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  1. Space Cadet Frame Rate Cap: Lessons from the Windows NT Port

    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...
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  2. Space Cadet Pinball: The Busy-Loop Timing Lesson in Windows NT

    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...
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  3. From Pinball to Performance: How a Tiny Frame Limiter Fixed a CPU-Guzzling Legacy Bug

    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...
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  4. The Decline of Preinstalled Windows Games: Nostalgia and Loss in Modern PCs

    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...
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  5. Bring Back 3D Pinball Space Cadet on Modern Windows: Easy Methods

    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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  6. VIDEO Pinball Wizard - The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - BBC Proms

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  7. VIDEO Panetta: Giuliani like 'a human pinball machine'

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  8. This Week on Windows: Forza Motorsport 7, Windows Mixed Reality headsets and more

    We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of This Week on Windows! In case you missed it, learn how to pre-order your Windows Mixed Reality headset or how you can export your Minecraft creations to Remix3D.com. In case you missed it: Link Removed Link Removed This week, Dell announced the...
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  9. Celebrate Star Wars Day today with deals in the Windows Store

    Link Removed MOVIES* Are the original Star Wars films already in your collection? If not, get the Link Removed, on sale now for $74.99 (that’s 17% off), and go from the beginning to the end as many times as you want. Or build your collection film by film, with first 6 films on sale for $13.99...
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  10. Windows 8 What's your favourite Store app

    Now Windows 8 has been released fully into the wild the number of apps to be found in the store has risen considerably. There are now literally thousands to choose from with some being better than others. If you have a favourite or know of a particularly useful app, which is free, please post...
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  11. Windows 7 Hot Apps: Super Monkey Ball, You Got Served, Pinball League, Fantasia Painter, Soothr

    Each week, Hot Apps will feature five of the hottest Windows Phone 7 apps. In this episode, Laura takes a look at: Super Monkey Ball on Xbox LIVE You Got Served Jokes Pinball League: The Juggler Fantasia Painter Soothr Please leave suggestions for hot apps that should be featured in the...
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  12. Windows 7 Windows 7 upgrade-games

    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...