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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.
17 An introduction to SDL can be found online at:
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21 Tutorials on a variety of topics can be found online at:
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25 Documentation in Wiki form can be found online at:
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31 Sam Lantinga
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35 <H1>Table of Contents
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37 <LI><A HREF=
"html/index.html">Full Table of Contents
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38 <LI><A HREF=
"html/guide.html">The SDL Guide
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39 <LI><A HREF=
"html/reference.html">The SDL Reference
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41 <LI><A HREF=
"html/general.html">Initialization
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42 <LI><A HREF=
"html/video.html">Video
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43 <LI><A HREF=
"html/wm.html">Window Manager
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44 <LI><A HREF=
"html/event.html">Event Handling
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45 <LI><A HREF=
"html/joystick.html">Joystick
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46 <LI><A HREF=
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47 <LI><A HREF=
"html/cdrom.html">CDROM
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48 <LI><A HREF=
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49 <LI><A HREF=
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