From NeoWin: “We have released the latest version of the DirectX D3D API to compliment the Beta 2 documentation. We recommend you review both the SDK documentation and this specification to assist development using Beta 2 DirectX D3D. The document includes: D3D-9 specs, D3D-9 shader specs, API changes explained, miscellaneous changes explained, sample code.”
DirectX 9.0 API Specification Document
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Any suggestion of a release date for the rest of us?
You’re going straight to hell for that one!
(love that movie.
-Chris Simmons,
Avid BeOS User.
The BeOSJournal.
At this rate 20.0 should be out in about 6 hours or so (yes, i care about version numbers).
http://www.opengl.org/
http://www.openal.org/home/
http://www.libsdl.org/index.php
http://pygame.org/
And you should be smarter too, before posting off topic. This web site is not about open source, we endorse all technologies known to man.
If you want to talk about something, talk about the actual news: discuss about the new features on the new API. This is why this story was posted here. For intelligent discussion about a new/updated technology.
If you want to whine about how GL, or open source is better, or version numbers, go to Slashdot, not here.
To answer to the only on-topic comment so far:
> Any suggestion of a release date for the rest of us?
Traditionally, Microsoft releases DirectX in Autumn.
I didn’t see Ivan saying that opensource is better. He simply pointed at some alternatives that he thinks for either technical and/or ethical reasons are better.
And this is something that I’m expecting(and want) from comments on news sites. People with more knowledge that let me know about what the alternatives are. I admit that his post was a bit trollish though, but it wasn’t off-topic.
I think it is a fore warning. The last few threads even up with closed source vs. open source.
Besides, what mian features does this thing have over 8.1?
Exactly, his post WAS trollish. Whenever we have such articles on osnews, some smart a$$ (who tell US to be smarter) will come to show us these “better alternatives” which happen to not be Microsoft-originated and he does not even explain to us in *fully technical terms* WHY these alternatives are better.
It is just that I had enough of these kinds of comments and my bag of trolling allowance is now full. I will not tollerate them anymore. If you want to comment here, make sure you be ON topic.
This is the last comment about all these things. Anyone replying to this comment or to the above ones (except comment #2), this whole thread will get moderated down, including my own posts.
Well said Eugenia.
The document is an executable – presumably for windows. Does anyone have a document formatted one (html, pdf or whatever) or a web page that explains?
It appeares to be a self extracting EXE. Just open it with unzip or whatever you have on your platform. It contains a couple of html files and a few images.