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+ − 25 >Introduction</A
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+ − 27 ><P
+ − 28 >This library is designed to make it easy to write games that run on Linux,
+ − 29 Win32 and BeOS using the various native high-performance media interfaces,
+ − 30 (for video, audio, etc) and presenting a single source-code level API to
+ − 31 your application. This is a fairly low level API, but using this, completely
+ − 32 portable applications can be written with a great deal of flexibility.</P
+ − 33 ><P
+ − 34 >The library is loaded as a dynamically linked library on its native
+ − 35 platform, and is currently compiled natively for Linux, compiled for
+ − 36 Win32 using a Linux hosted GCC
+ − 37 <A
+ − 38 HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/Xmingw32/"
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+ − 40 >cross-compilation</A
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+ − 42 environment, and compiled using the EGCS C++ compiler under BeOS.</P
+ − 43 ><P
+ − 44 >An introduction to SDL can be found online at:
+ − 45 <A
+ − 46 HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/intro/toc.html"
+ − 47 TARGET="_top"
+ − 48 >http://www.libsdl.org/intro/</A
+ − 49 > </P
+ − 50 ><P
+ − 51 >There are code examples on each of the main library pages, and there are
+ − 52 fully fleshed example C++ classes and programs in the examples archive,
+ − 53 available on the
+ − 54 <A
+ − 55 HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/download.html"
+ − 56 TARGET="_top"
+ − 57 >SDL download page</A
+ − 58 >.</P
+ − 59 ><P
+ − 60 >For an introduction to basic multi-media programming concepts, you might try
+ − 61 some of the following links:
+ − 62 <P
+ − 63 ></P
+ − 64 ><UL
+ − 65 ><LI
+ − 66 ><P
+ − 67 ><A
+ − 68 HREF="http://www.ziron.com/links/"
+ − 69 TARGET="_top"
+ − 70 >Game Programming Links</A
+ − 71 ></P
+ − 72 ></LI
+ − 73 ><LI
+ − 74 ><P
+ − 75 ><A
+ − 76 HREF="http://developer.dungeon-crawl.com/"
+ − 77 TARGET="_top"
+ − 78 >Game Developer Search Engine</A
+ − 79 ></P
+ − 80 ></LI
+ − 81 ></UL
+ − 82 ></P
+ − 83 ><P
+ − 84 >Enjoy!</P
+ − 85 ><P
+ − 86 > Sam Lantinga
+ − 87 <TT
+ − 88 CLASS="EMAIL"
+ − 89 ><<A
+ − 90 HREF="mailto:slouken@libsdl.org"
+ − 91 ><A
+ − 92 HREF="mailto:slouken@libsdl.org"
+ − 93 TARGET="_top"
+ − 94 >slouken@libsdl.org</A
+ − 95 ></A
+ − 96 >></TT
+ − 97 ></P
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+ − 100 <br><br><HR>
+ − 101 <H1>Table of Contents</H1>
+ − 102 <UL>
+ − 103 <LI><A HREF="html/index.html">Full Table of Contents</A></LI>
+ − 104 <LI><A HREF="html/guide.html">The SDL Guide</A></LI>
+ − 105 <LI><A HREF="html/reference.html">The SDL Reference</A></LI>
+ − 106 <UL>
+ − 107 <LI><A HREF="html/general.html">Initialization</A></LI>
+ − 108 <LI><A HREF="html/video.html">Video</A></LI>
+ − 109 <LI><A HREF="html/wm.html">Window Manager</A></LI>
+ − 110 <LI><A HREF="html/event.html">Event Handling</A></LI>
+ − 111 <LI><A HREF="html/joystick.html">Joystick</A></LI>
+ − 112 <LI><A HREF="html/audio.html">Audio</A></LI>
+ − 113 <LI><A HREF="html/cdrom.html">CDROM</A></LI>
+ − 114 <LI><A HREF="html/thread.html">Threads</A></LI>
+ − 115 <LI><A HREF="html/time.html">Timers</A></LI>
+ − 116 </UL>
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