a rare bug with data corruption in compressed packfiles, and other packfile related bugs.
• Improved handling of filename encodings, and support for filesizes > 4GB.
• Improved version checks at runtime.
• Fixed problems with draw_sprite(), sub-bitmaps, and 24-bit bitmaps.
• Fixed a rare problem with load_wav().
• Fixed bugs with the DirectSound, qtmidi, MacOS X, ALSA, Jack and DIGMID sound drivers.
• Made the X11 driver more compatibly with the threading model of some OpenGL drivers.
• Reworked the X11 fullscreen mode.
• Many other fixes and improvements in the X11 driver.
• Some fixes for BSD systems.
• Numerous improvements and fixes for the fbcon, Linux console and svgalib drivers.
• Improvements and fixes for the PS/2 and evdev Linux mouse drivers.
• Many other updates to the build process on all platforms.
• Many additional bugfixes.
• Updates to grabber and other tools.
• Updates to the demo and examples.
• Updates to the documentation.

Download: [ Allegro 4.2.1]

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