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I'm on mobile and can't find the link at the moment, but somebody at Microsoft (Raymond Chen maybe?) did a blog post about Pinball and why it's not in Windows anymore and not likely to make a comeback. IIRC it was written by an outside company, and the code is extremely hairy and was deemed too much effort to port to 64-bit for the return they'd get.


Yeah that's my link! :)

The last line is: " Hey everybody asking that the source code be released: The source code was licensed from another company. If you want the source code, you have to go ask them."

Which seems like a cop out. Microsoft you've got clout, make the deal.


>Microsoft you've got clout, make the deal.

Or "Microsoft, you've got the developers, code a remastered version."


I forgot about this. Yeah, that was one of my favorite games on WinXP as a kid.

I even installed it on my Linux machine once, under WINE: if you miss it too, I reccomend you do the same: works like a charm.




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