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SVGALib

SVGALib
Original author(s) Harm Hanemaayer
Stable release
1.4.3 / June 2, 2001; 15 years ago (2001-06-02)
Preview release
1.9.25
Written in C
Operating system Linux, FreeBSD
Platform x86, x86-64
Type Library
Website www.svgalib.org

SVGAlib is an open-source low-level graphics library which runs on Linux and FreeBSD and allows programs to change video mode and display full-screen graphics. Some popular games like Quake and Doom have been ported to use SVGAlib.

The library was popular in mid-1990s. Toward 2000, many applications that used it migrated to X11 and SDL, which itself can make use of SVGAlib as a video driver.

A sample of SVGAlib code is shown below.


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