![]() ![]() If you are running 64-bit of Windows and like to play Pinball game, you may have to look at other alternatives. If you had Windows 95 with the Plus Pack (or XP) back in the day you had a free game that is no longer available Pinball It stopped showing up after Windows. While it’s possible adding Pinball to Windows Vista or Windows 7, it may only work in a 32-bit of Windows. Since there are millions of lines codes waiting to be ported over, the team just made the executive decision to drop Pinball from the product. Heck, we couldn’t even find the collision detector! Given that this was code written several years earlier by an outside company, and that nobody at Microsoft ever understood how the code worked (much less still understood it), and that most of the code was completely uncommented, we simply couldn’t figure out why the collision detector was not working. Raymond’s team has tried to figure out what went wrong but unfortunately they had little time figuring out the original code developed by an outside company. In particular, when you started the game, the ball would be delivered to the launcher, and then it would slowly fall towards the bottom of the screen, through the plunger, and out the bottom of the table. The 64-bit version of Pinball had a pretty nasty bug where the ball would simply pass through other objects like a ghost. And a nasty bug in the 64-bit version of Pinball kept them from running properly in a 64-bit environment. It’s all started when porting codes from 32-bit to 64-bit version of Windows. And it’s nothing to do with the legal reasons. Raymond Chen, a long time senior Microsoft Windows Developer, revealed the reason behind the decision why Pinball was dropped on his The Old New Thing blog. It’s been removed since Vista without much reason explaining why, well until now. But unfortunately, XP was the last Windows system that natively comes with it. If its coming down that ramp theres a roughly 7/10 chance that itll. It included an AVI introduction video clip and a few WAV files for special added sound affects, such as Human talking voice and a Moose call. It was released on Decemfor Microsoft Windows and in 2001 for the Game Boy Color. It could end so quick that I don’t have to waste a lot of my time on games. Pinball Arcade is the most realistic and comprehensive pinball simulation ever created Play digital versions of over 35 real pinball tables including Mary. This game was designed for Windows 9x and Windows NT 4.0 but it can also natively run on Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 10 without the need to apply compatibility mode. It’s a short quick but very fun game to be part of it. Why didnt Windows Vista and later version of Windows come with Pinball Because Microsoft engineers couldnt port the game to the 64-bit architecture without. No kidding, Pinball was one of the games I really enjoyed playing back in XP era almost a decade ago.
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