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ragincajun

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Game difference
« on: August 19, 2014, 07:55:52 am »
What's the difference between SDL and Legacy when downloading the game?
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Re: Game difference
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2014, 08:07:51 am »
Nevermind.  Found my answer.
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Re: Game difference
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2014, 10:09:04 am »
For the benefit of others, the Legacy version uses the "old" input/output code (used by 0.28.181.40d and earlier), while the SDL version uses SDL for those. The SDL version is notable in that it is the only version that can be used with DFHack (on Linux and MacOS, the only versions available use SDL).

As far as I know, the only reason the Legacy version still exists on Windows is because it gives better performance for some users, and there are a few bugs in the SDL version which do not exist in Legacy (such as death in Adventurer mode not switching to real-time).
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