DirectX Turns 10

The age of Longhorn gaming nears..

Wednesday, June 29, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News

DirectX started out as a rogue operation at Microsoft.  Back in 1995, the future of gaming at Microsoft was something called WinG.  But a group of renegades at Microsoft had a different vision and created DirectX.  Now, at 10, DirectX has evolved into quite a powerful, fully featured, game development environment.

GameDaily Biz has an interview with Chris Donahue at Microsoft over the past and future of DirectX and what it'll mean as Longhorn approaches.

GreenReaper
Reply #1 Wednesday, June 29, 2005 9:38 PM
I remember when DirectX was new, back when it was called the Game SDK. Still got a manual from then - in fact, it's holding up my monitor.

Fun times . . .
thomassen
Reply #2 Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:49 AM
heh! I thought that a new version of DirectX was out. doh!
Dark-Star
Reply #3 Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:14 PM
lol Me too! I was like, "What! No official announcement from M$? Where can I download it!"
thecat2000
Reply #4 Saturday, July 2, 2005 10:08 AM
title appears a little misleading me thinks

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