CGALIB 2 Released

CGALIB 2, the second version of my programming library for the 8088 with CGA graphics and PC speaker sound, has now been released. CGALIB 2 now includes its associated libraries, KEYLIB for reading the keyboard, and SPKLIB for playing sounds and music through the PC speaker.

This version of the library has been used to develop three of my latest games, Star Cadre: Combat Class, Pym's Daily Word Square Puzzle, and The Chambers Beneath. While I'd normally have released this after its first successful inclusion in a project, I hadn't at the time completed the documentation, or the improved asset generation utilities for sound effects and music.

Those wants have now been supplied, and the library is available for public use. It builds on CGALIB 1 with the inclusion of the above mentioned features, and also with the addition of support for fonts in sizes other than 4x8, the addition of a finer drawing grid of 4x1 instead of 4x2 pixels, an automatic back buffer for screen output, and numerous other functions.

Download the library and its documentation either from here or from the CGALIB 2 project page.