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The Simple Directmedia Library, SDL, is designed to make it easy to write portable multimedia application that run on Linux, *BSD, MacOS, Win32 and BeOS. By presenting a single source code level API to your application, SDL enables access to the various native high-performance media interfaces for video, audio, etc...

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Other

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• SDL-1.3

SDL documentation wiki in other languages

• SDLDoc-ptBR - Brazilian Portuguese (work in progress)

• SDLDoc-fr - French (not available yet. Help needed <- a partial translation was done, but it's buried deep under spam)

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• SDLDoc-cz - Czech (work in progress)

• SDLDoc-hu - Hungarian (early state, work in progress)

• SDLDoc-ru - Russian (work in progress)

SDL 1.2.13 downloads

• See the SDL download page or click here for previous releases

• Unofficial and partial download mirroir sf.net/projects/libsdl

Source

• SDL-1.2.13.tar.gz

• SDL-1.2.13.tar.gz.sig (GPG signed)

• SDL-1.2.13-1.src.rpm

• SDL-1.2.13-1.src.rpm.sig (GPG signed)

• SDL-1.2.13.zip

• SDL-1.2.13.zip.sig (GPG signed)

• SDL-1.2.13.sea.bin

• SDL-1.2.13.sea.bin.sig (GPG signed)

• SDL-1.2.14.sea.bin.sig (GPG signed)

• MacOS: SDL-devel-1.2.13-PPC.sea.bin

• Mac OS X: SDL-devel-1.2.13-extras.dmg

Places to discuss and ask questions

• The mailing list: lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org

• There is a channel called #sdl in irc.freenode.net, we'd like you to come there

SDL API English documentation credits

The SDL API documentation in English is based on the original SDL documentation project done by (in alphabetical order)

• Martin Donlon
• Mattias Engdegård
• Ken Jordan

• Sam Lantinga

• Julian Peterson
• Wesley Poole
• Maxim Sobolev
• Andreas Umbach
• Michael Vance

Ongoing SDL documentation wiki revision

• NeoNeurone

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