![]() ![]() The 64-bit version of Pinball had a pretty nasty bug where the ball would simply pass through other objects like a ghost. This required updating and writing millions of lines of code to support the new architecture, and some older programs were more difficult to work with than others: Although Microsoft released a 64-bit version of Windows XP, it wasn’t until Vista, and especially Windows 7, that 64-bit Windows hit the mainstream. ![]() As explained in a 2012 MSDN blog post by Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen, the real reason for the loss of Windows Pinball was the switch from a 32-bit to a 64-bit architecture. ![]()
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