SDL_gpu has its first binary release!   If you make games or applications in C or C++, you should give it a spin.

In case you aren’t familiar with it yet, SDL_gpu is an alternative rendering system for SDL 1.2 and SDL 2.0.   It includes everything you need to make amazing, high-performance 2D graphics:

• Fast buffered blits
• Shader support
• Sprite rotation and scaling
• Plenty of 2D primitives (e.g. lines, arcs, circles, rounded rectangles, annulus sectors)
• Render-to-Texture
• An enjoyable basic abstraction (targets and images)
• Virtual resolution and viewports
• 2D camera control
• Built-in support for some popular image formats
• Blend, filter, and wrap modes
• Arbitrary 2D geometry (batched textured triangles)
• Can be used with native OpenGL calls

You can get started at the Google Code page.  There’s some introductory info, documentation, and downloads there.

Tags: OpenGL, SDL, SDL_gpu