Wiki migration

Status (as of Oct 2020)

While the stuff on this page is still correct, wiki.allegro.cc now just redirects here, making migrating the old articles a pain.

The old wiki can still be found on the Wayback Machine.

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This wiki is being migrated from the old MediaWiki one, which is no longer accessible, but we do have a dump courtesy of archive.org.

We won't want to port all of the old articles; there are plenty of things to be left out:

• Documentation of the library that's been superseded by the official docs
• Dead projects
• Old Hack Day writeups
• Release notes (these should be here instead)
• Anything specifically referring to Allegro 4 (we should be discouraging its usage now)
• Spam (one of the reasons we decided to move to GitHub)

Articles we should therefore port

Veterans: please add to this list if you see anything I've missed. -dthompson

• [2D/3D] physics resources
• [2D/3D] using OpenGL
• Addon writer's guide
• Allegro.cc [CSS/JS/themes]
• Allegro.py
• April Fool's thread (we can't not port this)
• Taking screenshots ("Allegro 5 Screenshot")
• Tilemaps (needs A5 update)
• Particles (needs A5 update)
• Allegro game from zero (great idea for an article... but needs A5 update)
• Bitwise operator
• Bounding box
• Build (probably scrap the current content and just write up a building-from-source page)
• Codeblocks (needs A5 update)
• Cellular automata (maybe - is this in scope?)
• CodingMadeEasy YouTube series
• Create (very comprehensive series... but would need a huge A5 overhaul, is it worth it?)
• D / DAllegro
• Eclipse (I have a feeling people still use this for C development?)

TODO: the other 50% of the list.

Contributing

If you want to be recognised as a good boy for a time by your friends on Allegro.cc, please help us by porting the articles; the quickest way of doing this for a given article is to:

• Create a similarly named article on here
• Select the MediaWiki edit mode
• Copy and paste its MediaWiki source
• Update the names of any links
• Fix code highlighting where needed
• If the article has images that need to be uploaded - and you're not in the 'Friends of the Wiki' group yet - create an issue and attach the images so that someone in the group can upload them.