1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//Norman Walsh//DTD DocBook HTML 1.0//EN"> 2 <HTML> 3 <HEAD><TITLE>Simple DirectMedia Layer Introduction</TITLE></HEAD> 4 <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFF8DC" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ee" VLINK="#551a8b" ALINK="#ff0000"> 5 <DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER"> 6 <HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"> 7 </DIV> 8 <DIV CLASS="PREFACE"> 9 <H2><A NAME="AEN8">Simple DirectMedia Layer Introduction</A></H2> 10 <P> 11 This library is designed to make it easy to write games that run on many 12 different platforms using the various native high-performance media interfaces, 13 (for video, audio, etc) and presenting a single source-code level API to 14 your application. This is a fairly low level API, but using this, completely 15 portable applications can be written with a great deal of flexibility. 16 </P><P> 17 An introduction to SDL can be found online at: 18 <A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/intro.php" TARGET="_top"> 19 http://www.libsdl.org/intro.php</A> 20 </P><P> 21 Tutorials on a variety of topics can be found online at: 22 <A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/tutorials.php" TARGET="_top"> 23 http://www.libsdl.org/tutorials.php</A> 24 </P><P> 25 Documentation in Wiki form can be found online at: 26 <A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi/" TARGET="_top"> 27 http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi/</A> 28 </P><P> 29 Enjoy! 30 </P><P> 31 Sam Lantinga 32 <TT CLASS="EMAIL"><<A HREF="mailto:slouken (a] libsdl.org"><A HREF="mailto:slouken (a] libsdl.org" TARGET="_top" >slouken (a] libsdl.org</A></A>></TT> 33 </P> <P> 34 <br><br><HR> 35 <H1>Table of Contents</H1> 36 <UL> 37 <LI><A HREF="html/index.html">Full Table of Contents</A></LI> 38 <LI><A HREF="html/guide.html">The SDL Guide</A></LI> 39 <LI><A HREF="html/reference.html">The SDL Reference</A></LI> 40 <UL> 41 <LI><A HREF="html/general.html">Initialization</A></LI> 42 <LI><A HREF="html/video.html">Video</A></LI> 43 <LI><A HREF="html/wm.html">Window Manager</A></LI> 44 <LI><A HREF="html/event.html">Event Handling</A></LI> 45 <LI><A HREF="html/joystick.html">Joystick</A></LI> 46 <LI><A HREF="html/audio.html">Audio</A></LI> 47 <LI><A HREF="html/cdrom.html">CDROM</A></LI> 48 <LI><A HREF="html/thread.html">Threads</A></LI> 49 <LI><A HREF="html/time.html">Timers</A></LI> 50 </UL> 51 </UL> 52 </DIV 53 ></BODY 54 ></HTML 55 > 56
