The REAL Story On Why Space Cadet Pinball Was Removed (ft. Windows on Itanium)

NCommander · 1.2M views · 2021-09-03 · 29:06

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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.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2021–2024

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History of computing Demoscene & retrocomputing Operating systems & kernels

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registeredcorn · 2022-02 · Strong recommendation
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.
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Kwpolska · 2024-03 · Recommendation
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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nazgulsenpai · 2021-10 · Recommendation
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]
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