Original author(s) | Harm Hanemaayer |
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Stable release |
1.4.3 / June 2, 2001
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Preview release |
1.9.25
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Written in | C |
Operating system | Linux, FreeBSD |
Platform | x86, x86-64 |
Type | Library |
Website | www |
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.