Decided to open my Amiga emulator and play one of my favorites from my teenage years. If you’ve never played this game, you’ll be surprised when you do. 4 tables. It feels surprisingly realistic. The ball moves like on a real pinball table. The music is very late 80s early 90s, of course!

  • FinalBoy1975@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    That was my favorite Windows game that came with the OS. I wonder why they removed it? Is it because they wanted to sell it as Full Tilt?

    • beforan@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It was fundamentally broken in 64-bit Windows for a long time due to a practically unfindable bug, so they just removed it.

      I think it’s been fixed or recreated now though?

      • WaterWaiver@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        There is an open source port that works natively on Windows, Linux and other platforms. I played it quite a bit :)

        Interesting note in the project readme:

        On 64-bit bug that killed the game

        I did not find it, decompiled game worked in x64 mode on the first try.
        It was either lost in decompilation or introduced in x64 port/not present in x86 build.
        Based on public description of the bug (no ball collision), I guess that the bug was in TEdgeManager::TestGridBox