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Replaced Mac OS X's C++ cdrom code with almost-direct translation to C. Sam requested this effort on the mailing list, apparently because of binary compatibility issues between 10.4 and earlier systems (or gcc4 and earlier compilers?). Works fine with SDL12/test/testcdrom.c, with this command line: ./testcdrom -status -list -play -sleep 5000 -pause -sleep 3000 -resume \ -sleep 5000 -stop -sleep 3000 -play -sleep 3000 -stop \ -sleep 3000 -eject Unix Makefiles work, XCode project still need updating for new filenames.
author Ryan C. Gordon <icculus@icculus.org>
date Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:48:16 +0000
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>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
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>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
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environment, and compiled using the EGCS C++ compiler under BeOS.</P
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>An introduction to SDL can be found online at:
<A
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>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
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>For an introduction to basic multi-media programming concepts, you might try
some of the following links:
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>Game Programming Links</A
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><A
HREF="http://developer.dungeon-crawl.com/"
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>Enjoy!</P
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>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sam Lantinga
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<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>
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<LI><A HREF="html/general.html">Initialization</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="html/video.html">Video</A></LI>
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<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>
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