Former MS engineer Dave Plummer admits he accidentally coded Pinball to run 'at like, 5,000 frames per second' on Windows NT
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/former-ms-engineer-dave-plummer-admits-he-accidentally-coded-pinball-to-run-at-like-5-000-frames-per-second-on-windows-nt/
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RedSnt@feddit.dk · 48 pts · 343d
I guess I could be a writer for PC Gamer since I already watch Dave's youtube videos.
PSA: Space Cadet Pinball has been reverse engineered and you can now run it on most popular platforms and even consoles. (flatpak version)
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 19 pts · 343d
Well I don't watch it, I don't watch anyone's, as they take 4-10 times longer to explain something than I can read it. I would've never learned this otherwise, so I'm glad he wrote it up, and linked to his source:
I mean really, what more can you ask for than clearly giving credit?
RedSnt@feddit.dk · 5 pts · 343d
::: spoiler You're absolutely right. My problem with some websites due to the aggressive adblocking I do is bricking some sites like pcgamer, probably why I was miffed, and as a result I couldn't see PC Gamer giving him credit in the article. It wasn't until I switched to reader mode I could see it.
:::
nerfherder@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 343d
Has anyone re-released the other pinball machines?
Edit: Memory is fleeting, I am actually liking for Enigma from This game
Malix@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 343d
if you're asking about epic pinball, it's on gog: https://www.gog.com/en/game/epic_pinball_the_complete_collection
nerfherder@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 343d
Wow! Thank you!
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 343d
Well this is no longer true, W11 is a mess
fulg@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 343d
This is kind of misleading though. It was common at the time for games to run as fast as possible and then break as CPUs got faster.
One famous example is Wing Commander which is unplayable on a Pentium-class machine because it runs too fast.
This is also why DOSBox has a speed setting and a keyboard shortcut to adjust it at runtime.
greybeard@feddit.online · 6 pts · 342d
My understanding is that the turbo button in old PCs wasn't to make the computer go faster, but to underclock it to match what games expected. A physical compatibility mode button, essentially.
fulg@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 342d
Yes precisely. It typically made the PC run at 4.77MHz to match the original IBM PC. Back then Turbo meant 8 or 12 MHz, not much more…
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 343d
Fantasy Empires was the one for me. Regular game played fine, but 5 minute battles that I could play at realtime on a 486DX-66 were over in 1/10th of a second on a PC 10 years later.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 342d
A bunch of games have framerates locked now to prevent these issues
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7PpTiK1jYPw
Fps differences in cod 4