Commit 3470d1df authored by Sam Lantinga's avatar Sam Lantinga

Updated docs for SDL 1.2.10 release

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>Introduction</TITLE
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><A
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>Introduction</A
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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,
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<HEAD><TITLE>Simple DirectMedia Layer Introduction</TITLE></HEAD>
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<H2><A NAME="AEN8">Simple DirectMedia Layer Introduction</A></H2>
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This library is designed to make it easy to write games that run on many
different platforms 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
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portable applications can be written with a great deal of flexibility.
</P><P>
An introduction to SDL can be found online at:
<A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/intro.php" TARGET="_top">
http://www.libsdl.org/intro.php</A>
</P><P>
Tutorials on a variety of topics can be found online at:
<A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/tutorials.php" TARGET="_top">
http://www.libsdl.org/tutorials.php</A>
</P><P>
Documentation in Wiki form can be found online at:
<A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi/" TARGET="_top">
http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi/</A>
</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>
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