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Anyone explain Visual Pinball?
namzep:
I'm pretty sure that the expiration date of Visual Pinball (at least I think it's Visual Pinball that had one) was removed in the more recent builds. Someone correct me if I'm wrong on this.
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: namzep on June 15, 2004, 08:23:09 pm ---I'm pretty sure that the expiration date of Visual Pinball (at least I think it's Visual Pinball that had one) was removed in the more recent builds. Someone correct me if I'm wrong on this.
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Yes and no.
Visual Pinball used to expire each year, and I got out of the scene right before my copy died.
However, about a month later, they released the current version which will never expire.
OTOH, vpinMAME, I don't think expires, but many of the newer tables and the new visual pinball won't work without a fairly new version of it.
Onji:
albrigsr check pm please
Lilwolf:
btw, Tiger touched on this...
vpinmame is an true emulator based on mame. It emulates all the boards in a pinball machine to tell what lights light up, the sound, and take the input for each piece on the pinball board.
VisualPinball is a super version of the old pinball construction set. Where you SIMULATE a pinball table. It simulates what the ball will do, and you get to design tables, and play them.
Then they combined them so you play all the original rules of the table, with the real sounds ect (vpinmame) on a simulated playfield that looks like the original (visualpinball)
take note on vpinmame... there is a version that works with a special board that you can hook a computer inside of a pinball table if it has missing / bad circuit boards... So you can revive old pinball tables.
Also..
There are fun VisualPinball tables that have nothing to do with vpinmame...
Demon-Seed:
Hi
I tried visual pinball. I load a table hit play and get a microsoft error and says its closing. I downloaded it from both AJs Vpinamme site and VPFORUMS (as listed above) i followed the directions to a tee.. not sure why its not working,