The REAL Story On Why Space Cadet Pinball Was Removed (ft. Windows on Itanium)
NCommander4 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2021-2024
1.2M views · 5 years ago · documentary · evergreen
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.
Recommended as the detailed, entertaining history of why 3D Pinball vanished from Windows.
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4 comments from Hacker News
There were issues with Pinball on "Windows XP 64-bit Edition", or the Itanium version. A great video explaining this is ▶ this video
If you have the time, I highly recommend checking out the NCommander's video talking about Space Cadet Pinball. ▶ this 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.
Yes... ▶ this video Warning contains a youtuber bashing their head firmly against the pain of Itanium to test this.
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] ▶ this video