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Author Topic: What is the difference between SDL and Legacy version  (Read 909 times)

jakeread1

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What is the difference between SDL and Legacy version
« on: February 28, 2012, 06:29:28 pm »

What is the difference
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Re: What is the difference between SDL and Legacy version
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2012, 06:54:17 pm »

SDL (Simple Direct Media Layer) incorporates a lot of graphical improvements like scaling the window with the mouse, True Type font, ect....

Legacy exists for the very small minority of people for whom the SDL version simply doesn't work, usually because they have very old machines.
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Re: What is the difference between SDL and Legacy version
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2012, 06:57:32 pm »

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