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Well that's just sad. Pinball was dropped because of incompetent programmers. Don't 32-bit binaries work on 64-bit anyways?

• thought_alarm 12y ago
  It was dropped because Microsoft felt it was inappropriate or embarrassing to ship an app that they themselves could not port to 64-bit, at a time when they were asking 3rd party developers to do the same.
  • Titanbase 12y ago
    As the article states, this is incorrect. It could have been converted to 64-bit, but they didn't have the time.
• SEMW 12y ago
  Raymond address that in his reply to the first comment on TFA. "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.) ..."
• extempore 12y ago
  The offhand dismissal of Raymond Chen as an "incompetent programmer" captures the hacker news zeitgeist.
  • mikeash 12y ago
    I agree with your sentiment, but I don't think he's pointing the finger at Chen.