Simple DirectMedia Layer

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A cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer.

1648
games
34
platforms

Alternate name: SDL

SDL supports drawing to framebuffer device, so X11 is not implicitly required in graphical SDL games on Linux. However, SDL games using OpenGL will require X11 still.

Distributed under zlib license since 2.0, used LGPL before that.
Supported platforms:
* Linux, BSD, Solaris, IRIX, QNX
* Windows
* Windows CE
* BeOS
* Mac OS X

Unsupported platforms (that may work):
* AmigaOS
* Dreamcast
* Atari 16-bit
* AIX
* OSF/Tru64
* RISC OS (support dropped with 2.0)
* SymbianOS
* OS/2

The first Simple DirectMedia Layer video game was released in 1989.

New Breed Software, ABA Games and LGames published most of these games.

Parent groups

License: Lesser GNU Public License, License: PNG/ZLIB, License change, Programming libraries

Child group

Simple DirectMedia Layer 2

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Platforms

Linux 917
BeOS 194
BSD 137
Windows 123
Mac OS X 77
GP2X 31
OS/2 30
Pandora 30
Solaris 24
Unix 12
Amiga 12
Atari ST 9
Zaurus 9
Mac OS Classic 6
MS-DOS 5
Android 5
Xbox 4
PSP 3
Amiga AGA 3
Nintendo DS 2
GamePark 32 2
Palm 1
TI Calculators 1
Wii 1
GBA 1
GameCube 1
TizenOS 1
PS4 1
Win3.1 1
PS Vita 1

By year

8991939597990103050709111315171921 1203060900 ABC
A1998 - Initial release
B2007 - SDL 1.2.13
C2013 - SDL 2.0.0

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