SDL SDL - Cross-platform library designed to make it easy to write multimedia software, such as games and emulators
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SDL - Cross-platform library designed to make it easy to write multimedia software, such as games and emulators SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power."SDL supports Mac OS X, Linux, Mac OS, BeOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Windows, Windows CE, Solaris, IRIX, and QNX. The code contains support for AmigaOS, Dreamcast, Atari, AIX, OSF/Tru64, RISC OS, SymbianOS, and OS/2, but these are not officially supported.SDL is written in C, but works with C++ natively, and has bindings to several other languages, including Ada, C#, D, Eiffel, Erlang, Euphoria, Guile, Haskell, Java, Lisp, Lua, ML, Objective C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Pike, Pliant, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk, and Tcl.

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