And remember that to download a Platform SDK from Microsoft there are different ways to download it. (not so with Direct X SDK's). If you have a slow connection like me, it will take longer, but you can download it in 25mB chunks or so of about 16 different downloads or 18 whatever it is. Otherwise, there is the ISO type download so you can put it to a CD or DVD, or the main download which is one chunk of about something like 500mB file. These files are huge, but the 448mB Direct X SDK can only be downloaded all at once. Since my internet connection can only be on for 4 hours at a time, although I can hook up right away again - it is the Service of the Internet Provider, and if I could stay online for like 18 hours then I could download that stuff in one chunk but again it would take 18 hours total time about or more or less. If I change Internet Service Provider that would not cut me off after 4 hours, then I would not have that problem, that probably many other people do not have, but still the files are huge and it takes a long time without having a fast Internet connection speed.
That's life and that is Microsoft's SDK's from Microsoft.
However, I think I will change Internet Service Provider so I can download some stuff for a day about then it will be done, until I get a faster Internet speed connection maybe someday.
Download the correct download files for the way you want to download from Microsoft for any Platform SDK but again, you need the correct version of the Platform SDK on which this game was built with. Not something else, because all versions either add something or delete something and change something because Microsoft keeps changing things especially Visual Studio. NET programs -- like the 2002 version, the 2003 versions - needed for this game, the 2005 version, and the soon 2008 version. Express versions can be downloaded but again, they have changed those versions and for this game they will not work, unless you have a Make file that was earlier in this thread to tell the program which compiler to use and how the Make file tells the version of the program how to compile the file in the first place. Fun?
Well, that is programming and according to Microsoft.
And, well, it is their program unfortunately and they keep changing it.
Security no doubt being one of the reasons because of people on the Internet or should I say -- hackers, viruses, and other malicious software floating around this WWW.