Dave Plummer
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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.