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maybe someone will finally port Pinball to X64, given MS didn't seem capable (at least in the time allotted)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=58...

It's not true, though, a 64-bit pinball binary is included on the Windows XP 64-bit media.

I had posted this on the Old New Thing comments at the time, but comments on all old posts were lost in the blog transition.

Here is the original post with comments:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190108095105/https://blogs.msd...

"Bring out your XP CD, copy PINBALL.* from it, and EXPAND the files (yes, you will have to either guess the correct extensions or hunt through installation files, but it's not rocket science)."

Which XP 64-bit release? (IA-64, x86-64, both?)

I know x64 had it.

3D Pinball can at least run on modern windows, literally just copy-paste from Windows XP and it will run.

They don't make software like they used to! /s

The glquake binary from id runs on 64 bit Windows 10. Microsoft has done a admirable job of maintaining compatibility.

I think the Pinball source code was not included in the leaks, possibly because it was developed by an external company.

It was developed by Maxis I believe.

It was developed by Cinematronics. These guys then had a deal with Microsoft to include Pinball (it was called as 'Space Cadet') for exposure. Later Cinematronics acquired by Maxis.

From https://web.archive.org/web/20190108095105/https://blogs.msd...

> Cinematronics was founded by David Stafford, Mike Sandige and I in 1994, and Space Cadet was our first published game

> The deal David did with Microsoft was non-exclusive. As Danny noted, we were more interested in the exposure and didn't see much revenue from it. However, it did lead to our relationship and eventual acquisition by Maxis.

Correct. It was a single table, or at least a version of it, from a Maxis pinball game called Full Tilt! Pinball.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Tilt!_Pinball

It's included in the the NT 3.5 leak.

It's not, unless you're confusing the Pinball game with the driver called Pinball.

Hm, I thought I seen it but perhaps that really was just the driver. damn

Are you talking about "3D Pinball"? Looking around it seems to be available for later versions of Windows (but I didn't look into the details of whether it's a port or something else).

what about MS Paint? There is a bug in there were you can draw with the background DVD video. Would love to have that bug/feature.

Isn't that just one particular color close to black serving as mask for the dvd renderer overlay?

Not really specific to Paint, but every program that happens to display the overlay colour will experience the same effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_overlay

There are huge changes to numeric code needed as some floating point calculations were borderline working.

Surely it can be run in compatibility mode on modern Windows?

I keep thinking about this.

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