Slowly progress is being made.

Currently i am experimenting with the extentions offered with SDL. Like SDL_Image, SDL_TTF, SDL_GFX, SDL_Mixer, etc.

Adding these sub-components gives a programmer a lot of power with little effort, once it is compiling and linking of course. For windows this is not such a big deal, since i am using Dev C++ , and you can preload the packages.

Since i mostly run the code on my Mac i need to compile things by hand, and it is not always the case that things go that smooth.

But so far, i got SDL_Image working. I need Freetype to work for Mac first, but i lack time.

In short. It works now with SDL_Image, and that means you can give not only BMP files in the resources, but also use PNG, JPG, and some other formats.