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

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

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4 HN users recommended this documentary in 3 different months between 2021 and 2024.

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1 strong recommendation 3 recommendations HackerTube score 3.5

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

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.

Pull quote: “If you have the time, I highly recommend checking out the NCommander's video talking about Space Cadet Pinball.” (HN, 2022)

Also tagged: windows software history, space cadet pinball, itanium, 64-bit windows, raymond chen, retrocomputing

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4 labeled comments from the HN archive; up to 20 are kept per video, favoring different commenters. Each one links back to the original thread.

Strongly recommends registeredcorn February 2022 under The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8

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.

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Recommends nazgulsenpai October 2021 under SpaceCadetPinball – Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows

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]

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Recommends leeter October 2021 under SpaceCadetPinball – Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows

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.

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Recommends Kwpolska March 2024 under The Format Dialog in Windows NT

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]

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