Hello,
I began working on a 2d, tile based scroller, and the graphics requirements are not that demanding. The problem I am facing is that I want to use DX5, but I am having trouble finding any information on it. I have perused the MS website, but they only have DirectX back to 8.0.


Any suggestions or links would be appreciated.

Thanks,
grieve

DirectX 5.0 SDK (http://www.rainfallstudios.com/kablesart/dx5sdk.zip)

Enjoy.

That was fast.
Thanks,
grieve

yes, thank you very much for that! My game(s) use directx5.0 but I was working off dx7.0 sdk since I couldn't find the sdk for dx5.0. Thank you once again!

You should be able to use DX9 (as I do) if you place a define befire the header include it will override the DX9 define in the header basically enabling you to write your application as DX*

as an example from ddraw.h

/*
* If you wish an application built against the newest version of DirectDraw
* to run against an older DirectDraw run time then define DIRECTDRAW_VERSION
* to be the earlies version of DirectDraw you wish to run against. For,
* example if you wish an application to run against a DX 3 runtime define
* DIRECTDRAW_VERSION to be 0x0300.
*/
#ifndef DIRECTDRAW_VERSION
#define DIRECTDRAW_VERSION 0x0700
#endif /* DIRECTDRAW_VERSION */

but remember you have to define before you include the header ;)

Also, here's another URL for the DX5 SDK but it has a link to the docs only, should someone need them.

Get them here (http://nebula.student.utwente.nl/downloads.php) .

Yes, you can use the DX5 interfaces from any subsequent version of DirectX, however finding documentation for those interfaces can be something of a chore, thx for the link carrot. I'll mirror those over at my site as well ;)