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+<HTML
+><HEAD
+><TITLE
+>Introduction</TITLE
+>
+</HEAD
+><BODY
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+ALINK="#ff0000"
+><DIV
+CLASS="NAVHEADER"
+>
+<HR
+ALIGN="LEFT"
+WIDTH="100%"></DIV
+><DIV
+CLASS="PREFACE"
+><H1
+><A
+NAME="AEN8"
+>Introduction</A
+></H1
+><P
+>This library is designed to make it easy to write games that run on Linux,
+Win32 and BeOS using the various native high-performance media interfaces,
+(for video, audio, etc) and presenting a single source-code level API to
+your application.  This is a fairly low level API, but using this, completely
+portable applications can be written with a great deal of flexibility.</P
+><P
+>The library is loaded as a dynamically linked library on its native
+platform, and is currently compiled natively for Linux, compiled for
+Win32 using a Linux hosted GCC
+<A
+HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/Xmingw32/"
+TARGET="_top"
+>cross-compilation</A
+>
+environment, and compiled using the EGCS C++ compiler under BeOS.</P
+><P
+>An introduction to SDL can be found online at:
+<A
+HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/intro/toc.html"
+TARGET="_top"
+>http://www.libsdl.org/intro/</A
+>&#13;</P
+><P
+>There are code examples on each of the main library pages, and there are
+fully fleshed example C++ classes and programs in the examples archive,
+available on the
+<A
+HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/download.html"
+TARGET="_top"
+>SDL download page</A
+>.</P
+><P
+>For an introduction to basic multi-media programming concepts, you might try
+some of the following links:
+<P
+></P
+><UL
+><LI
+><P
+><A
+HREF="http://www.ziron.com/links/"
+TARGET="_top"
+>Game Programming Links</A
+></P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+><A
+HREF="http://developer.dungeon-crawl.com/"
+TARGET="_top"
+>Game Developer Search Engine</A
+></P
+></LI
+></UL
+></P
+><P
+>Enjoy!</P
+><P
+>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sam Lantinga
+<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
+></P
+>
+<P>
+<br><br><HR>
+<H1>Table of Contents</H1>
+<UL>
+<LI><A HREF="html/index.html">Full Table of Contents</A></LI>
+<LI><A HREF="html/guide.html">The SDL Guide</A></LI>
+<LI><A HREF="html/reference.html">The SDL Reference</A></LI>
+<UL>
+<LI><A HREF="html/general.html">Initialization</A></LI>
+<LI><A HREF="html/video.html">Video</A></LI>
+<LI><A HREF="html/wm.html">Window Manager</A></LI>
+<LI><A HREF="html/event.html">Event Handling</A></LI>
+<LI><A HREF="html/joystick.html">Joystick</A></LI>
+<LI><A HREF="html/audio.html">Audio</A></LI>
+<LI><A HREF="html/cdrom.html">CDROM</A></LI>
+<LI><A HREF="html/thread.html">Threads</A></LI>
+<LI><A HREF="html/time.html">Timers</A></LI>
+</UL>
+</UL>
+</DIV
+></BODY
+></HTML
+>