4 HN users recommended this documentary3 months2021–2024score 3.5
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Recommended as the detailed, entertaining history of why 3D Pinball vanished from Windows.
NCommander investigates why Space Cadet Pinball disappeared from Windows Vista, building on Raymond Chen's explanation about 64-bit incompatibility. He tests it on 64-bit Windows including Itanium and walks through the debugging.
“If you have the time, I highly recommend checking out the NCommander's video talking about Space Cadet Pinball.” (HN, 2022)
If you have the time, I highly recommend checking out the NCommander's video talking about Space Cadet Pinball. [this video] He references the same blog, and goes into some pretty incredible detail about the history of what happened to pinball coming pre-installed on Windows.
Detailed history of why Space Cadet Pinball left Windows.
I learned a lot about 3D Pinball recently on this video [0]. It's specifically about the 64bit versions of 3D Pinball (or the lack thereof) and the reasons why. Part of that is debugging which relates to this. [0] [this video]
Explains why 3D Pinball lacked 64-bit versions, including debugging story.
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