[pooppaint]

Is allegro still maintained, I thought it was as of a few years ago. You can develop like its 1997, or 1987.

[mdavidn]

Factorio, a recent relatively popular indie game, was developed on Allegro.

[peterangular]

They're moving off of it last I heard. Sounds like it's a legacy solution at this point.

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-230

[mikepurvis]

Huh, I wonder what that'll mean for cross-platform compatibility. As they say in the post, Allegro supports a lot of platforms, whereas if they end up just targeting DirectX 11, that pretty much locks out everyone other than Windows and Xbox, doesn't it?

[peterangular]

I believe they support Linux as a first-class citizen, even with removing Allegro! I've had VERY good luck with Factorio running through Steam, on Debian Linux (both 8 and 9). I have also ran it on Mac OSX and Windows 7 without any issue.

That game is so rock-solid as far as stability/system support that I would literally buy it again out of general principal =)

[zakkeg]

They're getting it working on OpenGL first. "We are using OpenGL 3.2 for now, but DirectX 11 support is definitely coming before we release it."

[danielvf]

FYI, Factorio still runs just fine on OS X.

[bluedino]

Those Megatouch coin operated games you can find at bars and such run Linux, and use Allegro. Not sure how recent they are, though.