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bcoates on Dec 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?

Maybe the reason the Brownian motion stopped working was a shift from 80-bit x87 intermediaries to 64-bit SSE in x64, and the removal of long double support from MSVC.

yuhong on Dec 18, 2012 [–]

And I think ia64 has yet another different 82-bit floating point architecture that is supposed to be compatible with x87.

daeken on Dec 18, 2012 | [–]

Bear in mind, IA64 is not x86-64, but rather the ISA for Itanium chips.

brudgers on Dec 19, 2012 | | [–]

The port was to Windows XP 64-bit Edition. That's the Itanium version. The x64 version was Windows XP Professional x64.

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