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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
"In other words, there was a lump of code that shipped for give-or-take a decade that NOBODY UNDERSTOOD. Yeah, *that* sounds like a good idea..."What's the big deal? The software works, it's been...
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
Let go of the past. Windows 8 has a wicked pinball game available from the app store, with one free table. Extra tables are $3.
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
@Danny Thorpe: Interesting. I'll admit that I'm completely spoiled by modern machines and can't easily imagine needing to reduce the ball's radius to 0 for performance reasons. I once wrote a floating...
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
...didn't hate open source.It would have been saved almost instantly had it been released as a Free software project instead of binned.
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
Why bother with that old flat pinball when this is available:http://www.futurepinball.com/
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
Please don't open source that, we really don't want to pollute the open source world with that kind of stuff.
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
@Brian_EE: When I switched to Vista, I first copied the Hyperterminal from WinXP and continue using it. (It's simple)And a few months later, I switched to use PuTTY and found it to be even easier. I...
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
[Running on a computer not licensed to run the matching version of Windows is prohibited by the licensing agreement. -Raymond]I think when following the upgrade path, this licensing limitation does not...
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
This reminds me of... Rodents Revenge and Jazz Ball. Good old simple times :-(
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
Here you go: mspinball.weebly.com/index.html
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
The guys at Microsoft couldn't figure out the source code, but some guys are clamoring for it... Well if you can deal with such a mess of code, then you could also be able to make an open source clone....
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
@Anderson, remember Pipe Dream, Tic Tap Drop, Stones, Maxwell's Maniac, Life Genesis, Go Figure, Dr. Blackjack and many more? I want their 32-bit versions!
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
Forget pinball. 64 bit QBasic please: I need to experience Nibbles et al the way their authors meant them to be.
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
64-bit QBasic would pretty much require a rewrite, given it was written in x86 asm.
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re: Why doesn't SHGetKnownFolderPath return the customized path?
"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?"
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re: Why doesn't SHGetKnownFolderPath return the customized path?
@BC_Programming: I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.Isn't it nice that 150 years later we still have the same problem?
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re: Why doesn't SHGetKnownFolderPath return the customized path?
I actually feel sorry for this customer. MS support cases are too valuable commodity to waste just because no one can be bothered to read MSDN.
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re: Why doesn't SHGetKnownFolderPath return the customized path?
@Peter - And Stack Overflow is going the same way.
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
Raymond, you're awesome. Thanks for doing what you do. :-)
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
Can you inform us of the company's name? I'd like to ring them up for the source code.[You must be new here (and don't read earlier comments). -Raymond]
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