The new Chapter 9: Music and Sound has been released. It demonstrates how to use the SDL_mixer 2.0 to load music and sound files to use them in your applications.

I was surprised to find that there have been made many important updates to Tim Blume’s SDL 2.0 units since the latest release (version 1.72). This means for everybody who relies on these units, update to the latest master branch release (later than version 1.72)!

Otherwise you will struggle to get some important sdl features. E.g. key code constants and the code of the new Chapter 9 won’t work. I adapted Chapter 8 about event handling.

An interesting new header translation project was mentioned to me which allows for dynamic loading of SDL 2.0. Check out Chapter 1 to read more about this project by Imants Gulis.

Many smaller updates have been performed, too. Also the color scheme has been updated since it was stated that the contrast of the former color scheme has been too weak. You may also have noticed the amazing new fractal title background image :-)!

Important hint: The Free Pascal compiler got a new stable release on 25th November of 2015, version 3.0.0. Don’t forget to update your favourite compiler :-)!