iDevGames has noted that Allegro, a C/C++ based game programming library, has recently been made available for OS X. A freely distributed library, Allegro is highly flexible and includes 3D, floating point, and input functions:

The new "Work In Progress" with this support has not yet been released (4.1.10 - 4.1.9 is still on the website), but it is available in CVS and is being developed and tested. The person responsible is Angelo Mottola - he can be found on the allegro developers mailing list, accessible from the Allegro homepage. Essentially, this development is going to allow making Mac OS X games a snap. The port is already "lightyears" ahead of SDL. Not to mention, there are already numerous free Allegro games out for PC and Linux, written by hobbyists over the years, that will be portable to Mac OSX with little more than than a recompile in many cases. The code, as I said, is only available in CVS, but it would be nice to have some experienced Cocoa developers join the list and become active contributers. In addition, while the next WIP will likely not be bug free, I've personally always found Allegro WIP releases to be stable enough for development.

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