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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I'm an IT professional (SERIOUSLY, nevermind I post here), and I know how to do all that, but I don't want to waste my time recompiling every PoS I want to install on my system, and my boss doesn't like my time spent on this crap either. I'm hired to program the intarweb (actually, a portal), not to check I have all libraries, recompile software, and fix ugly fonts.