Spaceship Demo - 3D Accerlation for 2D Graphics

I'm currently tinkering around with the idea of making a massively multiplayer space warfare/trading game. In the past, I've used sprites and DirectDraw to do all my 2D game projects, but DirectDraw is being phased out and was rather inconvienent (if you wanted a rotating sprite, you'd have to get lots of pictures of the same object and flip them). What a pain. Recently I've started messing around with OpenGL (IMHO a much nicer API than DirectX) and I wrote this demo to explore the orthographic projection, which can be used to do 2D graphics at 3D speed (ironically, this is often much faster). Not that all the game objects have to be 2D, as the big rotating planet in the background demonstrates. For more code visit my site at http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/coding