DirectX7 Docs

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Jake L.

(Posted 2006) [#1]

Hi,

I want my little 2D engine to have DirectX support. I went RawGL first for cross platform reasons, but the latest discussions about the poor installbase of good OGL-drivers had changed my mind. So I want two modes for my engine, OpenGL - and DX7 (for everyones office PC without any good graphics driver).

Unluckily M$ decided to drop their DX7 SDK/Online Documentation, and I can't find backups on the net. Anyone has a backup of this? If so, could you mail me just the Docs (.chm? - C/C++ would be fine)? The whole SDK is too large to mail it, right?

jake(AT)bittrap.software.de

Thanks in advance

Jake

tonyg

(Posted 2006) [#2]

Try
Directx7.chm
Full SDK is about 120+Mb

popcade

(Posted 2006) [#3]

A DX 7.0a SDK url(still alive today)

http://www.irradiance.net/Software/Microsoft/directx/7.0a/sdk/w9x/dx7adxf.exe

Try if you can download it.

xMicky

(Posted 2006) [#4]

I just downloadet dx7adxf.exe curiously and got a Message from my Anti Virus Protection: there is a Virus named w32.pinfi included, which was removed now.
Description:
W32.Pinfi is a memory-resident polymorphic virus that will infect the .EXE and .SCR files. This virus can also spread via mapped drives and network shares.

popcade

(Posted 2006) [#5]

That's weird, I borwsed here:
http://www.irradiance.net/Software/Microsoft/directx/
This is a public FTP I know of.

If it's infected, rename it as "zip" file and open with WinRAR/WinZip to avoid infected exe section.

Dreamora

(Posted 2006) [#6]

If you write the DX part yourself, go for DX8+
Even crappy office systems drivers are better optimized to them than to long ago deprecated DX7 (which has to do with the fact that DX8+ restructured/removed some core parts of DX).

Doing a DX7 thing is most likely a death birth ... especially when thinking of using it beyond 2006 ... Which I would assume as writting something just to drop it directly again wouldn't make much sense.

B3D / BM suffer of enough problem that are bound to stoneage-iness of DX7 and modern hardware makers not writting their drivers for that depricated API.

popcade

(Posted 2006) [#7]

Just found DX81 SDK here, in case you need as MS dropped them from their site.

http://ftp.up.ac.za/pub/windows/microsoft/service-packs/directx/directx8/

Jake L.

(Posted 2006) [#8]

Thanks to all of you, I got Docs for DX7/8. I'll do DX8 first, maybe 7 later. Can't be a big issue to implement both - I "just" need a texture, vertexbuffers and projection matrices. The hardest part would be to wrap my head around the way DX work. Hmmm, RawGL was so easy and fun to play with.