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farmecologist:

Hi all,

I was poking around the vpforums site and saw that a Visual Pinball 8 beta has been released:

    http://www.vpforums.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41062

To quote the message:


--- Quote ---Additionally, I have improved the 'play only' scenario (/play -tablename) so that when you double-click a table file, the editor does not display at all, and when you exit the player, it exits to windows, not the editor. One question: For those people who write front-ends to VP, is there any desired behavior from this mode than to just be able to pass a close-window message to the VP player and have the process exit?

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It seems like this might make life easier for cabinet use.   I'll try it out soon and report back.



ChadTower:

There have been front ends that could mostly do that for a while.  I almost never enter the editor.

farmecologist:
I know..However, I was never able to get the 'wrappers' to work reliably with mamewah.   I know quite a few others have had the same problem.   In my opinion it is always better to have the program exit cleanly rather than have a 'wrapper' program running.

 

ChadTower:

It definitely wasn't purely cab friendly.  OTOH, they may not want it to be... no one wants to get legally slapped around the way MAME has been.

FrizzleFried:
Oh how I wish SOMEONE would write a VERTICAL pinball emulator...it only sounds NATURAL that this would be done,  but evidently not.

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