Tom's Hardware on MSN

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 ...
The Register on MSN

Microsoft veteran's worst Windows bug was Pinball running at 5,000 FPS

Dev admits the game once ate an entire CPU core Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has come clean and admitted that the ...