We've got a request for a 2d Side Scroller platform game that will run on Win 9x etc. with out a graphics card. Most of our experience is with more sophisticated engines that use at least a basic graphics card, (given that they are usually add ons to 3D engines). Does anyone know of a good engine that has some physics, collisions etc, but also has the engine open enough to allow custom programming (ie not just a game builder kind of point and click development engine.) We have funds to pay for such an engine...

You could check out the source to the old abuse game. Crack dot com released the source into public domain. The fRaBs project has made a fixes and improvements

Does anyone know how to do panels, special effects etc. using SDL?
Thanks