[HN Gopher] Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pin... ___________________________________________________________________ Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pinball on 64-bit Windows Author : pjmlp Score : 101 points Date : 2022-01-07 06:27 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (devblogs.microsoft.com) (TXT) w3m dump (devblogs.microsoft.com) | _fat_santa wrote: | Going down the rabbit hole of some of the referenced articles. I | read this one [1] about Microsoft's attempts to resurrect the | game. The problem seems to be the license agreement does not | allow MS to release the game as a standalone copy. Not a lawyer | but wouldn't it be pretty easy for MS to just re-license it? MS | has a market cap of 2.3T, I think they could swing it without too | much of a sweat. | | [1]: | https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20181221-00/?p=10... | wildzzz wrote: | No need to relicense and release it again. Space Cadet is part | of Full Tilt! Pinball which is hosted online at a certain | abandonware website. Until Maxis (or EA) decides to release it | again, just download a free copy of it. There are even | instructions out there for getting it to work on Windows 10. | Nextgrid wrote: | > MS has a market cap of 2.3T, I think they could swing it | without too much of a sweat. | | I could imagine that the rightsholders are aware and would want | to exploit it by charging fees significantly higher than what | they'd normally charge for something like this, and thus | Microsoft isn't biting. | selectodude wrote: | Judging by Cinematronics and the long chain of purchases, | closures and divestures, it wouldn't surprise me if there | wasn't anybody who even knows who the hell owns the rights at | this point. Unfortunately for Microsoft, they're _very_ worth | suing and consider it not worth it to have that exposure over | Space Cadet Pinball. | sunjester wrote: | The mark of Windows, "My proudest achievement of Windows XP was | fixing the game so it didn't consume 100% CPU." | Zenst wrote: | Aha - Dave Plumber had something to say about this last year | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThxdvEajK8g | tgtweak wrote: | So... Is there an arm64 version rolling around? | marcodiego wrote: | Try box86. I can run it correctly using wine on x64. | bpye wrote: | Check out https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball | sharmin123 wrote: ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-01-09 23:00 UTC)