SVGAlib was an open-source low-level graphics

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which ran on

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and

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and allowed programs to change

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and display full-screen graphics, without the use of a

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. Some popular games like '' Quake'' and '' Doom'' have been ported to use SVGAlib.

History

The first version of SVGALib was based on version 1.2 of another library, VGALib. SVGALib was popular in the mid-1990s. Toward 2000, many applications that used it migrated to X11 and SDL, which could (until SDL 2.0) make use of SVGAlib as a video driver.

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