Original author(s) Written in C Platform x86, x86-64 | Preview release 1.9.25 Operating system | |
Stable release 1.4.3 / June 2, 2001; 15 years ago (2001-06-02) | ||
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.
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History
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.
Sample
A sample of SVGAlib code is shown below.
References
SVGALib Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA