Here's something that looks cool. I was looking up something on the library site for Simple Media Direct Layer and I saw a reference to Civil, a networked multiplayer game of strategy set duing the (American) Civil War. Since I live in an former battleground and keep running across more and more of the historical markers in my neighborhood, my interest in the Civil War is increasing (never saw the Ken Burns documentary that so inflamed everyone else - yet another party I am late to). The beauty of SDL is that this thing is available in Linux, Windows, MacOS X, and BSD versions. Nice! I must check this out. Then the problem usually becomes the fact that I have no one to play the game with.