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  • Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pinball on 64-bit Windows - The Old New Thing

    From Mr. Chang Man-wai@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32,comp.lang.c,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.os.windows-11 on Sun Aug 23 21:38:18 2026
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    Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista? - The Old New Thing <https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=5803>

    One of the things I did in Windows XP was port several millions of lines
    of code from 32-bit to 64-bit Windows so that we could ship Windows XP
    64-bit Edition. But one of the programs that ran into trouble was
    Pinball. The 64-bit version of Pinball had a pretty nasty bug where the
    ball would simply pass through other objects like a ghost. In
    particular, when you started the game, the ball would be delivered to
    the launcher, and then it would slowly fall towards the bottom of the
    screen, through the plunger, and out the bottom of the table.

    Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pinball on 64-bit
    Windows - The Old New Thing <https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220106-00/?p=106122>

    My theory as to what happened is that some time after I removed Pinball
    from the product, the C runtime team realized that they had a
    compatibility bug in the way they set the default rounding mode, and
    they fixed it. Or maybe there was a compiler bug, and the compiler team
    fixed that. Whatever the problem was, somebody fixed it, and then they
    went back and re-tested Pinball with this fix, and everything worked
    great, so they put Pinball back.

    IrCOm just guessing about what happened afterward because nobody informed
    me that they had gotten Pinball working and added it back. I just
    assumed that it was gone forever.

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  • From ....winston@winstonmvp@gmail.com to comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32,comp.lang.c,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.os.windows-11 on Sun Aug 23 10:39:29 2026
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    https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetpinball


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  • From john@john@jeason.cix.co.uk (John K.Eason) to alt.windows7.general on Sun Aug 23 21:14:40 2026
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    In article <116f0n1$200h1$1@dont-email.me>, winstonmvp@gmail.com (....winston) wrote:

    *From:* "....winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com>
    *Date:* Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:39:29 -0400

    https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetpinball

    AAMOI I've been running a 32-bit W95 version of pinball under Win 10 for years now.
    I simply copied the complete Pinball folder from my W95 machine into the W10 \Program Files (x86) folder and ran pinball.exe from it. - Works flawlessly! :^)
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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@admin@127.0.0.1 to alt.windows7.general on Mon Aug 24 17:44:05 2026
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    On Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:13 +0100 (BST)
    john@jeason.cix.co.uk (John K.Eason) wrote:

    In article <116f0n1$200h1$1@dont-email.me>, winstonmvp@gmail.com (....winston)
    wrote:

    *From:* "....winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com>
    *Date:* Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:39:29 -0400

    https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetpinball

    AAMOI I've been running a 32-bit W95 version of pinball under Win 10 for years now.
    I simply copied the complete Pinball folder from my W95 machine into the W10 \Program Files (x86) folder and ran pinball.exe from it. - Works flawlessly! :^)

    My copy of "pinball" still works in native XP, so there!
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