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| shardian:
--- Quote from: unclet on December 16, 2007, 08:40:37 am --- I think the expiration thing is quite annoying and I no longer play Visual Pinball because of it. I do not believe table "emulation" is illegal so I do not understand why anything has to expire at all. I have everything installed on my cabinet and do not like having to keep grabbing a new version of PinMame to make it work ..... even if it is only every 6 months. I went through tons upon tons of table and verified they worked perfectly with my current setup to then discover none worked. I would hate to upgrade and then have to retest everything again, although chances are most will still work. --- End quote --- Rebuilding the table in virtual space, not so bad. Using original roms is the sticky point. However, most pinball manufaturers have made their roms freely available. Its the occasional stinker (cough...cough...Gottlieb...cough) that doesn't want their tables in pinmame. Well and Stern who still blesses us with new pinballs. I have no problem with their pins not being emulated. |
| unclet:
I tried just changing the date back on my computer to get Visual Pinball working. I could not keep that solution since changing the date backwards had an effect on other installed programs. Some of them did not work correctly. This was a very long time ago for me, but thought I would mention it here for something to be careful with. Basically, if stuff no longer works, then change the date back where it should be. I think it affected some programs which were installed months after Visual Pinball .... nto absolutely sure though ... too long ago for me to remember. |
| headkaze:
--- Quote from: Lilwolf on December 19, 2007, 07:03:25 am ---Yeah, keeping the tables up to date is a pain.... Especially when you have a large download just for some slight changes to the files. --- End quote --- If your using torrent zipped tables you should only need to download the newer tables. Also PleasureExtractor helps extract tables to make the job a little less painful. I believe there are non-expiring versions of Visual Pinball available on the vpforums site so you might want to have a browse around there. |
| unclet:
--- Quote ---I believe there are non-expiring versions of Visual Pinball available on the vpforums site so you might want to have a browse around there. --- End quote --- I believe there is a non-expiring version of "Visual Pinball" but is there a non-expiring version of "PinMame"? These are two separate things. If there is, then where can I get a non-expiring version of "PinMame"? |
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