DirectX for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Using This Game Designing Environment from Microsoft"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

DirectX is a game programming environment for Windows, developed by Microsoft. DirectX enables higher performance in graphics and sound, thus making it a logical choice for games.

You can download DirectX free from Microsoft simply to view online movies and other multimedia.

It provides a standard development platform for Windows-based PCs by enabling software developers to access specialized hardware features without having to write hardware-specific code. This technology dates back to 1995 and so it is now a recognized standard for multimedia application development on the Windows platform.

For games programmers and other multimedia developers, DirectX is "an advanced suite of multimedia application programming interfaces (APIs) built into Microsoft Windows® operating systems."

The DirectX APIs provide access to developers to the advanced features of high-performance hardware, including 3-D graphics acceleration chips and sound cards. Using these APIs developers can control such low, machine-level functions as 2-D graphics acceleration, input devices such as joysticks, keyboards and mice and control of sound mixing and sound output.

DirectX contains Direct 3D, an extensive graphics library for 3 dimensional visuals, though can also be used with two dimensional games. Or create your own artwork with Direct Draw

DirectX was written with Visual C++ and is powerful - used by most games programming professionals.

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