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> 11This library is designed to make it easy to write games that run on many 12different platforms using the various native high-performance media interfaces, 13(for video, audio, etc) and presenting a single source-code level API to 14your application. This is a fairly low level API, but using this, completely 15portable applications can be written with a great deal of flexibility. 16</P><P> 17An 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> 21Tutorials 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> 25Documentation 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> 29Enjoy! 30</P><P> 31 Sam Lantinga 32<TT CLASS="EMAIL"><<A HREF="mailto:slouken@libsdl.org"><A HREF="mailto:slouken@libsdl.org" TARGET="_top" >slouken@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