Hermes 1.3.3

Hermes is a graphics library designed for a very limited number of things and do very well. Hermes is a graphics library designed to make a very limited number of things and do very well. It is also very easy to incorporate Hermes in the existing code. Hermes is intended to be used directly in an application program or within another graphics library. Distributed under the GNU Public Library License (LGPL), it is open source and under continuous improvement. The feature list includes things like: Palette handlingClearing Surfaces to a specific colorHighlights are: Convert images from one format to anotherConverting to / from many common formats using special optimized conversion fallback to routinesAutomatic generic conversion routines if there is no specialized routineStretching between images when dithering possibleAutomatic conversion requestedAll if the features are implemented using a system of internal cache to drastically improve the performance of current operations such as research table. In addition, on MMX systems, Hermes can use the MMX assembler optimized to further improve performance. It is portable across many systems: Linux / FreeBSD: use routines in assembler for the Intel / Intel compatible architecturesOther UNIX systems: Do not use assembler, if it is compatible with the big-endian systemsDOS and Watcom C or DJGPP: Use routinesWindows assembler and Visual C + +: Uses assembler routines