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On “Why Space Cadet pinball was removed”
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Windows 11 Pinball: by the original Microsoft programmer of the XP Game port
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Dave Plummer explains the history of Space Cadet Pinball and why it was ultimately removed from 64-bit Windows.
Pinball in Windows 11? Find out from Dave Plummer, the "fun uncle" who brought pinball to the masses by programming the game port for Windows XP, discusses some of the history pinbll and test drives it on Windows 11 to see if it still works! The actual Microsoft programmer explains why Pinball did not ship on 64-bit, dispelling the various conspiracy videos currently floating around. The following website has a VERY complete list of cheat codes and debug codes that were left in. Most of these should still work, though I can't vouch for all of them! ign.com/wikis/pc-cheats/Space_Cadet_Pinball_Cheats Here's a link to a site that hosts the pinball file. I have no affiliation with the site and can't speak to the safety of the binary, as it was never signed by Microsoft. Works in a VM though! techspot.com/downloads/5697-microsoft-pinball-for-windows.ht…Why it's here
4 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as the definitive explanation from the original porter on why Space Cadet Pinball was removed from Windows.
u/wslagoonin r/programming • Recommends
On “Why Space Cadet pinball was removed”
There's also some interesting details in Dave's video about it: link to this video
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On “Why Space Cadet pinball was removed”
Dave's Garage (Dave worked at Microsoft) did a video about this the other week. He's the one who did the port and went over why it was removed.
link to this video
u/onety-two-12in r/programming • Recommends
On “Why Space Cadet pinball was removed”
Dave's Garage already covered this over a week ago - link to this video
He worked at Microsoft and said it was mainly due to the move to 64-bit, where the original game was doing 32-bit voodoo that wouldn't work by simply changing all pointers to 64-bit.