DirectX 8.1 SDK where?

Man, those idiots, not keeping 5 year old api SDK's laying around on their website... Unless you have a really good reason, you should be using the latest SDK anyway. However, a little googling found a GD.Net thread about this very thing, with a link inside that still appears to have the file.

http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=315700

Here's what I always use: DX8.1 headers and libs
These are only the necessary files to compile DirectX programs, so no examples or documentation is included. You also will have to setup all the directories yourself.

For good measure, I included the DX8.1 help file also: DX8.1 help file


EDIT: I seem to fall in repetition :) + fixed links

wow, really thanx, when i come back home i'll download them, tyvmuch ^^ (i'm at school right now lol )

I have to ask - Why DX8.1? What's wrong with DX9?

sorry :P but i can't tell it xD

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Original post by Evil Steve I have to ask - Why DX8.1? What's wrong with DX9?

You can't compile an existing DX8.1 project against DX9 without going around the code and making a bunch of changes.

If you need to fix a bug in an old project (or you've been contracted to fix a bug in someone else's old project), you'd probably want to avoid introducing yet more bugs by not re-compiling the thing against a DX version different than the one it was originally built with.

Oh, and

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Original post by Morgawr my email is XXXXX@gmail.com help me thanx :D

I seriously recommend you edit your message and re-write your email so it doesn't look like an e-mail adress (like "myname at gmail dot com" or something). This forum is public, so spambots can easily collect any e-mail adresses posted by users.