Allegro - Downloads - Older versions
Older versions
Here you can find some downloads of the older 5.x releases as well as the classical Allegro 4 library (and even older versions!). Allegro 5 is not backwards compatible with Allegro 4.
WARNING: These versions are not supported and may have critical security bugs! They are provided for historical curiosity reasons only.
Since version 3.12, Allegro has adopted this versioning scheme: The first number indicates a major version; differences here usually mean that a lot of things have changed. The second number indicates if the release is stable (even number) or unstable (odd number). Finally the third number marks smaller differences between releases. A fourth number is used if we need to fix a minor mistake found in a previous release.
Allegro 5.0 source releases (stable)
Allegro 5.0 supports Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, etc.), Windows, MacOS X and iPhone. You can read the full change log.
| Filename | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
| allegro-5.0.11.zip | 4.0M | Source code for all platforms in DOS/Windows friendly format. |
| allegro-5.0.11.tar.gz | 3.2M | Source code for all platforms in Unix friendly format. |
| allegro-5.0.11.7z | 2.4M | Source code for all platforms in DOS/Windows friendly format. |
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Allegro 5.1 source releases (unstable)
The 5.1 branch is source compatible, but not binary compatible, with the stable 5.0 branch. It contains provisional new features which are subject to change at any time. You can read the changes since 5.0.
| Filename | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
| allegro-5.1.13.1.zip | 8.1M | Source code for all platforms in DOS/Windows friendly format. |
| allegro-5.1.13.1.tar.gz | 7.2M | Source code for all platforms in Unix friendly format. |
| allegro-5.1.13.1.7z | 6.0M | Source code for all platforms in DOS/Windows friendly format. |
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Allegro 4.4 source releases
Allegro 4.4 supports Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, etc.), Windows, MacOS X and Haiku/BeOS. You can read the full change log.
| Filename | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
| allegro-4.4.3.1.zip | 4.9M | Source code for all platforms in DOS/Windows friendly format. |
| allegro-4.4.3.1.tar.gz | 4.5M | Source code for all platforms in Unix friendly format. |
| allegro-4.4.3.1.7z | 3.1M | Source code for all platforms in DOS/Windows friendly format. |
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Allegro 4.2 source releases
Allegro 4.2 supports Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, etc.), Windows, MacOS X, Haiku/BeOS, DOS and QNX.
| Filename | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
| all4231.zip | 3.8M | Source code for all platforms in DOS/Windows friendly format. |
| allegro-4.2.3.1.tar.gz | 3.1M | Source code for all platforms in Unix friendly format. |
| all4231_diff.zip | 139k | This file is a diff that can be installed over a clean copy of the 4.2.3 version of Allegro to update it to the current version. |
| allegro-enduser-4.2.3.1.tar.gz | 863k | This version contains the base library, without documentation or example programs. It’s targeted at those who want to run Allegro programs written by other people. If you want to develop programs yourself, you will have to download the full source code version. Only for Linux/Unix. |
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Allegro 4.2 Windows Binaries
| Site | Description |
|---|---|
| Allegro binary package | The allegro-bin directory contains several binary distributions of Allegro for Windows. For Allegro 4.2.2. |
| www.allegro.cc/files | Matthew Leverton hosts Windows binary packages for many different compilers. |
| devpaks.org | Michal Molhanec mantains a Devpak repository, where you can get a package of the precompiled library for MinGW and Dev-C++. Note that the Allegro Devpaks are also mirrored in the allegro-bin directory. If the Devpak site is down, check the previous entry’s link. |
Allegro 4.0
Allegro 4.0.0 - 10th of December, 2001.
- all400.zip (2687k)
- allegro-4.0.0.tar.gz (2332k)
- allegro-4.0.0-1.src.rpm (2313k)
- all400_bin.zip (1301k)
- allegro-enduser-4.0.0.tar.gz (576k)
See the download area.
Miscellaneous files
| Filename | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
| alldata.zip | 360k | This file contains the data needed by the Allegro demo game. It’s only needed if you got an old WIP version of the library, or if you updated to the current version via diffs, as these didn’t include the demo data to save space. |
| dx70_min.zip | 440k | You may have problems compiling the Allegro DLL if you don’t have the correct version of the DirectX SDK library and header files. This file contains the minimal version of the DirectX 7 SDK needed to compile the DLL yourself. Only for Windows. |
| dx70_mgw.zip | 243k | This file contains the minimal version of the DirectX 7 SDK for MinGW. Only for Windows. |
| dx80_mgw.zip | 442k | This file contains the minimal version of the DirectX 8 SDK for MinGW. Only for Windows. |
| dx70_dmc.zip | 234k | This file contains the minimal version of the DirectX 7 SDK for Digital Mars C/C++. Only for Windows. |
| dx9mgw.zip | 4180k | This file contains necessary DirectX files for compiling Allegro 5. Only for Windows. |
Ancient versions
These files are being made available for historical interest, and as reference material. They are unsupported, and for any serious programming work, you should get the most recent version instead.
Allegro 1.02 (119k) - Sometime in 1995.
Allegro 2.0 (304k) - March 1996.
Allegro 2.1 (562k) - June 1996.
Allegro 2.11 (563k) - November 1996.
Allegro 2.2 (990k) - February 1997.
Allegro 3.0 (1225k) - December 1997.
Allegro 3.1 (1422k) - January 1999.
Allegro 3.11 (1434k) - February 1999. Patch to upgrade to version 3.12.
Allegro 3.12 (1434k) - August 1999. This is a DOS/DJGPP library, and can be obtained from your local Simtel mirror, in the directory gnu/djgpp/v2tk/allegro/, filename alleg312.zip.
