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01HNNWZ0MV43FFtoday at 9:07 AM2 repliesview on HN

That's some of the same stuff that SDL is meant to abstract over, right? Although I guess SDL was more targeting Windows / Linux differences than Windows / Windows differences.


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Sharlintoday at 10:07 AM

Also Linux/Linux differences – Xlib, SVGAlib, DirectFB, DRI, GGI, DGA and who knows how many other ways to draw stuff on the screen existed for Linux back then.

jon-woodtoday at 10:10 AM

Yeah, also SDL didn't exist until a year after WinQuake's release.