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Dave Plummer’s off‑hand confession that his Windows NT port of the beloved 3D Pinball: Space Cadet rendered “as fast as it could” and eventually spiked into the thousands of frames per second is a compact engineering parable: a tiny timing assumption left unchecked, harmless on 1990s hardware...

Dave Plummer’s confession — that his Windows NT port of the beloved Space Cadet pinball ran “as fast as it could,” eventually spiking to “like, 5,000 frames per second” on modern hardware — is as entertaining as it is instructive, and it revisits a compact engineering lesson about timing...

Dave Plummer’s confession that the worst bug he ever shipped was tied to the beloved Windows pack‑in game Pinball is more than a nostalgic anecdote — it’s a compact lesson in resource management, legacy code risk, and the kind of tiny design decisions that can balloon into systemic problems as...

With Windows 10’s end of life rapidly approaching and Microsoft’s relentless push toward Windows 11, many users find themselves experiencing not only technical indecision but also a powerful nostalgia. As Microsoft sunsets an operating system that many have grown comfortable with, there’s an air...

This classic game holds a special place in many Windows users’ hearts—an echo of simpler times when Windows XP reigned supreme. While the beloved 3D Pinball Space Cadet was once a staple of older operating systems, modern iterations like Windows 7, Windows 10, and Windows 11 have bid it a...

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I`m currently operating Windows XP Home Edition version 2002. This week i`m buying a new computer which will have Windows 7 on it. In my current XP are the games i.e. Start>all programs>games>listed games. In the new Windows 7 will the same games be on there particularly the 3D Pinball and if...