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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.
I’m 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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