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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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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Telltale Games has established itself as the master of the episodic adventure game with hits like The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones, Tales from the Borderlands and, most recently, Link Removed. These storytelling-centered games, in which player choices have...
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This live video shows me porting an 8.1 universal app to Win10.
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I've been interviewing devs taking apart Microsoft Windows 8 Milestone 3 (M3) internal builds in the hopes of piecing what developers should expect when porting and writing apps for Windows 8....
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HP plans on porting its webOS onto other manufacturer's devices, setting the stage for a 2012 conflict between it and Microsoft's Windows 8.
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Instead of trying to port Windows 8 on to the ARM chip, Microsoft should try doing something other than Windows and stop playing games.
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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...
Just as it was the case with its predecessors, select editions of Windows 7 include by default a multi-user UNIX environment, designed to offer functionality specific to the open source
, on top of the Windows platform.
In addition to the Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA),
is...
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.
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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...
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