All very well, but why would one want to invest any effort in a doomed proprietary system?
my inner geek writes:
> Today Microsoft released their DirectX 7.0 SDK.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1999/Sept99/DirectX7pr.htm
>
> While the download is rather large at 129Mb, I expect it'll be worth
> the wait.
>
> Finally, for those of us mere mortals who are frustrated with C++ but
> can manage to program in Visual Basic, VB can now access the API for
> 3D graphics and sound.
>
> The SDK includes VB examples.