d3d8 patch

[Christian Costa]

Ann and Jason Edmeades wrote:

>Changelog:
>
>o Various fixes, typos corrected and clarifying trace points
>
>Note I am quickly reaching the end of my ability in this area - This brings
>the wine tree up to date with all my changes, so some help from anyone would
>be appreciated. There are some 'simple' tutorials type dx8 pgms I just cant
>get working and I cant see why - email me if you can help
>
>Additionally, my understanding is in Windows a HAL lives under direct3d and
>earlier directdraw functionality - Does anyone know where the interface is
>actually documented? I have had it mentioned to me it would be better to try
>to make the functionality more common with direct draw and want to see how
>this is done under windows.
>
>Jason
>
Jason,

The Windows HAL is documented in the DDK (Driver Development Kit).
It's a package of 60MBytes or so .

You can find it at :
http://www.microsoft.com/ddk/

If think (but I'm not sure) the actual HAL is the Win98's one.
So you should try the Win98 DDK. It's the one I use.

Christian