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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.

1646
games
34
platforms

Alternate name: SDL

OpenTTD (Windows)
OpenTTD
WIN 2004
Barony (Windows)
Barony
WIN 2015-04-04
Komi (Linux)
Komi
LIN 2004
Powder (Windows)
Powder
WIN 2003? *
Barbie Seahorse Adventures (Windows)
Barbie Seahorse Adventures
WIN 2007-04-22
Toy Cars (Linux)
Toy Cars
LIN 1998
Zlog (Linux)
Zlog
LIN 1997
OpenXcom (Windows)
OpenXcom
WIN 2014-06-13
Dr. Blob's Organism (Windows)
Dr. Blob's Organism
WIN 2003-07
The Legend of Zelda: Book of Mudora (Linux)
The Legend of Zelda: Book of Mudora
LIN 2015
Doom (Atari ST)
Doom
ST 2002
Powder (Linux)
Powder
LIN 2003? *
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

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Parent groups

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

Child group

Simple DirectMedia Layer 2

Games by year

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A1998 - Initial release
B2007 - SDL 1.2.13
C2013 - SDL 2.0.0

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

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

Related site

Official website

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 10
Zaurus 9
Atari ST 9
Mac OS Classic 6
MS-DOS 5
Android 5
Xbox 4
PSP 3
Amiga AGA 3
GamePark 32 2
Nintendo DS 2
GameCube 1
TizenOS 1
PS4 1
Win3.1 1
PS Vita 1
Dreamcast 1
iOS 1
Mobile 1
WinCE 1

Most common companies

New Breed Software29
ABA Games17
LGames16
Loki13
Parallel Realities11
Retroguru9
Doodle9
The Freeciv project9
sarrazip8
Chucklefish8
ALTAR interactive7
Bungie Software7
16BitSoft6
Zelda s9larus6
Edge's World6