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<h1>Introduction</h1>
<p>The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is a solution aimed directly at professional and amateur Java programmers alike to enable <a href="projects.php">commercial quality games</a> to be written in Java. LWJGL provides developers access to high performance crossplatform libraries such as OpenGL (<a href="http://www.opengl.org/" target="_blank">Open Graphics Library</a>) and OpenAL (<a href="http://www.openal.org" target="_blank">Open Audio Library</a>) allowing for state of the art 3D games and 3D sound. Additionally LWJGL provides access to controllers such as Gamepads, Steering wheel and Joysticks. All in a simple and straight forward API.</p>
<p>LWJGL is not meant to make writing games particularly easy; it is primarily an enabling technology which allows developers to get at resources that are simply otherwise unavailable or poorly implemented on the existing <a href="http://java.sun.com" target="_blank">Java platform</a>. We anticipate that the LWJGL will, through evolution and extension, become the foundation for more complete game libraries and "game engines" as they have popularly become known, and hide some of the new evils we have had to expose in the APIs.</p>
<p>LWJGL is available under a <a href="license.php">BSD license</a>, which means it's open source and freely available at no charge.</p>
<p>Please visit us on the Freenode IRC Network: <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/lwjgl" target="_blank">#LWJGL</a>. Do idle if there is no one to answer any of your questions, we are on different timezones.</p>
<h1>News</h1>
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<b>Another release! 0.98</b> <span class="newsdate">Thursday, August 18th, 2005</span><br/>
Getting closer to 1.0 with this latest release. <a href="http://lwjgl.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1238">Grab and discuss</a><br/><br/>
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<b>AdSense added</b> <span class="newsdate">Thursday, June 16th, 2005</span><br/>
We have added Google AdSense, which should allow us to cover the cost of hosting lwjgl.org<br/><br/>
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<b>Now for a totally different type of news item!: LWJGL 0.97 released</b> <span class="newsdate">Thursday, May 19th, 2005</span><br/>
Basically this is a bugfix release, but it does contain some new stuff. Please check <a href="http://lwjgl.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1117">this thread</a> for more info regarding the release<br/><br/>
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<b>Finally at last! 0.96 released!</b> <span class="newsdate">Wednesday, March 30th, 2005</span><br/>
This relase includes (among other things) AWT support and expanded DevIL and FMOD support. Please check <a href="http://lwjgl.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7121">this thread</a> for more info regarding the release<br/><br/>
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<b>LWJGL 0.95 released!</b> <span class="newsdate">Tuesday, January 25th, 2005</span><br/>
0.95 released. Lots of fixes. Thanks everybody. Please check <a href="http://lwjgl.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6422">this thread</a> for more info regarding the release<br/><br/>
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<b>LWJGL 0.94 released!</b> <span class="newsdate">Tuesday, December 14th, 2004</span><br/>
Time for yet another relase - this time featuring the long awaited Mac OS X port which was made possible using the donated money. Thanks everybody. Please check <a href="http://lwjgl.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=846">this thread</a> for more info regarding the release<br/><br/>
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