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I am working on an old system that the owner wants Pinball installed. As Win98 did not come with it, it has been suggested that I use MS Plus 95 in conjunction with the Win98 disk to obtain and install it. Unfortunately, I cannot find it and MS refuses to assist nonsupported software issues.
Can anyone assist with any ideas concerning obtaining Plus 95 and how to install it?
http://www.microsoft.com/Games/pinb...
http://www.thepinballzone.net/game....
"If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions" - Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) in Pulp Fiction
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188204
will tell you how to install it.
This was the only one I could find on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Windows-95-Upgr...
but you might want to keep checking there for something cheaper.
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Thanks to both responses. I had seen the one on ebay and had dismissed it, as it is not supported by its maker, paying for it seems unfair.
As for the trial download of the pinball, that is very interesting and will consider it. The problem is that the computer owner does not use it online at all.
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You don't need to install 95 plus to get pinball to run.
All you need are the pinball files themselves. I ran pinball on Win98SE that way.
If the owner knows about pinball they must have had the files at one time.
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I was using a good free Pinball game on my Win98 PC and was made by a Beer manufactirer as an advertisement.
Using Google I found, what appears, to be the link or a related link but since I am am work and the link includes "game" my company firewall blocks the site but have a look. If it is the same one it was pretty good. They also had a pool game and a dart game all freebies.
The link is definately not the same place I got it from but suspect the game is.http://www.mrfreefree.com/free_game...
HTH
Bryan
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Thank you for the link, I will access it as soon as possible.
The owner of the computer had the game with another PC, but had seen it other peoples computers.
As for the Pinball.exe found on the Plus 95 software, that ultimately is what I am after. As I am having trouble locating the software itself, I cannot install it. I do thank you though for the verification that the process is possible to complete favorably.
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I have a CD of Win95 Plus. There are 8 needed files located in CAB 2. They total about 1.3 MB in size. You would still need the inf file referred to in the MSKB article linked by DAVINCAPS.
Interestingly, the .exe will actually load in WinXP without any install but is not playable.
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We could probably email you the files but the .inf file assumes you're installing from the plus! cd and may not know what to do if the files are already extracted.
Or I could burn you a copy of the plus! cd.
But unless the guy is hooked on the plus! version, something like Bryan's link may be just as good.
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Seems the Pinball on XP is ancient. I just found the exact same game on an old W95 demo CD, which came as a freebie with a magazine. On XP I was able to run it straight from the CD .exe without install.
As per OtheHill (#4) the XP files ran fine on my W98SE as a stand-alone too.
If nobody locally can give you the XP files, click "Private message" where you can give me your email and I'll send them. Don't just type your address on these forum pages because the spammers will find it....
some other bloke...
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3D Pinball (which came w/95+, ME, NT4, 2K, XP, but not 98SE or 98+) was just a remake of the original "Space Cadet" pinball that was released with the Maxis "Full Tilt Pinball" package (with some slight rules/award differences). You should find everything you need here (at comment #3):
http://www.mdgx.com/newtip23.htm#3DPI
And for what it's worth, the download even works with Win3.1 (if Win32s is installed as well)
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I will let you know as soon as I can if that works. Thank you to everyone who has assisted on this. I remember now why my first computer repair instructor told me to use this site.
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Thank you to all who have assisted in this endeavor. T-R-A gave an excellent reference where the pinball game was able to be downloaded directly and it both installed and runs perfectly. Thanks for the help.
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