
I hope I've remembered everyone who ought to be mentioned here. If your 
name should be included, my apologies, and please tell me so I can correct 
the oversight!


Everything not attributed to one of the people in this file was written by 
me (Shawn Hargreaves).



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============ Contributors ============
======================================

   A.Cottrell (andrewc@dbworld.net.au).
   Changed the grabber to use a more robust (locale-independent) date format.

   Adrian Oboroc (ash@cinf.usm.md).
   Wrote the LBM loader.

   Alex Demko (alex_demko@mbnet.mb.ca).
   Suggested lots of improvements to the datafile system, and provided code 
   for handling the 8x16 BIOS font format.

   Andrei 'old-boy' Ellman (ellman@xs4all.nl).
   Contributed the polygon_z_normal() function.

   Andrew Ellem (krand@ican.net).
   Wrote the original version of the digital audio streaming code.

   Antoine Mathys (mmathys@bluewin.ch).
   Added the Swiss keyboard mapping.

   Anton Ragnarsson (anton.ragnarsson@swipnet.se).
   Contributed the Swedish keyboard mapping table.

   Arne Steinarson (arst@ludd.luth.se).
   The fixed point square root routine came from his fix-float library.

   Ben Chauveau (bendomc@worldnet.fr).
   Added support for Tseng ET6000 cards (now available as part of the 
   FreeBE/AF project).

   Ben Darnell (bdarnell@vnet.net).
   Put together the 2.11 release of Allegro while I was away from the net, 
   and wrote the original version of the Allegro FAQ.

   Burton Radons (loth@gec.net).
   Optimised the truecolor pixel blending function.

   Calin Andrian (calin@ibd.dbio.ro).
   Wrote the truecolor, MMX, 3DNow!, and masked lit mode polygon rendering 
   routines, and the clip3d_f() function.

   Carsten Sorensen (csorensen@ea.com).
   Wrote the the ESS AudioDrive soundcard driver.

   Cloud Wu (cloudwu@263.net).
   Optimised the truecolor pixel blending functions.

   Chris La Mantia (lamantia@gte.net).
   Wrote the d_radio_proc(), d_icon_proc(), and d_slider_proc() dialog 
   objects, added the D_DISABLED flag, and improved the GUI handling of 
   different font heights.

   Dave Thomson (gameskitchen@geocities.com).
   Added the RGB <-> HSV conversion routines, the autocrop function to 
   the grabber, and wrote the 3d starfield example program (ex26.exe).

   David Calvin (calvid@rpi.edu).
   Wrote the original version of the sound setup utility.

   Disk91 / TeKnO-BeDoUiNs (diskaleg@infonie.fr).
   Translated the system error messages into French.

   Dominique Biesmans (Dominique.Biesmans@ping.be).
   Wrote the mode-X version of draw_sprite() and the mode-X  linear 
   blitting functions.

   Doug Eleveld (D.J.Eleveld@anest.azg.nl).
   Wrote the d_textbox_proc() dialog object and the new grabber help system.

   Edward Boone (Lucien.Boone@ping.be).
   Provided scancode mapping tables for the AZERTY keyboard layout.

   Erik Sandberg (eriksandberg@geocities.com).
   Optimised the 8 bit draw_sprite() and draw_trans_sprite() functions.

   Ettore Perazzoli (ettore@comm2000.it).
   Optimised the linear -> mode-X blitting function.

   Fabian Nunez (faybs@iafrica.com).
   Added support for the CH Flightstick Pro and Logitech Wingman Extreme 
   joysticks, 3-button mice, and the extended keys on a Microsoft keyboard.

   Francois Charton (deef@pobox.oleane.com).
   Wrote the Paradise graphics driver (now available as part of the 
   FreeBE/AF project), improved the VGA palette setting code, and helped 
   with the TexInfo conversion of the docs.

   Frodo Baggins (l41273@alfa.ist.utl.pt).
   Made the Portuguese keyboard mapping.

   Garret Thomson (gart@terraport.net).
   Wrote the music used in the demo game.

   George Foot (george.foot@merton.ox.ac.uk).
   Wrote the AWE32 driver, added the MIDI pause/seek functions, provided the 
   basis of the SoundFont reader used in the pat2dat utility, and made a lot 
   of useful suggestions and improvements.

   Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz (gradha@iname.com).
   Wrote several of the example programs, suggested the "compress" makefile 
   target, and translated the docs and system error messages into Spanish.

   Grzegorz Ludorowski (pajonk@ajax.umcs.lublin.pl).
   Wrote several of the example programs, and made the intro animation and 
   graphics for the demo game.

   Guilherme Silveira (thedarkage@geocities.com).
   Modified the file selector to only list valid drive letters.

   Gunter Ladwig (gladwig@iname.com).
   Wrote the OS/2 detection routines.

   Haruhiko Okumura, 12-2-404 Green Heights, 580 Nagasawa, Yokosuka 239, JP.
   Wrote the original version of the LZSS compression code.

   Ivan Baldo (lubaldo@adinet.com.uy).
   Wrote the 15/16 bit dithering code and optimised the sprite rotation 
   routines.

   Jan Hubicka (hubicka@horac.ta.jcu.cz).
   Vastly improved the speed of the create_rgb_table() function.

   Jim Flynn (jflynn@pacbell.net).
   Removed floating point calculations from the AWE32 MIDI driver.

   Joaquin Hierro Diaz (Joaquin.Hierro.Diaz@fresno.csic.es).
   Made the mapping table for Spanish keyboards.

   Jonas Petersen (joXonoX@berlin.snafu.de).
   Added the save_bmp() function, and support for the OS/2 BMP format.

   Jonathan Tarbox (jonattar@rocketmail.com).
   Wrote the mode-X setup code, the FLI/FLC player, and contributed parts of 
   the joystick handler.

   Jorrit Rouwe (j.rouwe@cpedu.rug.nl).
   Provided a new and much cooler set of FM instrument definitions for the 
   Adlib MIDI driver.

   Kerry High (khigh01@umr.edu).
   Contributed the SNES joypad driver.

   Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy@arrakis.cs.put.poznan.pl).
   Wrote the load_voc() function.

   Lee Killough (email unknown).
   Added the low-level hook routine to the keyboard handler, and fixed a 
   couple of bugs.

   Maiolino Carmelo (cmaiolino@ctonline.it).
   Added the Italian keyboard mapping table.

   Marcel de Kogel (m.dekogel@student.utwente.nl).
   Not content with fixing my broken MPU-401 driver, Marcel went on to 
   provide a set of vastly improved drum sounds for the OPL driver, to help 
   me sort out some problems with reentrant interrupts, to supply the half 
   of the joystick code that didn't come from Jonathan, and to locate a 
   stupid mistake in my VESA linear framebuffer code.

   Marco Campinoti (marco@etruscan.li.it).
   Added 15 and 24 bit support to the native Tseng ET4000 driver (now 
   available as part of the FreeBE/AF project).

   Marco Marmulla (Viper005@usa.net).
   Added 16 bit support to the load_voc() routine.

   Marius Fodor (mfodor0@teleport.com).
   Added support for the Sidewinder and Gravis GamePad Pro.

   Mark Habersack (grendel@ananke.amu.edu.pl).
   Added support for the more recent Trident chipsets (now available as part 
   of the FreeBE/AF project).

   Mark Wodrich (mwodric@eleceng.uct.ac.za).
   The brain behind sub-bitmaps, flicker-free mouse pointers, and the 
   ability to import GRX .FNT files into the grabber.

   Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer (markus.oberhumer@jk.uni-linz.ac.at).
   Fixed the Video-7 scrolling function (now available as part of the 
   FreeBE/AF project), optimised the color mapping routines, and made many 
   useful suggestions like the addition of a vid_phys_base field to the 
   graphics driver structure.

   Martijn Versteegh (VERSTEEGH@KVI.nl).
   Added the config hook extension mechanism.

   Mathieu Lafon (mlafon@ifhamy.insa-lyon.fr).
   Added the French keyboard mapping, support for the Pause/PrtScr keys, and 
   changed the key[] table to a normal/extended bitfield.

   Matthew Bowie (catcat@nmt.edu).
   Added support for 4-button joysticks.

   Michael Bevin (michael.bevin@stonebow.otago.ac.nz).
   Optimised the create_trans_table() function.

   Michael Bukin (M.A.Bukin@inp.nsk.su).
   Optimised the line drawing code, fixed a bug in fadd()/fsub(), and 
   contributed a _lot_ of patches to improve the portability and robustness 
   of pretty much the entire library.

   Michael Tanczos (webmaster@logic-gate.com).
   Fixed some bugs in the FLIC player.

   Michal Mertl (mime@eunet.cz).
   Wrote all the 24 bit graphics code, the optimised palette generation 
   function, and a fair amount of the other truecolor stuff too (bitmap 
   scaling, image loading, etc).

   Nathan Albury, aka Rubicant (gt4558a@prism.gatech.edu).
   Improved the fire routine in examples/ex11.c (my original version didn't 
   really look very much like flames :-) and gave me some extremely useful 
   ideas about how to implement translucency.

   Neil Townsend (neil@robots.ox.ac.uk).
   Improved the accuracy of the timer routines.

   Ole Laursen (98zOLaw@aalborghus.dk).
   Contributed the Danish keyboard mapping table and system message 
   translation.

   Owen Embury (owen@gememail.demon.co.uk).
   Wrote part of the translucency/lighting code.

   Ove Kaaven (ovek@arcticnet.no).
   Fixed a bug in the ATI mach64 driver (now available as part of the 
   FreeBE/AF project), added native truecolor and linear framebuffer support 
   to the ATI driver, contributed the Norwegian keyboard mapping, and added 
   MIDI and sample input features to the MPU and SB drivers respectively.

   Patrick Hogan (patter@iname.com).
   Wrote the draw_gouraud_sprite() function.

   Paul Bartrum (bartrum@xtra.co.nz).
   Contributed the ellipse drawing functions.

   Paul Furber (paul@sprintlink.co.za).
   Provided the floating point apply_matrix_f() function.

   Pedro Cardoso (pcardoso@viriato.ipv.pt).
   Contributed the tweaked 80x80 VGA mode.

   Peter Cech (7cech@nw.fmph.uniba.sk).
   Added grabber support for the 8x8 BIOS font format, and support for 
   hot-swapping between a custom keyboard layout and the standard US mapping.

   Peter Monks (Peter_Monks@australia.notes.pw.com).
   Wrote the Video-7 graphics driver (now available as part of the FreeBE/AF 
   project), and showed me how to set up the unchained 640x400 mode.

   Peter Palotas (blizzar@hem1.passagen.se).
   Added the keyboard callback routine.

   Phil Frisbie, Jr. (pfrisbie@geocities.com).
   Wrote the CPU type detection code.

   Przemek Podsiadly (ppodsiad@elka.pw.edu.pl).
   Added hicolor versions of the 3d polygon code.

   Richard Mitton (100740.1271@compuserve.com).
   Added support for 6-button joysticks, and wrote the 12-bit color example 
   program (ex35).

   Romano Signorelli (romanos@bigfoot.com).
   Added an arc plotting routine.

   Salvador Eduardo Tropea (salvador@inti.edu.ar).
   Improved the keyboard routines (better handling of extended scancodes, 
   keyboard LED support, capslock and numlock, and alt+numpad input), 
   contributed the 320x100 VGA graphics mode, added support for proper 16 
   bit sample mixing, and made numerous other useful suggestions, 
   contributions and bugfixes.

   Santeri Saarimaa (gridle@mbnet.fi).
   Made the Finnish keyboard mapping.

   Scott Harrison (scotth@calderauk.com).
   Added the OpenDOS detection code.

   Sean Gugler (sean@epal.com).
   Added the set_leds() function.

   Seymour Shlien (seymour@dgbt.doc.ca).
   Contributed the Windows BMP file reader, bezier spline drawer, and 
   justified text plotting function.

   Stefan Eilert (seilert@rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE).
   Added support for a second joystick.

   Stefan Schimanski (1Stein@gmx.de).
   Optimised the reverse blitting function for overlapping bitmaps.

   Stepan Roh (sroh7497@barbora.mff.cuni.cz).
   Added a Czech keyboard mapping and system message translation.

   Sven Sandberg (ssven@geocities.com).
   Fixed a problem with save_bitmap() rounding the image widths, optimised 
   the create_light_table() function, and optimised the fixed point trig 
   routines.

   TBD/FeR (tbd@usa.net).
   Added the 320x600 and 360x600 resolutions to the mode-X driver.

   Tero Parvinen (Tero.Parvinen@hut.fi).
   Designed most of the new sound API.

   Theuzifan Sumachingun (uzi@simauria.upv.es).
   Improved the cpu detection for Cyrix chips and made the file selector 
   only list valid drive letters.

   Thomas Wolf (seawolf@net4you.co.at).
   Corrected some errors in the German keyboard mapping, and added the 
   German translation of the system messages.

   Tim Gunn (timgunn@eastwind.com.au).
   Wrote the TGA reading/writing routines.

   Timothy Terriberry (sundance@sprintmail.com).
   Fixed several bugs in the RGB <-> HSV conversion routines.

   Tom Breton (tob@world.std.com).
   Added the functionality selection #ifndefs to allegro.h.

   Tom Novelli (tnovelli@cyber3.servtech.com).
   Wrote the original version of the digital MIDI driver.

   VolkerOth (VolkerOth@aol.com).
   Integrated the concepts of scrolling and edit_proc objects.

