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Pinball-Browser : Customize your game !

By oga83

10 years ago


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Post #1 Description of capabilities and download link. Posted by oga83 (10 years ago)

Post #600 How to find the names of the lamp matrix locations. Posted by oga83 (10 years ago)

Post #858 Video on how to replace a song. Posted by Underspin (10 years ago)

Post #1432 Macro function explained. Posted by oga83 (9 years ago)


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#4287 3 years ago
Quoted from Thunderbird:

+1, please consider making PB Mac friendly. Not sure why some software continues to be only windows centric, when Apple is the biggest computer company in the world and used by more and more people.

Fact Check: Apple computers make up less than 15% of market share, which is why many developers don’t write to the platform.

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#4316 3 years ago
Quoted from djb_rh:

One, I’d bet the number of Mac users among Pinball owners is significantly higher than that for socio-economic reasons. Two, even if it’s “just” 15%, how many other ways can you increase the sales of your software by 15% (or more)? These days I doubt it’s 15% more work to port to a UI that can handle both, and I can’t help but wonder if support issues aren’t going to just cancel out the folks who are having problems trying to run it under emulation/vm/whatever on a Mac now.
—Donnie

Solution (in most cases): Run Windows emulator on MAC (oddly enough, virtually nobody every wants/needs to run a Mac emulator on Windows).

#4317 3 years ago
Quoted from ectobar:

I love an old school Win v Mac pissing contest

Coincidentally, I've never met a Microsoft/Windows fanboy, but rarely do I meet a Mac owner who isn't. I don't really understand the psychological devotion to a corporation/product, but I get the sense that it comes from either a feeling of elitism, living vicariously, or an inferiority complex (not sure which).

Quoted from Napoleon:

Fact check:
Apple market cap is 500 billion (billion with a "B" junior) higher than Microsoft's. I know a lot of you fanboys still think it's the 90's and you haven't adjusted to the new reality. The Mac's market share continues to grow, as Windows becomes the stagnant old man of tech. Ignoring that base is not wise. Having Macs in an enterprise environment, once relegated to marketing departments, is no longer an issue. Younger CEOs insist on using a Mac now. I watched this change within more than one large company of the last few years. If you had told me this 20 years ago, I would have laughed. The schools are even more predominately Apple than they even have been at any point in the past. Kids that grow up using iPads will buy Macs later in life. Nothing is going to save Windows at this point. They are too stuck in the traditional Wintel desktop model, which is slowly dying. Their future heavily rests on their cloud services, which are becoming less and less reliant on Windows. That does not bode well for the continued high market share of Windows.
Development tools aren't what they used to be in the 90's either. Cross platform development is relatively easy, especially with tools like Xojo, which can have one code base and spit out native binaries for Mac, Linux, and Windows.
To sum it up, it's not 1997 anymore, Virginia. It's more than fair for customers to ask about Mac native versions. They may not get it, but it's not absurd to ask.

Sorry, I was just going by the last 4 quarter's market share numbers (it may not be the 90's anymore, but it is still 2020). If you develop on mobile, then iOS is definitely the platform to do it on, albeit Android would have a good argument. Actually, in FY 2019 Apple's Mac sales only generated 9.8% of their total revenue.

Additionally, if you research desktop market share, Windows is 73.2% with OS X a distant second at 16.5% over the last 12 months. Bottom line is that Microsoft still dominates the professional business world outside of specific verticals.

To your cloud point, Microsoft is one of the leaders in that space. Besides their Azure platform having 19% market share (2nd behind AWS at 32%), Office 365 holds it's own with about 40% market share verses Google's 59%.

This isn't a conversation about which is better or blindly sticking Apple/Windows decals on everything you own. Rather, it's about the current state of reality in the desktop OS world (of course, mobile is a completely different conversation). Until this changes with a competitive OS or a future one to come, the dominate desktop development will continue to be on the Windows platform (just ask the various Linux flavors about that reality - they were supposed to take over the desktop market 15-20 years ago, if you recall). Cloud processing may take over the desktop one day in the future, but currently we are nowhere close to having equivalent performance using that technology versus local processing, mostly due to the bandwidth bottleneck.

BTW, glad to know you aspire to be a professional futurist (I actually know people in that business), but my advice would be to not make the career change just yet.

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#4329 3 years ago
Quoted from Ashram56:

I can't imagine this is what the original developer of the mod intended. Anyone would have his contact information ?

He literally posted 3 posts above yours - oga83

#4335 3 years ago
Quoted from Phantasize:

Does anybody know the latest Turtles Premium firmware that can be opened and edited? Just bought one, and as much as I love the gameplay, i really can't stand that music!
I was unable to find a key post with verified games and versions. Perhaps that would be s nice thing to have?

See post directly above yours.

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#4366 3 years ago
Quoted from oga83:

Pinball Browser v7.70 is available !
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Should we upgrade even if using for a different pin/firmware version that is currently supported (JP 1.03)?

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#4467 3 years ago
Quoted from Spyderturbo007:

Does anyone know how to loop a song? Meaning if I put in a 5m song for a slot that's 7m, is there a way to easily loop it to just start at the beginning? I don't really care if it gets cut off at the 7m mark and starts again. I was just looking for a way to get rid of any silence.

Pull it into Audacity, select entire song, copy, put cursor at end of song, paste, then trim or let PBB do it automatically when importing.

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