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The REAL Story On Why Space Cadet Pinball Was Removed (ft. Windows on Itanium)

NCommander · documentary · Watch on YouTube

History of computingDemoscene & retrocomputingOperating systems & kernels

What it is

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 recommends it

Recommended as the detailed, entertaining history of why 3D Pinball vanished from Windows.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “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.

    registeredcorn, 2022-02 · Strong recommendation · in “The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8”

  2. “I learned a lot about 3D Pinball recently on this video [0].”

    Explains why 3D Pinball lacked 64-bit versions, including debugging story.

    nazgulsenpai, 2021-10 · Recommendation · in “SpaceCadetPinball – Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows”

  3. “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.

    leeter, 2021-10 · Recommendation · in “SpaceCadetPinball – Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows”

  4. “A great video explaining this is”

    Explains Pinball issues on 64-bit Windows XP Itanium edition.

    Kwpolska, 2024-03 · Recommendation · in “The Format Dialog in Windows NT”

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Topics: space cadet pinball, itanium, 64-bit windows, raymond chen, retrocomputing

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