Dave Plummer

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #479 – Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories · 29 Aug 2025 podcast

But what it is, is I had a bug where I will draw as many frames per second as I can, which on a modern computer could be 5,000 frames a second for pinball because it's a pretty basic game.

And so all your physics are interpolated 5,000 times per second instead of 30 times a second or whatever you would have got in the old ones.

You're getting arguably better, at least different physics.

But they fixed that since.

Why is that game so awesome?

I think it's a great design.

I mean, I take no credit for that.

That's all totally the guys at Cinematronics.

But the original game is a great design.

It's very similar to Black Knight 2000, which I own as an actual physical pinball machine.

And the layout is actually very similar.

I don't know if it was inspired by it or not.

So it's a good game.

Well, those things were included in the OS, not as games, but as educational tools to get you to use a mouse.

Oh, interesting.

So Solitaire is there to show you how to do drag and drop.

Yeah.

And Minesweeper is probably right click.

I think you put a flag or something.

I'm not a Minesweeper guy, but so each one of them teaches you something.

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