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It would be soo cool if they open-sourced this game at this point.
.. like why not?
Well lucky for you someone has already done the work! SpaceCadetPinball
Honestly I’m bored enough to open Unity and get to work, but someone’s probably already got a project on GitHub.
Isn't there already a remaster? I came around this one from the KDE discovery.
It's not really a remaster, it's an open-source re-implementation. But I guess it could be used as a base for a remaster
Who needs a remaster? This is perfect.
Are we going to have a community that is focused on gaming discussion and another focused on memes and low-effort posts? Or are they going to be combined?
idk about you but this is a valid question that could be discussed if you werent so full of yourself
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Agreed because I don’t like the OP for being a low effort meme, but also I feel like if there’s a community you’re interested in, just go make it.
Especially as people migrate off of Reddit and Lemmy grows. Anyone coming from Reddit who was interested in games knows there is a demand for a discussion/news based community like r/games
Honestly, a community like /r/games without the power mod approach to what articles can be posted would be really nice.
It's definitely a valid question though, because Lemmy is going to be just as vulnerable as reddit to the problem of how much quicker low-effort memes accrue upvotes, which naturally results in them drowning out articles and discussion posts. The latter, despite being more interesting and generally "higher-quality", will always take more time per-user to engage with - so, in systems like this, they naturally fall behind in both pace and volume of upvote.
ah yes the gaming v games debate continues on a new platform, very interesting
Speaking of windows 95, any nostalgia communities yet?
Fuck yeah this shit slapped! I remember going to my grandma's in like 2001 and playing that with my cousins. And others like solitaire
I played a similar table on Virtual Pinball X. It was a lot of fun.
You can't remaster that which is already perfection
Nah, perfection was Pinball Dreams on the Amiga, way superior to everything on PC/Windows for a decade. Which is probably equivalent to about a 100 years if it was a car.
NGL - this is my 10 minute free time go-to on the SteamDeck
Wait, what? It's on Steam? Why hasn't anybody told me this before?
It's not on Steam, but you can add it as a non steam game and play it with Proton.
How do i do that?
O can’t remember exactly, but there s a procedure out there to add a non steam game to your deck, then it shows up in the game mode interface. It might have to be added on desktop mode, then it will be avail on steam mode. It’s basically the same hack as getting GOG or Epic launchers into Steam iirc.
It's not on steam, you need to get it from windows NT4/2000/ME/XP or Microsoft plus 95. But you can run it on a steam deck/Linux computer via proton
I'm pretty sure there's a native Linux port now on flathub.
What is there to remaster?
For anyone on Android, you can get the game here
There is also an open source version you can get on Github for android https://github.com/fexed/Pinball-on-Android
... and that was the end of my productivity for the day.
Twas remastered in 2021 in the Microsoft Store my dude. Have fun
I just tried it, and wow, that is really bad actually. Genuinely much worse than finding a download of the original version.
Do you happen to know where I could find an original download?
You can always go check out Dave's garage on YouTube hes got a nice video on it and links to aquire it
https://youtu.be/ThxdvEajK8g
Looks like that one is from 2013 and last updated in 2015, so what happened to 2021?
How about a web version?
https://alula.github.io/SpaceCadetPinball/
I'll let Dave explain: https://youtu.be/ThxdvEajK8g
And here's the blog from the other guy - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=5803
Hey, Dave!
If only I could be as cool as that Dave.
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It would be soo cool if they open-sourced this game at this point.
.. like why not?
Well lucky for you someone has already done the work! SpaceCadetPinball
Honestly I’m bored enough to open Unity and get to work, but someone’s probably already got a project on GitHub.
Isn't there already a remaster? I came around this one from the KDE discovery.
It's not really a remaster, it's an open-source re-implementation. But I guess it could be used as a base for a remaster
Who needs a remaster? This is perfect.
Are we going to have a community that is focused on gaming discussion and another focused on memes and low-effort posts? Or are they going to be combined?
idk about you but this is a valid question that could be discussed if you werent so full of yourself
🥇
Agreed because I don’t like the OP for being a low effort meme, but also I feel like if there’s a community you’re interested in, just go make it.
Especially as people migrate off of Reddit and Lemmy grows. Anyone coming from Reddit who was interested in games knows there is a demand for a discussion/news based community like r/games
Honestly, a community like /r/games without the power mod approach to what articles can be posted would be really nice.
It's definitely a valid question though, because Lemmy is going to be just as vulnerable as reddit to the problem of how much quicker low-effort memes accrue upvotes, which naturally results in them drowning out articles and discussion posts. The latter, despite being more interesting and generally "higher-quality", will always take more time per-user to engage with - so, in systems like this, they naturally fall behind in both pace and volume of upvote.
ah yes the gaming v games debate continues on a new platform, very interesting
Speaking of windows 95, any nostalgia communities yet?
https://lemmy.world/c/nostalgia
Make one, I'll sub.
You can find several ports of pinball on GitHub. https://github.com/fexed/Pinball-on-Android is the android version I like to use.
Wow, right in the nostalgia.
Careful what you wish for. 2024 EA announces remaster of Zen Pinball.
I'm pretty sure I still have that on a 3.5" floppy somewhere. I also have a 3.5" drive that could read it, but I have nothing I could plug it into.
So many hours spent playing this game when I was a kid.
They made a remake for Windows store a while ago, and it was awful
Will it have paid day-one DLC? Online leaderboards and rankings? NFTs? Requires constant online connectivity? Battlepass with flipper cosmetics?
Like the crap they slapped onto solitaire? That was ridiculous.
Tell me your joking
Nope. It's now bloated with ads and "premium" features...nothing is sacred.
solitare
Fuck yeah this shit slapped! I remember going to my grandma's in like 2001 and playing that with my cousins. And others like solitaire
I played a similar table on Virtual Pinball X. It was a lot of fun.
You can't remaster that which is already perfection
Nah, perfection was Pinball Dreams on the Amiga, way superior to everything on PC/Windows for a decade. Which is probably equivalent to about a 100 years if it was a car.
NGL - this is my 10 minute free time go-to on the SteamDeck
Wait, what? It's on Steam? Why hasn't anybody told me this before?
It's not on Steam, but you can add it as a non steam game and play it with Proton.
How do i do that?
O can’t remember exactly, but there s a procedure out there to add a non steam game to your deck, then it shows up in the game mode interface. It might have to be added on desktop mode, then it will be avail on steam mode. It’s basically the same hack as getting GOG or Epic launchers into Steam iirc.
It's not on steam, you need to get it from windows NT4/2000/ME/XP or Microsoft plus 95. But you can run it on a steam deck/Linux computer via proton
I'm pretty sure there's a native Linux port now on flathub.
Edit: here's a link https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.k4zmu2a.spacecadetpinball
Cool, didn't know about that
I have spent so much time on this!