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3D Pinball bug allowed the game to run at 5,000 FPS in Windows NT when faster CPUs arrived— former Microsoft programmer didn't add a rev limiter when porting game from Windows 95 to NT
10 Sep 2025 18:10 GMT
3D Pinball: Space Cadet is one of the classic games found in early copies of Windows, first arriving in Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95, before being bundled into the operating system until Windows XP. However, Dave Plummer, who ported the game over from 95 …
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Former MS engineer Dave Plummer admits he accidentally coded Pinball to run 'at like, 5,000 frames per second' on Windows NT
09 Sep 2025 10:55 GMT
… ran great on my old Windows NT 4.0 beige box, and … he ported the game to Windows NT from Windows 95, he wrote … 'd get that iconic Windows NT 4.0 error sound instead …
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PC security will never be perfect. But that shouldn’t stop progress
12 Sep 2025 12:32 GMT
… suddenly act wonky. But this Windows NT-era game accidentally running for …
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A Windows 95 classic could run at 5,000 FPS, but only because of a quirky game bug
10 Sep 2025 18:17 GMT
… Windows - Space Cadet from Windows NT to Windows 95. Plummer recently …
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Salat Stealer Exfiltrates Browser Credentials Via Sophisticated C2 Infrastructure
10 Sep 2025 04:25 GMT
… paths—C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows NT\Lightshot.exe, for example—making …
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Microsoft veteran's worst Windows bug was Pinball running at 5,000 FPS
09 Sep 2025 09:07 GMT
… ported the original game to Windows NT, converting chunks of assembly into …
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Nintendo GameCube modified to run PowerPC Windows NT and Doom
04 Mar 2025 17:08 GMT
… supported by the original Windows NT PowerPC releases. This build … interested in seeing this Windows NT software run on a … recorded footage of the Windows NT installation process, some basic … snapshot of Windows NT and PowerPC in the pre-Windows NT 3. …
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Nintendo's GameCube Gets a Productivity Makeover Thanks to a PowerPC Windows NT Port
28 Feb 2025 02:49 GMT
… Windows NT 3.51 for the Nintendo GameCube.
"[Microsoft Windows] NT … Windows NT. (📷: Baz1521, CC BY-SA 3.0)
Microsoft launched WIndows NT, … it seems also for Windows NT.
The operating system can … selected PowerPC versions of Windows NT boot on the GameCube …
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vCISO.One to tackle industrial IoT ‘blind spot’
08 Sep 2025 03:16 GMT
… ’s very, very old stuff: Windows NT, Windows 95. And increasingly this …
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