SVGALib
Sign in to saveSVGAlib, styled as "Linux SuperVGA Graphics Library", is a legacy open-source low-level graphics library for accessing SuperVGA hardware on PC-compatible systems running on Linux, with later ports to AmigaOS and FreeBSD. SVGAlib allowed programs to change video mode to display full-screen graphics, without the use of a windowing system. Alongside X11 and the General Graphics Interface, it was one of the earliest libraries allowing graphical video games on Linux.
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SVGAlib, styled as "Linux SuperVGA Graphics Library", is a legacy open-source low-level graphics library for accessing SuperVGA hardware on PC-compatible systems running on Linux, with later ports to AmigaOS and FreeBSD. SVGAlib allowed programs to change video mode to display full-screen graphics, without the use of a windowing system. Alongside X11 and the General Graphics Interface, it was one of the earliest libraries allowing graphical video games on Linux.
Although still available online, SVGAlib has seen no code releases since July 2006 () and would be considered superseded and discontinued.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “SVGALib” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.