Simple DirectMedia Layer

Software theme

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

1642

games

platforms

Alternate name: SDL

Tennix!

LIN 2009

Ultimate Stunts

LIN 2002

Waking Mars

WIN 2012-12-13

2H4U : Too Hard For You

LIN 2006-06-30

Hedgewars

LIN 2004

Warzone 2100

LIN 2005-06-11

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

WIN 2010-09-08

OSX 2003-07

LIN 2003

LIN 2003

OSX 2003

The first video game about Simple DirectMedia Layer was released in 1990.

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

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

Parent groups

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

Child group

Simple DirectMedia Layer 2

Related site

Official website

Platforms

Linux		914
BeOS		194
BSD		135
Windows		120
Mac OS X		77
Pandora		31
GP2X		31
OS/2		30
Solaris		24
Amiga		13
Unix		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
iOS		1
Mobile		1
WinCE		1
Palm		1
TI Calculators		1
Wii		1
GBA		1
GameCube		1
TizenOS		1

By year

A	1998 - Initial release
B	2007 - SDL 1.2.13
C	2013 - SDL 2.0.0

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