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Amiga Events : Crowdfunding: SDL2(+) for Amiga 68K & WarpOS

Posted by zerec on 2025/10/17 0:50:42 (764 reads) News by the same author

AmigaOS 3.x needs SDL2!

Many modern open-source games (e.g., Stratagus) require SDL2 – but 68k & WarpOS Amigas only have SDL1.2. Time to change that!

💥 Your support makes it possible:

• Port SDL2 to AmigaOS 3.x and WarpOS
• Unlock Stratagus and many other open-source titles
• Stretch Goals: SDL3, SDL2_mixer, SDL2_image, MiniGL

Programmer: Steffen “ MagicSN” Häuser, experienced in Amiga ports.

👉 Support now & roll the next Boing Ball:

Click to GoFundMe

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NinjaCyborg	Published: 2025/10/17 16:35 Updated: 2025/10/17 16:35
Not too shy to talk Joined: 11/17/2020 From: Slough Comments: 458	How different is it? how different is SDL2 from the original?

TheMagicSN	Published: 2025/10/17 17:55 Updated: 2025/10/17 17:55
Not too shy to talk Joined: 11/08/2022 From: Backnang Comments: 378	SDL2 In some ways similar, but some stuff is completely different. Some things are handled with completely different API. Basically they made it a more "modern" API, SDL1 is actually depracated on PC ("recommendation: not to be used anymore" - which is also why now often software appears which has no SDL1 path anymore, or where the SDL1 path turns out to be broken).

Capehill	Published: 2025/10/18 12:55 Updated: 2025/10/18 12:55
Just can't stay away Joined: 07/14/2007 From: Lothric Comments: 1814	Re: How different is it? https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/MigrationGuide

TheMagicSN	Published: 2025/10/21 19:24 Updated: 2025/10/21 19:24
Not too shy to talk Joined: 11/08/2022 From: Backnang Comments: 378	SDL2 @Capehill: Thanks for the list which shows how much more is in it (and you of course know SDL better than any other Amiga user ^^). I BTW started working on the 68k port yesterday. I will start working on the WarpOS version as soon as on 68k I have at least some stuff which is testable. The final version will be set up on github in OpenSource.

Capehill	Published: 2025/10/24 17:52 Updated: 2025/10/24 17:52
Just can't stay away Joined: 07/14/2007 From: Lothric Comments: 1814	Re: SDL2 @TheMagicSN IMHO the best option is to fork the upstream project either in public or private mode. That will help to keep the change history and simplify when you need to update the baseline after new releases.