Yes, I think that's likely. The titles I've contributed to or worked on generally don't have networking, threading, or muck about with the filesystem. They us

Yes, I think that's likely. The titles I've contributed to or worked on generally don't have networking, threading, or muck about with the filesystem. They usually are single-threaded, have a single file archive or open files from a single directory (without any searching or the like). Surprised you've run into IPC use at all really. I have had to deal with the file case-sensitivity issue, but that's usually not the most difficult issue to resolve. SDL_physfs and SDL itself provides solutions for a lot of the usual hackery in dealing with file I/O though. Never had to deal with Endian issues as I've only been involved with ports that ran on x86. Still, I'd say that the parts that SDL provides abstractions for are the parts that I least want to deal with -- especially when it comes to input handling or dealing with screen resolution changes. Years of knowledge there.