Allegro vs. SDL

[Armchair_Avatar]

I'm curious why you chose SDL as the multiplatform library for Exult.
I'm not trying to say that you should have used Allegro; I don't know much about it, so I couldn't say whether or not it's better than SDL.
I'm just interested in the reasons that made you choose one library over another.

[Darke]

I don't know why they chose it, but I'm pretty sure that Allegro under linux was in a very alpha stage at that point in time (it was originally designed for DJGPP/DOS). Since the main reason I stopped coding with Allegro was I moved all my coding to linux/solaris.

[drcode]

I did look at Allegro waayyy back, and used it to make Exult work under DOS/VGA (but later removed that code). If I recall, Allegro wasn't even complete for Windows at the time.