To be fair, both Sphere 1.5 and TurboSphere (at various points) have so far been compiled and run on a wider variety of platforms that MiniSphere has yet.

No, I wasn't referring to that, I was specifically pointing out Radnen's mention of Allegro, I think about a month before I actually considered using it (minisphere started out as an SFML engine, the day after that post).

I always assumed you got the idea from me. It's what I would have done... obviously now that I've re-read the comment. lol It was a solid statement, but you might be able to get more performance out of sfml? Anyways it really largely depends on duktape getting faster for you.

Does nobody love SDL2? ;_;

Nothing specifically against it, it just happened that I tried Allegro first (after being put off by SFML's over-complex "object-oriented-for-the-sake-of-it" API) and fell in love with its API, so I stuck with it.  I also wasn't that big a fan of SDL1 when I tried it a few years ago, but I don't know how different 2.0 is.

I like that they went with a zlib license for SDL2 though, it used to be GPL (I think?).  Not really big on copyleft licenses.

(after being put off by SFML's over-complex "object-oriented-for-the-sake-of-it" API)

This is why I like using SFML with .NET more than anything.

If there's ever a Sphere museum, this topic belongs in it.

Who would have guessed that NEO posting offhandedly about a (at the time) brand new JS engine would kickstart the development of the first successful (and epically so!) Sphere v2 engine?