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↑ Windows 11 Pinball by the original Windows XP programmer - Dave's Garage.

Mike Sandige, Ex-Cinematronics Developer Speaker's Blog)ĭanny Thrope, Ex-Cinematronics Contractor via Raymond Chen's Blog

↑ 3D Pinball Space Cadet Glitch! (Glitchipedia).↑ 3D Pinball for Windows Easter Eggs (The Easter Egg Archive).↑ 2.0 2.1 Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista? (The Old New Thing, Raymond Chen's Blog, Microsoft)ĭanny Thorpe, Ex-Cinematronics Contractor via Raymond Chen's Blog.↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Media & Packaging Scans (BetaArchive).The game, in both its x86 and 圆4 forms does remain playable on later versions of Windows when the files are carried over (albeit with some minor graphical issues), which is also present on the final development build bundling it, build 5048. It is possible that Raymond Chen's article was referring to Itanium-related porting issues and confused it with Windows Vista-related development, though.

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Microsoft claimed it did not include the program in Windows Vista due to them being unable to successfully create a 64-bit version (reasons cited including Microsoft developers having trouble with rounding floating point integers that were used in the collision detection engine during development with the original version of the game as well as problems with floating point math and the collision detection, ), however these problems appear to mostly pertain to the original release of Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for Itanium processors, as a native 64-bit version of Pinball for both Itanium and 圆4 systems was shipped with both Version 2003 of the 64-Bit Edition and Windows XP Professional 圆4 Edition, respectively. It was implied that Microsoft managed to create native ports of 3D Pinball for Windows on other platforms (DEC Alpha, ARC MIPS, PReP PowerPC), that they successfully ported it to a cross-compilable language such as C, which was finally confirmed by retired Windows NT developer Dave Plummer in August 2021, the programmer who built such cross-platform builds.

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The Full Tilt! version has a 3D render of a space scene, while Microsoft's has a 'cartoon' of a 'Space Cadet' (possibly in reference to 'Duck Dodgers', a Looney Tunes short about Daffy Duck and Porky Pig as astronauts, with Porky as the 'Cadet').įull Tilt! Pinball was originally written in 'significant amounts of x86 assembly language'.

The 'counter' graphics between the two versions are slightly different.

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The Windows XP version (and final update to the Microsoft version of the table), sports a new icon to keep up with the Luna theme.

Maxis/Cinematronics acknowledges this as a selling point for the software, on the jewel case artwork. Microsoft's single table only renders the table (not even renders, for both versions of the software, it is pre-rendered) at 640×480.

The Maxis version's tables can be rendered up to 1024×768 resolution.

PINBALL2.MID is included with every copy, but is a data file. In Microsoft's version, there is only a single file ( PINBALL.MID) that is the standard theme looped over 8 minutes. There is a 'Standard' soundtrack that loops during regular gameplay, a 'challenge' track, and a 'game over/winner' track.

The Maxis version has three soundtracks per game, stored in the 'MDS' MIDI format.

It has a hidden test mode with several features to test gameplay.

Microsoft's version simply uses an image that is a resource in the executable as a splash screen.

Usually, Full Tilt! Pinball tables load a video intro ( INTRO.AVI), that shows the Cinematronics and Full Tilt! logo.

The Microsoft release has several differences: