What is the unknown reason why the game 'Pinball' that was up to XP disappeared from Windows Vista?
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Windows 95, which has become one of the driving forces behind the explosive spread of PCs, comes pre-installed with several games, and many people should be crazy about ' Hover! ', ' Solitaire ', and ' Minesweeper '. .. One of the things included in such a game was ' pinball ,' but in fact Windows XP disappeared at the end. Raymond Chen , who has been involved in the process, blogs about why pinball has been removed since Windows Vista.
Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista? --The Old New Thing --Site Home --MSDM Blogs
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/12/18/10378851.aspx
Mr. Chen has been involved in software development at Microsoft for over 20 years. For some reason , he is sometimes described as Microsoft's Chuck Norris , but he says he is a little dissatisfied.
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In developing Windows XP, the work was done to port the millions of lines of source code that had been used up to that point from the 32-bit version to the 64-bit version. It was work to release the 64-bit version of Windows XP, but the problem was discovered here in the game 'Pinball', and there is a bug in the pinball ported to the 64-bit version. It turned out. The content of the bug is fatal that the ball passes through objects such as walls, and even if the game starts and the ball is set on the launch pad, it disappears to the edge of the screen as it is and the game ends in an instant It seems that it has become something that does not form a body as a game.
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Two people on Chen's team have dealt with this issue, but the source code for the game was written by an outside supplier many years ago, and people inside Microsoft know the details. It was extremely difficult to investigate the cause because there was no comment describing the contents of the program in the source, and it was written about collision detection , which is one of the most basic processes in making a game. He said he couldn't even find the place where he was.
It was a matter that needed to be investigated and dealt with, but for Mr. Chen's team, who had to port millions of lines of code, in order to solve the bug caused by the attached game. He said he couldn't afford to find a floating point error over a few days. Eventually, it was decided by the executive class, and as a result, pinball was removed from Windows Vista.
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It's presumed that it was painful for Pinball, the most orthodox game, and even more popular in the United States, to disappear. However, after that, the free pinball game ' Pinball FX2 ' for Windows 8.1 was released by Microsoft in the Windows Store, and it is revived as a new pinball.
Pinball FX2 app for Windows in the Windows Store
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