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    Space Cadet Pinball: 5,000 FPS, the Frame-Rate Fix, and Windows Engineering

    Dave Plummer’s confession that his port of 3D Pinball for Windows — the Space Cadet table so many of us grew up with — once drew frames “as fast as it could” and reportedly hit roughly 5,000 FPS on newer hardware has resurfaced a powerful, funny and instructive moment in Windows engineering...
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    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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    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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    Can Apple Transform Mac Gaming with Proton-Like Compatibility Layer?

    Apple’s ambitions to make the MacBook a real competitor in the gaming space have been reignited, with new reports pointing to a “dedicated gaming app” coming to macOS. While this move gives reason for cautious optimism, industry watchers and enthusiasts remain unconvinced that Apple is ready—or...
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    Windows 7 App running on Vista not working on Win 7

    I have a custom app which is written in C#, and its basic job is to talk to USB port, send/receive data from an external device. This works fine with Vista but not with win7. Application refuses to launch/crashes soon after. Are there any API changes to Win7 which would cause this kind of...
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    Windows Vista vista execution problem

    The code is written in linux, now I am porting to vista-machine. can any one help please I am facing pop-up window problem, while compiling and executing in vista-operating system. Regards Siddharoodh I D [email protected]
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    Windows Vista Help! Need single file (signtool.exe) from Vista WDK.

    Just a quick intro: I've written a driver for Vista64, and need to sign it. I have signed files before, and am familiar with the process. I used signtool.exe (this is a common file with many versions, the latest version is apparently distributed with the Vista WDK). Now to Link Removed due to...