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| >This library is designed to make it easy to write games that run on Linux, |
| Win32 and BeOS using the various native high-performance media interfaces, |
| (for video, audio, etc) and presenting a single source-code level API to |
| your application. This is a fairly low level API, but using this, completely |
| portable applications can be written with a great deal of flexibility.</P |
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| >The library is loaded as a dynamically linked library on its native |
| platform, and is currently compiled natively for Linux, compiled for |
| Win32 using a Linux hosted GCC |
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| environment, and compiled using the EGCS C++ compiler under BeOS.</P |
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| >An introduction to SDL can be found online at: |
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| HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/intro/toc.html" |
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| >http://www.libsdl.org/intro/</A |
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| >There are code examples on each of the main library pages, and there are |
| fully fleshed example C++ classes and programs in the examples archive, |
| available on the |
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| >SDL download page</A |
| >.</P |
| ><P |
| >For an introduction to basic multi-media programming concepts, you might try |
| some of the following links: |
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| HREF="http://www.ziron.com/links/" |
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| >Game Programming Links</A |
| ></P |
| ></LI |
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| ><A |
| HREF="http://developer.dungeon-crawl.com/" |
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| >Game Developer Search Engine</A |
| ></P |
| ></LI |
| ></UL |
| ></P |
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| >Enjoy!</P |
| ><P |
| > Sam Lantinga |
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| >slouken@libsdl.org</A |
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| <H1>Table of Contents</H1> |
| <UL> |
| <LI><A HREF="html/index.html">Full Table of Contents</A></LI> |
| <LI><A HREF="html/guide.html">The SDL Guide</A></LI> |
| <LI><A HREF="html/reference.html">The SDL Reference</A></LI> |
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| <LI><A HREF="html/general.html">Initialization</A></LI> |
| <LI><A HREF="html/video.html">Video</A></LI> |
| <LI><A HREF="html/wm.html">Window Manager</A></LI> |
| <LI><A HREF="html/event.html">Event Handling</A></LI> |
| <LI><A HREF="html/joystick.html">Joystick</A></LI> |
| <LI><A HREF="html/audio.html">Audio</A></LI> |
| <LI><A HREF="html/cdrom.html">CDROM</A></LI> |
| <LI><A HREF="html/thread.html">Threads</A></LI> |
| <LI><A HREF="html/time.html">Timers</A></LI> |
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