Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
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Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
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Re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
#2Heh, 's nice to read about that and as a pinball-enthusiast i'm a bit saddened for it to be gone, even if it is more for retro-reasons as opposed to it being special in some way...
Maybe MS should team up with someone who understands making (digital) pinballs, like the guys that created Zen Pinball?
Re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
#3Too bad it wasn't open source, then someone would have fixed it for free.
Re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
#4This is an excellent example of why comments in code are so very useful, helpful and in my opinion, necessary.
... 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. Heck, we couldn't even find the collision detector!
To all those folks out there who keep finding reasons to try and be clever with their language, or omit comments from their code: now you can remember Pinball. It's very possible that with some minimal commenting about what functions did, or what the intentions of block of codes were, Pinball could have lived on. Heck, we could have even seen a Modern UI version of Pinball.
Re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
#5Too bad it wasn't open source, then someone would have fixed it for free.
Someone asked that in the comments, and he responded that it was licensed from a 3rd party company.
Re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
#6Too bad it wasn't open source, then someone would have fixed it for free.
Assuming you are not just trolling, please elaborate.
Re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
#7Too bad it wasn't open source, then someone would have fixed it for free.
Not Microsoft's jurisdiction, unfortunately. They license those games from dev shops.
I am surprised, however, that it hasn't been cloned yet.
Re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
#8This is an excellent example of why comments in code are so very useful, helpful and in my opinion, necessary. ... 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. Heck, we couldn't even find the collision detector! To all those folks out there who kee…
It's an argument for clear code that's readily understandable by other people. It's not an argument for any particular technique for achieving that goal. I've never seen any programmer seriously suggest that code should be deliberately made difficult to understand.
Re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
#9Wait, can't 64-bit windows run 32-bit programs?
Re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
#10Too bad it wasn't open source, then someone would have fixed it for free.
Assuming you are not just trolling, please elaborate.
Elaborate on what? It seems rather obvious that a popular game with a minor bug rendering it unplayable would have that bug fixed by someone for free if it was open source.
Or do you want me to elaborate on why it's too bad? Well, pinball is the best game that was ever included with Windows, so it's unfortunate that it's not still there.