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3 ><HEAD 3 <HEAD><TITLE>Simple DirectMedia Layer Introduction</TITLE></HEAD>
4 ><TITLE 4 <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFF8DC" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ee" VLINK="#551a8b" ALINK="#ff0000">
5 >Introduction</TITLE 5 <DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER">
6 > 6 <HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%">
7 </HEAD 7 </DIV>
8 ><BODY 8 <DIV CLASS="PREFACE">
9 BGCOLOR="#FFF8DC" 9 <H2><A NAME="AEN8">Simple DirectMedia Layer Introduction</A></H2>
10 TEXT="#000000" 10 <P>
11 LINK="#0000ee" 11 This library is designed to make it easy to write games that run on many
12 VLINK="#551a8b" 12 different platforms using the various native high-performance media interfaces,
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15 CLASS="NAVHEADER"
16 >
17 <HR
18 ALIGN="LEFT"
19 WIDTH="100%"></DIV
20 ><DIV
21 CLASS="PREFACE"
22 ><H1
23 ><A
24 NAME="AEN8"
25 >Introduction</A
26 ></H1
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 13 (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 14 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 15 portable applications can be written with a great deal of flexibility.
33 ><P 16 </P><P>
34 >The library is loaded as a dynamically linked library on its native 17 An introduction to SDL can be found online at:
35 platform, and is currently compiled natively for Linux, compiled for 18 <A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/intro.php" TARGET="_top">
36 Win32 using a Linux hosted GCC 19 http://www.libsdl.org/intro.php</A>
37 <A 20 </P><P>
38 HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/Xmingw32/" 21 Tutorials on a variety of topics can be found online at:
39 TARGET="_top" 22 <A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/tutorials.php" TARGET="_top">
40 >cross-compilation</A 23 http://www.libsdl.org/tutorials.php</A>
41 > 24 </P><P>
42 environment, and compiled using the EGCS C++ compiler under BeOS.</P 25 Documentation in Wiki form can be found online at:
43 ><P 26 <A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi/" TARGET="_top">
44 >An introduction to SDL can be found online at: 27 http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi/</A>
45 <A 28 </P><P>
46 HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/intro/toc.html" 29 Enjoy!
47 TARGET="_top" 30 </P><P>
48 >http://www.libsdl.org/intro/</A 31 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sam Lantinga
49 >&#13;</P 32 <TT CLASS="EMAIL">&#60;<A HREF="mailto:slouken@libsdl.org"><A HREF="mailto:slouken@libsdl.org" TARGET="_top" >slouken@libsdl.org</A></A>&#62;</TT>
50 ><P 33 </P> <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 >&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sam Lantinga
87 <TT
88 CLASS="EMAIL"
89 >&#60;<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 >&#62;</TT
97 ></P
98 >
99 <P>
100 <br><br><HR> 34 <br><br><HR>
101 <H1>Table of Contents</H1> 35 <H1>Table of Contents</H1>
102 <UL> 36 <UL>
103 <LI><A HREF="html/index.html">Full Table of Contents</A></LI> 37 <LI><A HREF="html/index.html">Full Table of Contents</A></LI>
104 <LI><A HREF="html/guide.html">The SDL Guide</A></LI> 38 <LI><A HREF="html/guide.html">The SDL Guide</A></LI>