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> 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
by 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 agoThat doesn't make sense, it could be run on WoW64. (even Visual Studio is 32-bit)
- anonymfus 9y agoVisual 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.)