![]() 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. 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. ![]() The 64-bit version of Pinball had a pretty nasty bug where the ball would simply pass through other objects like a ghost. But one of the programs that ran into trouble was Pinball. ![]() One of the things I did in Windows XP was port several millions of lines of code from 32-bit to 64-bit Windows so that we could ship Windows XP 64-bit Edition. Microsoft had explained the reason for dropping this game earlier: You will now be able to access
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