DirectX 9 to DirectX 7

[cronodragon]

I want to port my engine, downgrading it from DX9 to DX7 to run applications on old machines... Could you recommend any library?

I'm using Clootie's libs which are component-less and my engine doesn't use the VCL. I played with DelphiX in the past, and it's not helpful since the current status of the license is unknown and is based on components.

Regards!

[czar]

DelphiX is made using Eric Unger's DirectX 7 headers (I believe) so maybe you can find those?

[cronodragon]

I'll check for them.

By the way, I was looking at DelphiX headers, more specifical to DirectX.pas, and the comment reads like this:


(*================================================ ==========================;
*
* Copyright (C) 1994-1999 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
*
* DirectX header version 98.11.20
*
* Present by Hiroyuki Hori.


The Copyright owner is Microsoft... that means it's under the license of DX SDK, not under DelphiX license, I guess. If so, I could use integrate it to my code without legal problems.

And after clicking one hundred links I was lucky to find the whole Direct X 7a SDK!! WOHOOO!! 8)