space cadet pinball

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...

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...

Linux gaming has come a long way from being viewed as a mere hobby for tinkerers. Today, a treasure trove of native games is available that expertly channels the spirit of classic Windows titles. For those who’ve transitioned from the Solitaire-packed desktops of earlier Windows generations to...