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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>LWJGL 1.0 beta 3 released!</b> <span class="newsdate">Friday, August 19th, 2006</span><br/>
Some extenstions and bugfixes. Please check <a href="http://lwjgl.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1780">this thread</a> for more info regarding the release<br/><br/>
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<b>LWJGL 1.0 beta 2 released!</b> <span class="newsdate">Wednesday, July 12th, 2006</span><br/>
Inching closer - now with applet support!. Please check <a href="http://lwjgl.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1694">this thread</a> for more info regarding the release<br/><br/>
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<b>LWJGL 1.0beta released!</b> <span class="newsdate">Friday, June 2nd, 2006</span><br/>
1.0 Release! - that is a beta of it :). Please check <a href="http://lwjgl.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1646">this thread</a> for more info regarding the release<br/><br/>
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<b>LWJGL 0.99 released!</b> <span class="newsdate">Sunday, December 18th, 2005</span><br/>
Getting closer to 1.0! - but first up, the 0.99 release. Please check <a href="http://lwjgl.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1433">this thread</a> for more info regarding the release<br/><br/>
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<b>Added donations page</b> <span class="newsdate">Thursday, November 10th, 2005</span><br/>
Added a <a href="donations.php">donations page</a> which shows a list of users and/or companies that have donated to LWJGL.<br/><br/>
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<b>LWJGL featured in new Eclipse 3.2 Milestone 3</b> <span class="newsdate">Monday, November 8th, 2005</span><br/>
<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/">Eclipse</a> has been working on an <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/swt/opengl/">SWT/OpenGL</a> component and has released it as part of the 3.2 release. It features LWJGL as the primary 3rdparty OpenGL component. Additionally the <a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.2M3-200511021600/eclipse-news-M3.html">New and Noteworthy</a> page displays a sample screenshot at the top with the following title 'SWT/LWJGL Example'<br/><br/>
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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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