ok feldon30 - now I understand the thing about Microsoft.
I hope they don't do that again!
Thanks for the words Jim. here a short list of erics' work I founf on IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0199926/
Now I even don't waste my time (or should I) asking about that xbox project, that Jim wasn't allowed to make a few years ago.
After XNA is (nearly) free of charge - a port from dx8 to xbox360 would be simple, wouldn't it?