The classic marble game WinXP disappears after the reason

Computer Shop News: From Windows 95 to Windows XP, Windows has its own Pinball game, which is loved by many friends along with cards, minesweeping and other games. But in the Windows system after Windows XP, everyone has never seen the Pinball game. what is the root cause? Although there have been many speculations about this issue, Microsoft has not explained this. Recently, Microsoft MSDN official website, Microsoft finally solved this mystery.

Illustration: Microsoft Windows comes with a classic game Pinball (ball) Taiwan's technical staff revealed that his main job was to put tens of thousands of software in Windows XP Convert from 32 bits to 64 bits. However, there is a software problem, that is Pinball. The 64-bit version of the Pinball game has a very serious problem, the marbles will pass through other objects, just like ghosts. After starting the game, the marbles will slowly fall to the bottom of the screen after exiting the launcher, passing through the plunger and falling under the table.

The Microsoft team tried to fix this problem, but the code for this game was written by another outsourcing company many years ago, and most of the code didn't even have comments. Technicians couldn't find the conflict detector, and couldn't know why. The conflict detector is not working.

At the time, Microsoft faced a huge workload. There were millions of lines of code to migrate. There was really no effort to spend too much time researching Pinball's problems, so I gave up it directly.

Nowadays, Windows 8 has been released completely. The classic games that come with Windows system, such as minesweeping, playing cards, mahjong, etc., have also entered the Windows Store app store, and have optimized various interfaces and functions. Maybe we will See the new Pinball again in the Windows Store app store