1<HTML 2><HEAD 3><TITLE 4>Preface</TITLE 5><META 6NAME="GENERATOR" 7CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ 8"><LINK 9REL="HOME" 10TITLE="SDL Library Documentation" 11HREF="index.html"><LINK 12REL="UP" 13TITLE="SDL Guide" 14HREF="guide.html"><LINK 15REL="PREVIOUS" 16TITLE="SDL Guide" 17HREF="guide.html"><LINK 18REL="NEXT" 19TITLE="About SDLdoc" 20HREF="guideaboutsdldoc.html"></HEAD 21><BODY 22CLASS="PREFACE" 23BGCOLOR="#FFF8DC" 24TEXT="#000000" 25LINK="#0000ee" 26VLINK="#551a8b" 27ALINK="#ff0000" 28><DIV 29CLASS="NAVHEADER" 30><TABLE 31SUMMARY="Header navigation table" 32WIDTH="100%" 33BORDER="0" 34CELLPADDING="0" 35CELLSPACING="0" 36><TR 37><TH 38COLSPAN="3" 39ALIGN="center" 40>SDL Library Documentation</TH 41></TR 42><TR 43><TD 44WIDTH="10%" 45ALIGN="left" 46VALIGN="bottom" 47><A 48HREF="guide.html" 49ACCESSKEY="P" 50>Prev</A 51></TD 52><TD 53WIDTH="80%" 54ALIGN="center" 55VALIGN="bottom" 56></TD 57><TD 58WIDTH="10%" 59ALIGN="right" 60VALIGN="bottom" 61><A 62HREF="guideaboutsdldoc.html" 63ACCESSKEY="N" 64>Next</A 65></TD 66></TR 67></TABLE 68><HR 69ALIGN="LEFT" 70WIDTH="100%"></DIV 71><DIV 72CLASS="PREFACE" 73><H1 74><A 75NAME="GUIDEPREFACE" 76></A 77>Preface</H1 78><DIV 79CLASS="TOC" 80><DL 81><DT 82><B 83>Table of Contents</B 84></DT 85><DT 86><A 87HREF="guidepreface.html#GUIDEABOUTSDL" 88>About SDL</A 89></DT 90><DT 91><A 92HREF="guideaboutsdldoc.html" 93>About SDLdoc</A 94></DT 95><DT 96><A 97HREF="guidecredits.html" 98>Credits</A 99></DT 100></DL 101></DIV 102><DIV 103CLASS="SECT1" 104><H1 105CLASS="SECT1" 106><A 107NAME="GUIDEABOUTSDL" 108></A 109>About SDL</H1 110><P 111>The SDL library is designed to make it easy to write games that run on Linux, *BSD, MacOS, Win32 and BeOS using the various native high-performance media interfaces, (for video, audio, etc) and presenting a single source-code level API to your application. SDL is a fairly low level API, but using it, completely portable applications can be written with a great deal of flexibility.</P 112></DIV 113></DIV 114><DIV 115CLASS="NAVFOOTER" 116><HR 117ALIGN="LEFT" 118WIDTH="100%"><TABLE 119SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" 120WIDTH="100%" 121BORDER="0" 122CELLPADDING="0" 123CELLSPACING="0" 124><TR 125><TD 126WIDTH="33%" 127ALIGN="left" 128VALIGN="top" 129><A 130HREF="guide.html" 131ACCESSKEY="P" 132>Prev</A 133></TD 134><TD 135WIDTH="34%" 136ALIGN="center" 137VALIGN="top" 138><A 139HREF="index.html" 140ACCESSKEY="H" 141>Home</A 142></TD 143><TD 144WIDTH="33%" 145ALIGN="right" 146VALIGN="top" 147><A 148HREF="guideaboutsdldoc.html" 149ACCESSKEY="N" 150>Next</A 151></TD 152></TR 153><TR 154><TD 155WIDTH="33%" 156ALIGN="left" 157VALIGN="top" 158>SDL Guide</TD 159><TD 160WIDTH="34%" 161ALIGN="center" 162VALIGN="top" 163><A 164HREF="guide.html" 165ACCESSKEY="U" 166>Up</A 167></TD 168><TD 169WIDTH="33%" 170ALIGN="right" 171VALIGN="top" 172>About SDLdoc</TD 173></TR 174></TABLE 175></DIV 176></BODY 177></HTML 178>