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3D Pinball bug allowed game to run at 5,000 FPS — former Microsoft programmer didn't add a rev limiter when porting game from Windows 95 to NT

Dave Plummer, the Microsoft programmer who ported Pinball from Windows 95 to NT, didn't add a frame limiter to the game, ...

Why 3D Pinball for Windows could hit 5,000 FPS — sort of

A coding quirk in 3D Pinball for Windows turned it into a high-performance anomaly on newer machines, using entire CPU cores ...