On game engines, you might want to do more research. A pinball game is more open ended. It isn't like a first person shooter where it is an established format. Or even adventure games, though using such limits the scope of the play. So if you use a game engine, you are at the mercy of finding one th...

Instead of using code to make one, I would use a game engine. Well, I am not sure that is applicable to arcade style games. Game engines mostly apply to First Person Shooter games. If we wanted to include a Doom-like game, it is easy to get some version of the Quake engine or a 3rd party open sourc...

Justin, Thank you for the missing pieces. IA-64 changes things. --- Also, again, maybe another way to get a pinball is if some of us decide to write one. As suggested before, there are open source pinball games. So if someone could work on one of those and make it reasonably look and feel like the o...

shunesburg wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2019 2:23 pm Sorry, misunderstood of myself, cause I have read too quickly (and because I'm not native English speaker too).

Hey, it happens. I might have been too harsh.

I assume this is only for interns. There is nothing stopping the rest of us from already doing this.

That entry seems to be moved here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewth ... 0/?p=41363

I think this is being worked on. They want to make the compatibility engine to where it can selectively use the new APIs. Not sure of the details. I guess the goal would be to right click on a newer app, go to properties, and manually add in the compatibility section (that likely writes to the regis...

Yes, Hermes, the top link you posted was why I said what I did. They could, but it was a foreign code. There were math errors that did not surface using x32 code but did using amd64 code. It would require a comprehensive rewrite to eliminate all those. I think you missed what he asked. He meant leav...

shunesburg wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2019 10:20 am You can see all in these pages:
https://reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2019
https://reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_ ... 2019_Ideas

No, that's a separate program. He is talking about a new program SIMILAR to GSOC, but it is ONLY for documentation.

On Microsoft removing Pinball, a couple of things stand out on that. I don't see why they felt the need to attempt to rewrite it. It was already 32-bit and would run as-is under x64. The other thing is that it sounds like it had sloppy code to begin with. If I were them, I'd have sent the rewrite ba...

If you want a colon :, try holding Shift and hitting a semicolon ;.

Generally, your lower level languages are needed for the kernel, but all the stuff you mentioned could be acceptable for user mode stuff, particularly end user apps.

I find the self-hosting thing funny in the image.

Well, the assembly in the kernel is to be not just efficient, but exact, as you are dealing with specific locations, and sometimes you cannot leave it to chance which opcodes are used. C would take more fiddling, but can be done (or use some inline assembly with it). Portability is not an option whe...

Back to the original question, it is written mostly in C, with some things like parts of the shell that work with com objects written in C++, and parts of the kernel written in assembly.