Hello, on Thursday we received a belated Christmas package from our friends over at Steam:







They definitely won't be lasting long :-).


Getting rid of Allegro

As you may know, one of the foundational blocks of the Factorio engine is Allegro. In fact, it has been part of the game since the very first commit! It is a library for handling all sorts of platform interaction, like creating windows, sound playback, handling input, and graphics rendering. Over the course of the last 5 years, we have hacked a lot of custom enhancements and optimizations into Allegro.



Since it is a library with a long history, Allegro copes with a lot of legacy hardware that we don't really have to worry about, which makes it hard to expand and build...