Dunno if everyone has seen this, but there is a fairly new 990 web page
up by David PItts, who has written a simulator and cross-development
tools for Linux and Windows.
It might be interesting to take something like this, or M.E.S.S. or one
of the other simulators, and reimplement the DX10 4A dev tools. Maybe
somebody might even still have them around somewhere. Hmmm.
http://www.cozx.com/~dpitts/ti990.html
later,
jbdigriz