libdgl/README.md
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# libDGL
libDGL is a "retro coding" C library aimed at MS-DOS
[VGA Mode 13h](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_13h) game development. It is developed with
DJGPP with 486 DX2 systems as a baseline target for performance.
The project is developed with Watcom C 10.0b.
### Why?
Because it's fun.
If you were looking for something for "retro" MS-DOS game development that is fully featured,
really performant and bug-tested that's ready right now, have a look at Allegro 3.x or possibly
4.x depending on what hardware you're targetting.
### Status
This library is currently under early development and is lacking many things and probably
chock-full of bugs.
**Done / Mostly Done**
* Primitive drawing support
* Text rendering
* Blitting
* Graphics clipping
* Keyboard input
* Mouse input
* PCX loading/saving
* Math library (general helpers, 2D vector, 3x3 matrix)
* Fixed point math
* Basic error handling / results
**TODO**
* Scaled/rotated blitting support
* Blending
* "Mode 7" like support
* Custom font loading (BIOS-like format?)
* Joystick / Gravis GamePad support
* PC speaker sounds
* Sound Blaster compatible sound/music
* Gravis Ultrasound compatible sound/music
* Sine/cosine lookup table optimizations
* BMP, LBM, GIF image loading (and saving?)