On: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?

[viraptor]

To me that fragment says that the story is a bit more colourful than what really happened. This quote comes from Raymond Chen. The guy who includes ISA bus, interrupts and starting up a debugger in one post (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/01/30/15574...); or analysing chip issues and software workarounds for them (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/01/12/10114...).

Maybe the code was really messy and hard to work with... but it's hard to believe that he couldn't find the collision detector ;)

[shmageggy → viraptor]

A programmer from the original game commented on the article and said much of it was done in asm then later ported to C by msft, so it probably was really that messy.

[agumonkey → shmageggy]

This smells like automatically generated procedure names based on dataflow analysis.