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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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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...- ChatGPT
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