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christopherius@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That was my favorite Windows game that came with the OS. I wonder why they removed it? Is it because they wanted to sell it as Full Tilt?

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  • beforan@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was fundamentally broken in 64-bit Windows for a long time due to a practically unfindable bug, so they just removed it.

    I think it’s been fixed or recreated now though?

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    • WaterWaiver@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There is an open source port that works natively on Windows, Linux and other platforms. I played it quite a bit :)

      Interesting note in the project readme:

      On 64-bit bug that killed the game

      I did not find it, decompiled game worked in x64 mode on the first try.
      It was either lost in decompilation or introduced in x64 port/not present in x86 build.
      Based on public description of the bug (no ball collision), I guess that the bug was in TEdgeManager::TestGridBox

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    • FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      OK, I wasn’t clear on that. So, Full Tilt! was available before the pinball game was included with Windows. How much work would it have taken Microsoft to adapt their pinball game to 64 bit machines? I mean, come on, what kind of excuse is that? They updated Solitaire and added word games. Silly Microsoft.

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