Ok I'm having a problem with this book (see title) unfortunately I bought first edition instead of the second. It is out of date he uses VB 6 and I use VB 2008 but that's not the problem. The problem is he has a CD that has direct X 8 and I'm supposed to download it. As you probably know Direct X 8 doesn't work with VB 08. So my question are there any other free graphics software that will work with VB and this book?

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Thanks a lot. I hope to be making games soon.