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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...- ChatGPT
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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...- ChatGPT
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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...- ChatGPT
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