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- Short: First beta of SDL library Amiga port.
- Author: Gabriele Greco
- Uploader: gabriele.greco@galactica.it
- Version: 1.0
- Type: dev/misc
-
- This is the first beta version of my SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer)
- port (www.libsdl.org for more info). SDL is available on a wide range
- of systems (linux, windows, beos, mac...) and is used by many
- applications (on the sdl site there is an almost full list).
-
- This archive contains the 68k version, some demos and the includes.
- The API documentation, available in several languages is available in
- the official SDL site (www.libsdl.org).
-
- Actully this version of SDL-Amiga needs:
-
- CyberGraphX v3+ (for video output, CGXAGA untested)
- AHI v4+ (for audio output)
-
- And provides:
-
- - Screens/Windows menagement.
- - Software/Hardware blitting in 8/16/24/32bit (hardware acceleration
- is performed through CGX and may require V4 BITMAPCACHE option).
- - Event handling (keyboard, mouse, windows)
- - Audio
- - Thread menagement (somewhat broken in gcc version)
- - Timer menagement
- - Endian menagement
-
- Not yet done:
- - Joystick and CDRom related API.
-
- The library is actually distributed as linked library, to make debugging
- easier. I've built SAS/C and GCC version of this linked library but it
- seems that the GCC one is less stable than the SAS/C one, maybe for
- problems dued to thread menagement and ixemul.library. A MorphOS version
- of the library is almost ready, and a powerup version in the works.
-
- ***IMPORTANT: This beta version of the library needs a 68020 and a math
- coprocessor to work, and prints a lot of debug informations to the serial
- (you can see it with sushi or a serial terminal). Stable releases will work
- also without coprocessor and will not contain debug output.
-
- Anyway with this version of SDL I've compiled (and run :) ) without
- problems all the demos of the original source distribution and a lot
- of other demos and apps. Included in this distribution there is
- the binary only version of SDLroids, look at www.libsdl.org for the
- source distribution.
-
- Obviously since it's a beta bug reports, detailed if possible, are
- welcome. Source will be added to the official SDL tree as soon as
- it's stable.
-
- SDL is OpenSource, but it's licence make it usable also for development
- of commercial applications.
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-
- Gabriele Greco
- Hurricane Studios
- gabriele.greco@galactica.it
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