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A cross-platform [DirectX] replacement.
-AddToMe please
+Created by Loki Games in their efforts to port various MicrosoftWindows games to the Linux world. Though Loki Games have closed/gone into liquidation, their legacy lives on through their excellent library: SimpleDirectMediaLayer or SDL.
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+SDL was used to port various MicrosoftWindows games to Linux such as Civilization: Call To Power, Descent3 and others. It is OpenSource (LGPL) and now works on many platforms: Windows, Linux, MacOS(X), BeOS ...
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+The base library plus add-ons provide services such as threads, sound, timers, endian independance, image loading, etc. etc. The library is written in C.
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+SDL can be found at [http://www.libsdl.org/]
See the [SDLManPages].
