lib3ds is an overall software library for managing 3D-Studio Release 3 and 4 ".3DS" files. It is a free alternative to Autodesk's 3DS File Toolkit for managing 3DS files. It started out in 1996 to be released in 1999 under the GNU General Public License (GPL) as Open-Source software. In 2000, the library was completely rewritten in ANSI-C to attain more hardware platform independence. To enable commercial application the license was changed to GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

I ported lib3ds to OS/2, eCS using IBM OpenGL/WarpMesaGL, SNAP Graphics SDK OpenGL.

ZIP archive contains:

1) modified lib3ds source code.

2) compiled library lib3ds.lib and lib3ds.dll.

3) modified 3ds player source code.

3) compiled 3ds player file for OpenGL v1.0 and v1.1.