Cross-platform Game Development Library SDL 1.2.9 Released

Written by David Budde | Monday, August 29, 2005

Version 1.2.9 of the Simple DirectMedia Layer Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL), a cross-platform game development library, has been released.

The new version adds the following features and bug fixes:

• Altivec optimized blitters
• Fixed crash trying to allocate hardware surfaces on MacOS X
• Dropping a document onto an SDL app passes it as a command line parameter in MacOS X
• Added support for direct color 8-bpp surfaces
• Fixed short read problem with SDL_RWFromMem()
• SDL_OPENGLBLIT is officially obsolete
• Fixed potential crash in multi-threaded timers
• SIGTERM and SIGINT handlers are reset when SDL shuts down
• Added support for Tru64 UNIX 4.X
• Added support for SDL_VIDEO_X11_NODIRECTCOLOR on OpenGL visuals
• Improved RISC OS support
• YUV mmx code should compile with gcc 2.x and 3.x
• SDL.dll works on Windows 95 again
• Fixed gcc parse errors in SDL_audio.h on Windows
• Added support for Visual C++ 2005 (Express Beta 2) to VisualC.zip
• Numerous improvements to the Atari port
• Fixed hang on shutdown using framebuffer console on ia64

Related Links: Download SDL 1.2.9

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