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  2. Microsoft Windows SDK - Wikipedia

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    Platform SDK is the successor of the original Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 3.1x and Microsoft Win32 SDK for Windows 9x.It was released in 1999 and is the oldest SDK. Platform SDK contains compilers, tools, documentations, header files, libraries and samples needed for software development on IA-32, x64 and IA-64 CPU architectures. .

  3. DirectPlay - Wikipedia

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    DirectPlay was supported in DirectX DLLs for the lifetime of Microsoft Windows XP. However, starting from the autumn of 2007, the headers and libraries — vital components if developers wanted to develop new programs utilizing the technology — were removed from the DirectX SDK.

  4. D3DX - Wikipedia

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    In DirectX 7 this was typically done using the DirectDraw API, which is deprecated. The programmer typically needs only to call the ID3DXSprite object's Begin() method to set up the render state and world transform for 2D drawing, call the Draw() method to add textures to the list to be drawn and finally call the End() method to draw the images ...

  5. DirectX - Wikipedia

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    The DirectX software development kit (SDK) consists of runtime libraries in redistributable binary form, along with accompanying documentation and headers for use in coding. Originally, the runtimes were only installed by games or explicitly by the user.

  6. Direct3D - Wikipedia

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    The first version of Direct3D shipped in DirectX 2.0 (June 2, 1996) and DirectX 3.0 (September 26, 1996). Direct3D initially implemented an "immediate mode" 3D API and layered upon it a "retained mode" 3D API. [18] Both types of API were already offered with the second release of Reality Lab before Direct3D was released. [16]

  7. Cross-platform Audio Creation Tool - Wikipedia

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    Cross-platform Audio Creation Tool (XACT) is an audio programming library and engine released by Microsoft as part of the DirectX SDK. [1] It is a high-level audio library for authoring/playing audio that is written to use Xaudio on the Xbox, DirectSound on Windows XP, and the new audio stack on Windows Vista and Windows 7.

  8. Graphics Device Interface - Wikipedia

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    The Graphics Device Interface in the architecture of Windows NT For example GDK makes use of GDI.. The Graphics Device Interface (GDI) is a legacy component of Microsoft Windows responsible for representing graphical objects and transmitting them to output devices such as monitors and printers.

  9. Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform - Wikipedia

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    Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP) [1] is a software rasterizer and a component of DirectX graphics runtime in Windows 7 and later. It is available for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 through platform update for Windows Vista.