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The REAL Story On Why Space Cadet Pinball Was Removed (ft. Windows on Itanium)
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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.
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Recommended as the detailed, entertaining history of why 3D Pinball vanished from Windows.
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From the Hacker News discussion
If you have the time, I highly recommend checking out the NCommander's video talking about Space Cadet Pinball. [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.
Read original comment ↗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] [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Yes... [VIDEO] Warning contains a youtuber bashing their head firmly against the pain of Itanium to test this.
Read original comment ↗There were issues with Pinball on "Windows XP 64-bit Edition", or the Itanium version. A great video explaining this is [VIDEO]
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