Original author(s) | Harm Hanemaayer[1] |
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Developer(s) | Matan Ziv-Av |
Stable release | 1.4.3
/ June 2, 2001[2] |
Preview release | 1.9.25[2]
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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 ran on Linux and FreeBSD and allowed programs to change video mode and display full-screen graphics, without the use of a windowing system.[3][4] Alongside X11 and the General Graphics Interface, it was one of the earliest libraries allowing graphical video games on Linux.
This started out as a direct port of xasteroids to run under svgalib (super-vga graphics library by Harm Hanemaayer)