3 =head1 Simple DirectMedia Library Bindings for Perl
7 SDL Perl are a set of bindings to the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL).
9 'Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick,
10 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the
11 award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power."' --L<www.libsdl.org>
13 SDL Perl is an active and exciting project with many facets. Explore this website to learn more.
15 =head3 Getting Started
17 To begin using SDL Perl read the tutorials and documentation.
25 Talk to us on channel L<#sdl|http://widget.mibbit.com/?settings=89f140215d60860684cee2f6a917607f&server=irc.perl.org&channel=%23sdl> .
29 Send us an email at L<mailing list| mailto:sdl-devel@perl.org>.
31 =item Testing and Development
33 Join us on the trac L<site| http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl> to get started on making and grabing tickets.
35 To begin testing read L<this| http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/wiki/Testing>.
45 L<SDL 2.5|http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore> RC is on CPAN! The new API has many changes and much more improvements. So check it out ;o)
47 SDL Perl at v2.2.6 on CPAN is the last of it's kind which will have the old API.
49 =head3 Active Development
51 SDL Perl is being actively developed to v3.0. The process is as below:
59 Make SDL work with Frozen Bubble
61 Frozen Bubble is being reviewed as we speak! Until then
63 cpan Games::FrozenBubble