I HATE MICROSOFT.COM!!!!

Sorry mate, only available for download from microsoft. A couple of guys on this forum were selling it on CD (they obviously downloaded it) - do a search on this forum to find them.

Neil

(Or get a REALLY fast internet connection)

www.drunkenhyena.com, you can buy it there.

Microsoft said they sold it on CD but I could''t find where!

thedo-are you australian???

Microsoft said they sold it on CD but I could''t find where!

thedo-are you australian???

Try searching for "Merchant Gateway" or something? I seem to remember the DX7.0a and DX8.0 SDK''s were really hard to find... and it was just luck I managed to get it 180mb is a little steep for my 56k connection as well...

Jack;

Isn''t there an upgrade from Directx 8 that is a little less to download? I just downloaded Directx 8 a few months ago. I don''t want to go through that again.

I''m lucky to have a MSDN subscription with work so we get Direct X regular updates among with all the other Microsoft products. You could try buying a Direct3D book, these come with d3d8 sdk - I know there are not that many of d3d8 books but I''ve bought two in the past and got the sdk with them - just a suggestion!

I could send you one of the directx8 sdk''s I have but I don''t know if that would be breaking any copyright laws etc? Comments please ?

Reg''ds
Steve

If it is just the time necessary to do the download (and not money if your ISP charges you by the hour/megabyte) then get a download manager so you can break up the download and continue later. The problem with this is that many of those managers are spyware. But what you can do is open up your internet options and bump up the size of your disk cache to something huge and start downloading. IE will then be able to resume it just fine.

I downloaded it on a 56k modem, and I downloaded a 500+mb file before this way

Also, if you are in Sydney and have a CD burner, then I could download it for you and you come around and burn it for yourself

Trying is the first step towards failure.

i neither in sydney or have a cd burner. I have Download Accelerator Plus and it works fine, I kjust wanted the SDK faster

Did you read the license agreement in DAP? It''s scary.

I use getright.

Funny you should mention that I''m Australian - I''m not.
I downloaded the SDK at uni at a rate of 800k a second. It took longer to burn it on CD than download it. LOL!

Neil

I never read liscence agreements!!!

You will once you''ve read the license agreement in DAP. Take a look for yourself...

I can;t find it, what does it say?

Copied and pasted quote from the DAP License agreement:

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holy shyt!!

thats scary, its like theyre nazis/commies/fascists or they just work for the US government



they should be put of business and their misery

"Those who serve no purpose, have no purpose"

????, solution : ad-aware!

What role play the FBI in this?

yeah I got ad-aware, DAP''s liscence doesn;t scare me that much, after I''m done my 170MB DX SDK dload, i''m gonna get some other download managere. I have done 120mb so far. wooooooppeeeee!!(goldberg LOL)

You guys know the rules here - no talk about warez and/or illegal software (under which cracks fall)...

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Thanks to Kylotan for the idea!