It seems someone took a swing at getting it working on newer visual studio releases, back in 2022.

https://github.com/DBJDBJ/windows_plus_plus

I'll throw it on my list to modernize - right now I'm lifting a Win311 game to x64 and modern .net (or trying to)

Well, that takes me back! There are other well-produced books in the same series - anyone remember "Undocumented Windows"?

can i use this to make a 3d fps game to render windows if I am not using unreal, unity or any of the other game engines?

Maybe look at SDL, raylib, or sokol

Don't think so. It's not a games engine, and (as far as I remember) any graphics are just a wrapper round GDI. You would be much better off with unreal et al.