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.

1644

games

platforms

Alternate name: SDL

LIN 2005

LIN 1999

OSX 2011-07-13

WIN 2012-03-05

WIN 2009

Fish Fillets - The Next Generation

LIN 2004-10-10

X-pired

LIN 2002

HighMoon

LIN 2005

Love Invaders

LIN 2005-01-18

The Legend of Zelda: Book of Mudora

LIN 2015

Tux Racer

WIN 2000

Magic Maze

LIN 2008

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

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

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		137
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
Amiga AGA		3
PSP		3
Nintendo DS		2
GamePark 32		2
GameCube		1
TizenOS		1
PS4		1
Win3.1		1
PS Vita		1
Dreamcast		1
iOS		1
Mobile		1
WinCE		1

By year

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

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