in case somebody wonders what we do with the donations
well i just bought real-time rendering (2nd edition) with it;-)
frodo
get the second edition (i have both, the second has a lot of new material).
people interested in directx on the pc should download the dx9 sdk summer update here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloa....lang=en
also note that gpu gems appears to cover v2 pixel shaders which aren't supported on xbox (but are supported on a pc with a dx9 capable card).
i love the dx9 stuff now, compared to the dx8 crop of programmable hardware it's so much less restrictive. as an addition, if you're *really really* interested in directx on the pc, you can get on the dx9 beta and get the 2004 summer update sdk, which has an early version of a neat tool for windows, similar to pix. great stuff
-mezz