Tutorials:
directdraw
tile based games
(really nice article; a must read!)
clipping
directdraw7
(displaying bitmaps and such)
smoothscrolling tiles
smoothscrolling tiles
(easier to understand)
animation.zip
(download it, unzip it, and check it out!)
colorkeys
Alpha Blending with vbDABL
Loading and Displaying a Bitmap
directsound
directsound
playing midi files
looping playback