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.
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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.
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
* 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.
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License: Lesser GNU Public License, License: PNG/ZLIB, License change, Programming libraries
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By year
| A | 1998 - Initial release |
| B | 2007 - SDL 1.2.13 |
| C | 2013 - SDL 2.0.0 |