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Video games
fromGameSpot
1 day ago

Space Cadet 3D Pinball Had A Glitch That Ran It At An Absurdly High Frame Rate

A bug in Space Cadet 3D Pinball's engine caused it to render frames uncontrollably fast on powerful machines, consuming an entire CPU core.
Software development
fromTheregister
3 days ago

Microsoft veteran's worst Windows bug was all about Pinball

Pinball shipped with a frame-rate bug that rendered frames as fast as possible, causing extreme CPU usage until a frame limiter reduced frame rate and CPU use.
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