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SDL 1.3 is like the Duke Nukem Forever of portable game-friendly libraries, I think. Note: I mean this in a very friendly way, I have masses of respect for Sam
by unwind 16y ago
SDL 1.3 is like the Duke Nukem Forever of portable game-friendly libraries, I think.
Note: I mean this in a very friendly way, I have masses of respect for Sam Lantinga and all the other people behind SDL. It just seems they've been working on 1.3 for soo long.
- wladimir 16y agoIn contrary to DNF, though, SDL 1.3 has been usable for ages. But indeed their versioning is a bit strange. There are not many projects which stay at one major/minor version for so long.
- dguaraglia 16y agoYup, I remember learning a bit about SDL ca. 2002/3 and they were already at version 1.x. I think it was 1.1 at the time, then moved to the all-new 1.2. Funnily enough, it seems to be usable enough that a myriad of projects are still using them (and to think I was betting my bottom dollar Allegro would become the library of choice to game devs!)
- the_mitsuhiko 16y ago> It just seems they've been working on 1.3 for soo long. Sam Lantinga recently left blizzard and converted SDL into a commercial project. That shows his commitment to the library, so it's barely a duke nukem forever. Also SDL 1.3 is perfectly useable.