Pinball 3D foi um dos jogos mais populares em qualquer Windows XP máquina. Já se perguntou por que a Microsoft decidiu abandoná-lo nas versões subsequentes do Windows? A maioria especula que o motivo foi legal, mas não foi esse o caso.
Ao portar vários milhões de linhas de código do Windows de 32 bits para o Windows de 64 bits, um programa que encontrou problemas foi o Pinball.
The 64-bit version of Pinball had a pretty nasty bug where the ball would simply pass through other objects like a ghost. In particular, when you started the game, the ball would be delivered to the launcher, and then it would slowly fall towards the bottom of the screen, through the plunger, and out the bottom of the table. Games tended to be really short. Two of us tried to debug the program to figure out what was going on, but given that this was code written several years earlier by an outside company, and that 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! We had several million lines of code still to port, so we couldn’t afford to spend days studying the code trying to figure out what obscure floating point rounding error was causing collision detection to fail. We just made the executive decision right there to drop Pinball from the product, says a blog post on MSDN.
Embora sempre seja possível adicionar Pinball a versões subsequentes do Windows, isso não é recomendado.
Os usuários do Windows 8 agora podem conferir o jogo Pinball FX2 e nos informar como você o compara com o jogo Pinball original. Existem outros aplicativos de jogos de Pinball para o Windows 10 disponíveis também.
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