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SVGALib, the Glossary

SVGAlib is an open-source low-level graphics library which ran on Linux and FreeBSD and allowed programs to change video mode and display full-screen graphics, without the use of a windowing system.^[1]

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Video game development software for Linux

Abuse (video game)

Abuse is a run and gun video game developed by Crack dot Com and published by Electronic Arts in North America and Origin Systems in Europe.

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Ambrosia Software

Ambrosia Software was a predominantly Macintosh software and gaming company founded in 1993 and located in Rochester, New York, U.S. Ambrosia Software was best known for its Macintosh remakes of older arcade games, which began with a 1992 version of Atari, Inc.'s Asteroids from 1979.

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Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing.

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C (programming language)

C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language.

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Dave Taylor (game programmer)

Dave D. Taylor is an American game programmer, best known as a former id Software employee and noted for his work promoting Linux gaming.

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Descent (video game)

Descent is a first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay Productions in 1995 for MS-DOS, and later for Macintosh, PlayStation, and RISC OS.

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Descent II

Descent II is a 1996 first-person shooter game developed by Parallax Software and first published for DOS by Interplay Productions.

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Doom (1993 video game)

Doom is a first-person shooter game developed and published by id Software.

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FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).

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Game Developer (website)

Game Developer (known as Gamasutra until 2021) is a website created in 1997 that focuses on aspects of video game development.

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General Graphics Interface

General Graphics Interface (GGI) was a project that aimed to develop a reliable, stable and fast computer graphics system that works everywhere. SVGALib and General Graphics Interface are video game development software for Linux.

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Heretic (video game)

Heretic is a dark fantasy first-person shooter video game released in December 1994.

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Hexen II

Hexen II is a dark fantasy first-person shooter (FPS) video game developed by Raven Software and published by id Software in 1997.

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Hexen: Beyond Heretic

Hexen: Beyond Heretic is a fantasy first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software and published by id Software distributed through GT Interactive on October 30, 1995.

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Home of the Underdogs

Home of the Underdogs (often called HotU) is an abandonware archive founded by Sarinee Achavanuntakul, in October 1998.

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Ibiblio

ibiblio (formerly SunSITE.unc.edu and MetaLab.unc.edu) is a "collection of collections", and hosts a diverse range of publicly available information and open source content, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.

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Id Software

id Software LLC is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas.

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Library (computing)

In computer science, a library is a collection of read-only resources that is leveraged during software development to implement a computer program.

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Lincity

Lincity is a free and open-source software construction and management simulation game, which puts the player in control of managing a city's socio-economy, similar in concept to SimCity.

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LinkedIn is a business and employment-focused social media platform that works through websites and mobile apps.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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Linux Gazette

The Linux Gazette was a monthly self-published Linux computing webzine, published between July 1995 and June 2011.

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Linux Journal

Linux Journal (LJ) is an American monthly technology magazine originally published by Specialized System Consultants, Inc. (SSC) in Seattle, Washington since 1994.

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Linux Mint

Linux Mint is a community-driven Linux distribution based on Ubuntu (which is in turn based on Debian), bundled with a variety of free and open-source applications.

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Maelstrom (1992 video game)

Maelstrom is a multidirectional shooter developed by Andrew Welch and released as shareware in November 1992 for Mac OS.

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MAME

MAME (formerly an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator designed to recreate the hardware of arcade games, video game consoles, old computers and other systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Multi Emulator Super System

Multi Emulator Super System (MESS) was an emulator for various consoles and computer systems, based on the MAME core.

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Privilege escalation

Privilege escalation is the act of exploiting a bug, a design flaw, or a configuration oversight in an operating system or software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user.

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Quake (video game)

Quake is a first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive.

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Red Hat Linux

Red Hat Linux was a widely used commercial open-source Linux distribution created by Red Hat until its discontinuation in 2004.

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Sam Lantinga

Sam Oscar Lantinga is a computer programmer.

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Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform software development library designed to provide a hardware abstraction layer for computer multimedia hardware components. SVGALib and Simple DirectMedia Layer are graphics libraries and video game development software for Linux.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVGALib

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