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Allegro
A free cross-platform library mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming. It handles common, low-level tasks such as creating windows, accepting user input, loading data, drawing images, playing sounds, etc. and generally abstracting away the underlying platform.
| First released | in the early 1990s |
| Developed by | Shawn Hargreaves |
| Latest stable version | Allegro 5 |
| Open-source | Yes |