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Legacy vs SDL? (ANSWERED, but would like clarification)
« on: September 16, 2010, 05:11:39 pm »
I can't for the life of me find the difference between them. Is there really a difference? If so, what?

ANSWER: I downloaded them both and it seems that the difference has something to do with the way the game runs and is compiled. Anything beyond that is unknown to me. It appears that SDL is made for more graphics?
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Re: Legacy vs SDL? (ANSWERED, but would like clarification)
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2010, 05:54:31 pm »
Graphics, Mac + Linux suppert, and a few other things that elude me now.
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Re: Legacy vs SDL? (ANSWERED, but would like clarification)
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2010, 06:15:28 pm »
Thought so. Thanks
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Re: Legacy vs SDL? (ANSWERED, but would like clarification)
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2010, 06:46:11 pm »
I'm probably horribly wrong, but it seems that legacy is meant as a more stable bug-fixish release, whilst SDL does all the new shit, before it gets put into legacy.
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Re: Legacy vs SDL? (ANSWERED, but would like clarification)
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2010, 06:54:02 pm »
If you look back at 40d, "Legacy" would be plain 0.28.181.40d while "SDL" would be 0.28.181.40d2 thru 0.28.181.40d19.
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Re: Legacy vs SDL? (ANSWERED, but would like clarification)
« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2010, 07:38:15 pm »
SDL uses the Simple Directmedia Layer
http://www.libsdl.org/

to render stuff, legacy uses the old code, i think just the winApi or whatever
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