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It's not necessarily the size of the executable but rather that it's another executable the part of the build and test process of the base image. Pinball had t

• merijnv 9y ago
  > Pinball had to be removed for this sort of reason. What? No. It was removed because it was a 32bit application written by a 3rd party and there was a hard to fix bug on 64bit windows that made it unplayable, so they dropped it. Source: Raymond Chen - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=5803 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=...
  • garaetjjte 9y ago
    That doesn't make sense, it could be run on WoW64. (even Visual Studio is 32-bit)
    • anonymfus 9y ago
      Visual Studio is not a part of Windows. From Raymond Chen's answer to this question in the first comment to the same blog post: > That would have been even more work, because there was at the time no infrastructure in Setup for having 32-bit-only components. (And then automatically uninstalling it when WOW64 was disabled.)
• antod 9y ago
  I was under the impression pinball was removed because it was basically unsupportable and too had too much low level hacky graphics code to port across changes in the graphics subsystems. A shame though, it was a fun game.