The Pinball Space Cadet Experience On A Classic Mac vs Windows XP – ✅ Quickdraw & Inputsprockets ✅

#Quickdraw #InputSprockets #MacOS #WindowsXP #gaming

In this video I wanted to re-create the Windows XP Space Cadet Pinball experience on MacOS 9. Both operating systems were contemporaries of one another and I remember being blown away by the fact that Windows XP came with a friggin’ pinball game built in, instead of just Solitaire and Minefield.

Windows 9x/XP were very solid gaming platforms whereas MacOS really wasn’t known for its gaming prowess. Windows became quit gaming capable with the introduction of WinG and Win32 subsets on Windows 3.x and DirectX on Windows 9x.
On MacOS you see a similar development of standardized driver subsets that allowed uniform and faster access to the computer hardware. On the classic MacOS these ‘drivers’ were Quickdraw and Inputsprocket that allowed various 3D cards, sound and input pheriperals to work well with MacOS.

So can the Windows XP “Space Cadet” Pinball experience be created on MacOS 9? Should MacOS users not have been jealous of the built-in pinball that Windows XP came with?

Chapters
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:00:21 – Booting into MacOS 9 and creating a Microsoft Windows XP vibe
00:00:58 – A Crash and a Reboot after activating the Bliss wallpaper
00:01:14 – Showing the presence of the Quickdraw and InputSprockets in the extensions folder
00:01:30 – Adding some more Microsoft vibes
00:01:50 – Starting Space Cadet Pinball on MacOS – will it be good?
00:04:50 – Booting into Windows XP – this is how it should feel! 😎😁 (takes much longer than the Mac!)
00:07:04 – Running both Space Cadet games simultaneously side by side
00:10:01 – Finishing up the Windows XP game
00:11:11 – End credits

Notes:
Windows XP was a major release of Microsoft’s Windows NT operating system. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001.

Mac OS 9 is the ninth major release of Apple’s classic Mac OS operating system with the initial release date: October 23, 1999. It was succeeded by Mac OS X in 2001. This was the classic MacOS that ran on PowerPC CPUs.

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