DirectX:DirectDraw
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DirectDraw is a 2D API, much like SDL. It never made it past version 7 of the DirectX interfaces, but it runs on all versions of Windows. You can define the current DirectX version to be 7 to compile DirectDraw programs using a later Windows SDK (such as the one included with Visual Studio .NET).

