Please post the best game for the one you have voted.. I'd like an explanation too if you can. Thnx anyways :D!
(I wanna start using one)

i like allegro because i use it
:)

I learned that SDL is best when using OpenGL and allegro is best for 2D renderings

Good, good. So which one is faster?

allegro

directx ^_^

1) directx is a nightmare to code (go ahead flame me)
2) is WINDOWS ONLY (i like my code to be open to porting to other platforms)

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DX is a 3D graphic API and Allegro and SDL are 2D orientated. Already this makes DX harder to use for 2D and I didn't even consider its design.

Allegro is a more high level API then SDL although it does also allow access at the same level as SDL. This makes it very difficult to implement SDL on every platform effeciently. If the graphic card doesn't like pixel putting then you are pretty much out of the game with SDL. Allegro also has better docs.

Under Windows Allegro is superior to SDL.

well SDL is only good when using with OpenGL
for 2D allegro owns

Meh.. I am getting teh confused.. I wanna know which is faster!? Also I'm making a Tetris game with SDL. Do I stop and start with Allegro?
I'm under Windows XP BTW.

SDL should be sufficient, but Allegro will be faster

What about SDL combined with OpenGL, binding textures (unfltered) to quads?

thats what i'm going to use

Why not use OpenGL directly like i'm learning to do?

how is that ?

if your making a testris game speed shouldn't matter that much you could even use gdi for that matter, unless you are making like tetris 3d or something.

By calling the api in opengl32.dll, glut32.dll & glu32.dll directly. without using any interpreted functions.

i see

Even if you use SDL you use OpenGL directly.
SDL doesn't have any wrapper functions for OpenGL API or anything, all it does is handle window creation and such.

oh sorry i've been learning OpenGL in ASM so i didnt understand. :/

Or use Yagl. I personally use this, it is multi-language (FreeBASIC, C/C++), very fast and very simple. It can be found here

Just check it out, it is very easy to use. Most of the users are FreeBASIC programmers but...it is still VERY good.

Allegro seems depreceated with the slow development. However, i think it does more for you than SDL, so it's probably easier to use.

You can use opengl with SDL directly while with allegro you need a lib.

But other than that, I don't know.

Another popular choice is clan lib sdk, but I quitted because I couldn't make it to work on dev-cpp.

As for speed, I think they are both slow. Drawing stuff with the software is really painfull, unless you do the dirty rectangle technique. And I think you need to implement it in both libraries. The fastest is to use 3D to do your 2D with textured quads. But wether your doing it with allegro or SDL, it's OpenGL code you'll need to do.

Is OGL hard :/?

No..