Re:SpaceCadetPinball – Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows
by leeter on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:37PM
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Actually 3d Pinball is available in the AMD64 Window XP 64 bit versions. It was not available (sort of... it's there but not actually installed from media) on IA-64 versions. There was a youtuber that dug into it (probably at the cost of far too much of their own sanity). So there is no "might have" it works (albeit with some rendering issues).
Re:SpaceCadetPinball – Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows
by JonathonW on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:49PM
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Was it compiled as a 64-bit executable on AMD64 Windows XP?
Re:SpaceCadetPinball – Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows
by leeter on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:59PM
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Yes... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EPTfOTC4Jw
Warning contains a youtuber bashing their head firmly against the pain of Itanium to test this.
(I'd love to see a GOG or Steam or even Origin release of Full Tilt Pinball, though. The Full Tilt version of Space Cadet is better-- higher-resolution graphics plus some gameplay tweaks.)
[edit] Digging a little deeper, that might not be entirely true. The first consumer version of Windows it didn't appear in was Vista, but it sounds like the decision to drop Pinball was made during the XP era (even though it shipped with x86 Windows XP). So issues with the IA64 port (or with another architecture) might've been the reason it was dropped, then that decision was not revisited for Vista even if Pinball might've worked under AMD64 Windows.