For games and emulators we do need this, so we need to install SDL.Īt the time that I’m writing this article, SDL 2.0 is already available, but MAME isn’t compatible with that just yet. SDL, Simple Directmedia Layer, is a framework or library that allows cross-platform development of applications that need low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL or Direct3D.
The following steps will do all this just in more detail … Step 1 – Download and Install the SDL framework
For the impatient, like myself at times, here the very short version: