On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 01:48:48PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Declan Moriarty wrote: > > > The Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL for short) is a cross-platform > > library designed to make it easy to write multimedia software, > > such as games and emulators. > > > > --- > > What was that about? It's either invaluable or valueless, ... > > SDL seems to be useful for gamers (some games need it to be > present).
prboom (a Doom port) uses it, so I consider it essential. It's also the basis for smpeg (a minimal MPEG player) which I find useful. Cheers, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
