1.2M views · Sep 3, 2021 · 29:06 · 4 HN recommenders · 4 mentions · discussed 2021–2024
NCommander investigates why Space Cadet Pinball disappeared from Windows Vista, building on Raymond Chen's explanation about 64-bit incompatibility. He tests it on 64-bit Windows including Itanium and walks through the debugging.
Why Hacker News points people here: Recommended as the detailed, entertaining history of why 3D Pinball vanished from Windows.
“If you have the time, I highly recommend checking out the NCommander's video talking about Space Cadet Pinball.”HN comment, 2022
“If you have the time, I highly recommend checking out the NCommander's video talking about Space Cadet Pinball.”
Detailed history of why Space Cadet Pinball left Windows.
If you have the time, I highly recommend checking out the NCommander's video talking about Space Cadet Pinball. this video He references the same blog, and goes into some pretty incredible detail about the history of what happened to pinball coming pre-installed on Windows.
“I learned a lot about 3D Pinball recently on this video [0].”
Explains why 3D Pinball lacked 64-bit versions, including debugging story.
I learned a lot about 3D Pinball recently on this video [0]. It's specifically about the 64bit versions of 3D Pinball (or the lack thereof) and the reasons why. Part of that is debugging which relates to this. [0] this video
“Warning contains a youtuber bashing their head firmly against the pain of Itanium to test this.”
YouTuber suffers through Itanium to test 64-bit pinball.
Yes... this video Warning contains a youtuber bashing their head firmly against the pain of Itanium to test this.
“A great video explaining this is”
Explains Pinball issues on 64-bit Windows XP Itanium edition.
There were issues with Pinball on "Windows XP 64-bit Edition", or the Itanium version. A great video explaining this is this video
