[HN Gopher] Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pin...
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       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:
        
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