Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?

superballs

superballs

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I read that and then another one about how proud the guy was capping pinball at 120fps so that it didn't gobble up 100% CPU time.

This comment made me laugh pretty hard:

EDIT ok it didn't go down to the comment but it said this:

Maybe you can fix that one too:

- You hold up a flipper to stop the ball
- when the ball is in flipper-range you decide not to stop it
- let go and immediately flip again
--> ball goes right through the flipper.

This bug has been annoying me for years (was already there in Win95).
Otherwise I really like pinball, it almost acts like the real thing.
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Worf

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What, Farsight wrote Space Cadet?

Perhaps now that they fixed the flipper issue, they could port it back :D
 
Jeff Strong

Jeff Strong

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Yeah, it was Maxis. They made the Full Tilt pinball games as well, which were equally as mediocre, but I did enjoy the sound effects.
 
skykid3k

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I can't tell you how many days I wasted in Junior High and High School playing Space Cadet on Windows computers.
 
DJ Clae

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Could we possibly just copy the exe file from an old install of Windows and run it in Vista/7/8?
 
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Worf

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Should work - I believe it's a 32 bit executable so it'll work.

16 bit executables don't work on 64-bit. They may run in XP mode though.
 

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