2d game programming

Seems like every Dx9 tutorial out there deal exclusively in 3d ... except for the occasional thing about textured quads ...

Is there like, a magical super place somewhere on the intarweb with 2d game programming resources? ... I'm trying to hack together a shmup ...

Sure use DX if you want your code to be totally unportable.

SDL is where it's at; you can tell it which graphics libraries to use without making any change to your program code. Hence it's possible to tell SDL to use aalib instead of opengl and have Unreal Tournament running in a console. Which is pretty funny.