If you miss Pinball...

[Catweazle]

Some may not be aware of this but the 3D Space Cadet pinball game in Plus!
98, Windows NT, 2000 and XP was really just a stripped down version of a
full game made by Maxis. It is called "Full Tilt! Pinball" and contains
Space Cadet (a much better looking version) as well as two other tables. I
bought my copy on eBay last year to use in XP, but it works fine in Vista
also.

If you can't find Full Tilt though you can just copy the XP version into
Vista, it works too.

 

[Peter]

copy the XP version into
Vista, it works too.


.........and how would one do that?

--
Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista Beta
P4 D865GBFL HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 700gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio

 

[Jane C]

Copy the Pinball folder over from
XPDrive:\Program Files\Windows NT to anywhere on your Vista drive

 

[Peter]

Thanks Jane, that was certainly less complicated than I thought.

 

[Catweazle]

Yeah, sorry I should have been more clear on that part.

 

[Peter]

No problem. It seems to work just fine, wonder why they chose to omit it?

--
Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista Beta
P4 D865GBFL HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 700gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio

 

[Catweazle]

I don't know, possibly a licensing issue since it belongs to Maxis. Maybe
they didn't want to renew it, or more likely they thought it just looked too
outdated for Vista compared to the other new games.

 

[Nicholas]

More like licensing issues than anything. See they worked with Oberon Games
to rework their games. Pinball is Maxis MS can't just ask Oberon games to
rework someone else's work (or it would be uneconomical to ask Maxis to redo
their game)