> Microsoft has only kept the documentation for the DX8 version of EnumDevices left online

This saddens me. Who knows how much valuable info has been lost. I recall back in the days of MSDN, we had docs back to early Windows, and it was a wonderful historical record. Today's Docs site seems to keep info only for a few versions.

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falcor84 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Another good reason to support independent internet archives

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bitwize 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Anybody who still has MSDN Library CDs from the 90s, archive them at archive.org NOW!

	▲	seritools 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		AFAIK they are all backed up. For the blogpost I used the DX5 SDK docs, DX7 SDK docs, and the MSDN Library from VS2005 (last version to include 9x information). The VS2008 version purged all API information regarding pre-Windows 2000.
	▲	netsharc 39 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Oh geez, I have them, probably from the 00's. I tried to get into Windows programming, but it was all over my head. Incredible that a few decades after thinking "All the world's knowledge will be online", we probably have to return to physical libraries to find the knowledge that ended up not being online anymore.

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bayindirh 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why share something which you can sell for exorbitant prices? /s