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 ...

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And you call that simple. Why do I have to have my stuff spread over two dozen directories...

My preferred model is: you copy the software to a directory, it stays there, doens't put crap anywhere else, nor uses any registry - just a INI file where the EXE file is (libraries and resources where the EXE file is too, or subdirectories). In fact it doesn't need to be "installed"; it's relocatable, even across different computers, and doesn't mess with anything. Think eMule or Media Player Classic, for example.