Just noticed that the Asphyre Component Pack has been updated to version 1.5.2 and can be download from there...

<blockquote>The newest available version is 1.5.2, which contains improvements and additional components over the previously released version. This version includes a preliminary documentation (which is still under development).

Even though for hardware acceleration DirectX 9.0c is needed, applications compiled with Asphyre do not need any external DLLs or DirectX at all!
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The features list can be found here.