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Maybe i am not the first, but today I found out the 3D Pinball game that comes with Windows NT works great under Windows 3.11 with Win32s installed.
I installed it on one of my "scrapheap" computers and although the videocard is an old Trident 8900c with 1Mb memory and a maximum of 256 colors I was amazed about the "3d performance"!
Although I am not a gamer I am still wondering why new videocards need more and more performance.
The Pinball game is also found on the Windows 95 Plus CD, but I havent tested that one until now....
You're kidding?!
Wow! Nice!
I've never tried it in Win3.1 before. It runs fine in Win95 on one of my PCs, yet running it in Windows NT 3.51 on that same PC is very slow. I'll have to see what it does in Win3.1...
That's one thing I've never understood... NT4 and Win2000 are supposed to be more "buisness" oriented systems, while Win 95/98 were home users systems. So why did NT4/2000 come with pinball, but not 95/98? Strange... (and it'll work just fine in 95/98 if it's copied over, too...)
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I think it did not come with the 9x standard install so MS could rip you off for thier "Plus" packs that only added some theming, basic games, cool screensavers, more icons, and better backrounds. I thin that they were included in 2k and NT because sometimes work can get really dull, and some stimuli is better than staring at an excel spreadsheet all day.
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LOL, could be... I never realized that Pinball came with the Plus packs... The only one I've ever used was the Plus! that came on the Win98SE CD, which didn't have Pinball. (I don't think, anyway)
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Strange that its slow on NT 3.51, because it really has "realtime" performance on the old 486.
I think I will even try it on a 386 if I have the time, but my guess is it will work there fine too.
Since I have the 95 Plus Pack too I will try that one to see if its different from the NT 4 version.
I did install some 3.1x updates and maybe the WinG update contributes to the better performance.....
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Got 2 computers running Win XP. My P4 runs pinball great, of course.
I've got this other system, a 300MHz Celeron with 64MB running XP, and man, the ball just skips around, CPU usage blasts all the way to 100, while my P4 just stays around 8%. I'll try running pinball on my 486 DX 33 dual booting Win95 and 3.11 for Workgroups.
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Pinball's one of the few games i really like- you say its on the nt4 disk? which folder- ive got several pinball games and they all time out after 5 minutae , then youy have to restart them- as far as NT4 being business oriented- from the one friend i had who worked in seattle-it seems nt351 had the old "business oriented" interface because the new one was considered "too domestic"
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Just looked all over-- couldnt find it - maybe cuz my disks are OEM?
Anyone know where it is??
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Well the Pinball Space Kadet 3D I am using until now is actually from Windows NT4 Server (Dutch Edition). Have to check if its on NT Workstation too...
However I am shure its on the Windows 95 Plus CD.
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Aw cr*p, ive looked on all odf 'em now, all my disks are either workstations, or dont have it . Im not sure which is the "plus "cd but ive "95b
v21 which says on the it "extra games" but only delivers hoverball (whih also runs on w31, incidentally) and the orig. w95, which came with pretty much the same stuff.
Serves me right- every time i had ta make a chouce between server and workstation- i always figured to myself "ive got the corel linux" which i *still* havent installed , and settled on the workstation....!
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