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Thank you for downloading photon,
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Photon is an API which is designed primarily to ease creation of hardware
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accelerated 2D games with OpenGL and other open source & cross platform
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libraries. Photon aims to simplify portable game development, enabling
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developers to focus on the gameplay. Photon uses OpenGL for hardware accelerated
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rotation, alpha blending, resizing, and drawing. Photon is built entirely on
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free software, using libraries including including GLFW, PhysFS, OpenAL, Corona,
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Freetype and boost.. Using Photon does not require knowledge of any of these
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libraries as their needed functionality is wrapped entirely within Photon’s rich
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class library so that anyone with a decent grasp of C++ can use Photon.
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photon is a cross platform API, designed primarily for game development.
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photon is designed to run on as many operating systems as possible, and OS
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support is only limited by libraries which Photon depends on, at the moment
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photon should run on Windows, Linux, OSX, and other Operating Systems
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which have OpenGL support.
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If this is a source distribution you'll need to build photon before you can use
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it in your own applications, for details on how to build and install photon
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check out INSTALL.html
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If this is a binary distribution you can start using photon right away by
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linking the photon library (found in the lib/ subfolder) and it's dependencies
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with your applications.
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If you need any help or have any questions check out IFAQ.html or visit photon's
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homepage at http://photon.sourceforge.net/.
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$Id: README.txt,v 1.3 2005/11/15 06:01:12 cozman Exp $
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