Okay then.

Well that didn't take as long as I'd thought it would. I said I'd have the engine finished by wednesday and it is now finished. I have a simple app loading an image and displaying it where your mouse is, rendering text, playing music in the background and asking at run time if you want to use DX or OpenGL. All in all I'm quite happy with how it turned out. Its definately made the prospect of making a bigger engine for porpper use seem much more feasable.

So I'm going to start another mini-project tomorrow. I think I'll finally sit down and learn the DX sample framework, and maybe write something interesting in it. I've been avoiding it for no real reason. I've seen a fair few people on the boards post screenies of their sample apps which use the framework and it seems quite handy.