Add 3D Pinball To Windows Vista

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1. Unknown said:

   You can download it from here to:
   http://www.bestvistadownloads.com/software/t-free-3d-pinball-unlimited-download-hhbjplnc.html

   December 18th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
2. Unknown said:

   Disregard that last comment it’s shareware and you have to install it.

   December 18th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
3. Ron said:

   I have been looking for sites like this for a long time. Thank you!

   July 31st, 2008 at 8:58 pm
4. jetli007 said:

   thank you bro

   September 7th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
5. Kevin said:

   @jetli007, Thanks for visiting.
   Kevin

   September 8th, 2008 at 4:29 am
6. Darlene said:

   I’ve been trying to find Space Cadet 3-D Pinball for Vista for years. Unfortunately I no longer have access to Windows XP. Do you know any other ways to download it? Virus free?

   September 9th, 2008 at 1:58 am
7. Kevin said:

   @Darlene, Check your Email for a link to the files.
   Kevin.

   September 9th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
8. Willem said:

   The site\’\’s very professional! Keep up the good work! Oh yes, one extra comment – maybe you could add more pictures too! So, good luck to your team!t

   September 15th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
9. theodor said:

   but i only have one computer and no windows XP

   October 1st, 2008 at 9:34 am
10. Chris said:

    Hi! I followed the instructions to move Space Cadet Pinball folder from my XP pc to my Vista pc. When I click Pinball from my Vista Start menu, I get an error: “WAVEMIX.INF is missing – it must be in the pinball directory!”, although that file IS in the pinball directory. Has anyone come across this problem? Thanks! Chris

    October 2nd, 2008 at 5:42 pm
11. Kevin said:

    @theodor, Check your Email, I sent you the files you need.
    Kevin.

    October 2nd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
12. Kevin said:

    @Chris, I haven’t run across that error before, Let me run some tests and I’ll see what I can come up with.
    Kevin.

    October 2nd, 2008 at 6:11 pm
13. Chris said:

    Hi Kevin, Thanks for checking into this. Just a note – my mom was working on a word document this morning when she told me there was something strange appearing on the screen…it was an icon of that WAVEMIX.INF file, as if it had been pasted onto her document. It freaked me out! I right-clicked it and deleted it from her document, but am very, very puzzled!! Chris

    October 3rd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
14. judy said:

    Hi, all. Nice site…I really like your site ! Good job man.

    October 3rd, 2008 at 8:09 pm
15. Kevin said:

    @Chris, Sorry I can’t recreate your problem, The only thing I can think to tell you is to delete all the files and retry everything.
    Kevin.

    October 4th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
16. Chris said:

    Thanks Kevin – I’ll try that. The 2nd issue I mentioned doesn’t seem to be related to the pinball issue, althoughthe wavemix file was involved…I’m getting lots of text & files which have been previously cut/copied/pasted appearing randomly in Word docs. Strange! Might be the “trial” version of MS Office I’m using causing that… Again thanks for looking into the pinball issue for me! Chris

    October 4th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
17. Niels said:

    I don´t have windows xp any more.
    Could you send it too me?

    October 5th, 2008 at 4:07 am
18. Kevin said:

    @Niels, Check your email for a link.
    Kevin.

    October 5th, 2008 at 8:34 am
19. WF said:

    Hi I don’t have xp anymore, so could you send it to me please? Thanks a lot.

    October 11th, 2008 at 8:37 am
20. Kevin said:

    @WF, Check your email for the link.
    Kevin.

    October 11th, 2008 at 9:10 am
21. Vince said:

    hi i dont have windows xp anymore…could you send it to my email please?

    October 12th, 2008 at 5:01 am
22. Kevin said:

    @Vincent, Check your Email for the link or visit http://drop.io/VistaRevisited for the file

    October 12th, 2008 at 6:34 am
23. Dee said:

    file please?

    October 12th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
24. Kevin said:

    @Dee, there’s a link to the files you need at the bottom of the article, or you can get it here. http://drop.io/VistaRevisited

    October 12th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
25. Eric said:

    I got it working but The full screen wont work. Can any one help me with this. My Email is Scoreboard44@yahoo.com

    October 18th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
26. Kevin said:

    @ Eric, with the game open hit the F4 key for full screen.

    October 18th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
27. anasztazia said:

    I would love to have the game again…but no xp:( anyone can help???i LOVE pinball!!!!!

    October 19th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
28. jim said:

    @ Everybody, there is a link to the files you need to get pinball working in Vista at the bottom of the article.

    October 19th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
29. Michael said:

    I dont have XP could you email it to me to me please? thanks

    October 23rd, 2008 at 8:48 pm
30. Kevin said:

    Here is the link for the files. http://drop.io/VistaRevisited

    October 23rd, 2008 at 9:58 pm
31. Timmy said:

    You have an outstanding good and well structured site. I enjoyed browsing through it.

    November 2nd, 2008 at 5:20 pm
32. Albert said:

    Very interesting website. Keep up the outstanding work and thank you…

    November 2nd, 2008 at 5:22 pm
33. Melissa said:

    Thank for making this valuable information available to the public.t

    November 3rd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
34. DARRELL said:

    THANKS DUDE.

    November 4th, 2008 at 9:30 am
35. Harald said:

    It works fine. I have downloaded the zip_file from another site though.
    http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=28116

    I have checked the file with Dr. Web before downloading it and afterwards with my virus checker. It is clean.

    But Kevin was the first to point out on how to do it. Thanks a lot!

    November 9th, 2008 at 8:57 am
36. Kevin said:

    I’m glad everyone is enjoying 3D Pinball again.
    Kevin.

    November 9th, 2008 at 9:55 am
37. chris said:

    thanks for the steps, my 4 yr old is chuffed

    November 13th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
38. Carly said:

    Just put pinball onto vista but when i press f4 for full screen the colour goes all weird and doesnt work. how can i sort this??

    November 14th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
39. Kevin said:

    @ Carly, It sound like a video card problem, The first thing you should do is make sure you have the latest video card drivers installed, many times that will fix the problem.

    November 15th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
40. Ben said:

    I no longer have access to Windows XP. Could you send me the files please?

    November 28th, 2008 at 6:34 am
41. Kevin said:

    @ Ben, Just click the link in the post if you need the files.
    Kevin.

    November 28th, 2008 at 9:53 am
42. Ele said:

    Hey Kevin, nice site

    I downloaded pinball and it worked great and then now when i press f4 for full screen it goes to full screen but the actaul game just stays the same size in the middle of the screen.

    I have vista and a 17 inch moniter on my laptop – do I need to change any settings to allow it to play at the right size?

    January 31st, 2009 at 11:16 am
43. Kevin said:

    @ Ele, Sorry I don’t have access to a Vista laptop right now so I can’t check, but you may need to lower your resolution on your screen first. Maybe someone else reading the comments can help.

    Kevin.

    January 31st, 2009 at 12:44 pm
44. Ele said:

    Ok thanks anyway Kevin. I was playing bejewlled after i wrote that message and it did the same thing as pinball. I’ll have a play around and see what i can do

    January 31st, 2009 at 1:13 pm
45. Ele said:

    I got it sorted! For anyone else who has this problem all I did was right click on the blue graphics icon near to the time in the bottom right hand corner, Go along the ‘Graphics Options’ arrow then ‘Panel Fit’ and select Full Screen (No Border) and it works fine, nice and big

    February 1st, 2009 at 9:05 am
46. Kevin said:

    @ Ele, Good find. Thanks.
    Kevin.

    February 1st, 2009 at 9:13 am
47. tiffzcraft said:

    Thank you so much…..I was missing this game badly

    February 8th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
48. Joseph said:

    Thank you SOOOOOO much! You rule, dude!

    February 13th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
49. Jan Malnory said:

    How can I download this game to a Vista Computer.?.

    April 25th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
50. Kevin said:

    @ Jan Malnory, Are the directions above not working.

    Kevin.

    April 26th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
51. Brandon said:

    Could someone send me the files, I also no longer have access to an XP comp. Thanks

    July 8th, 2009 at 12:57 am
52. Kevin said:

    @ Brandon, Just click the RED link in the post it will take you to drop.io so you can download the files you need.

    Kevin.

    July 8th, 2009 at 5:59 am
53. Lindsey said:

    the drop.io file will not allow me to download because it says it’s been downloaded over 1000 times and more downloads aren’t available

    July 8th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
54. Kevin said:

    @ Lindsey, Thanks for letting me know, I’ll get a new host set up as soon as I can.
    Kevin.

    July 8th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
55. Kevin said:

    Here’s a new link to the files
    http://drop.io/Vistapinball

    Kevin.

    July 11th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
56. teedee911 said:

    Oh My God!!!
    YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I’ve been addicted to Pinball 3D for YEARS!

    No more having to “tweak & twitch” on my Vista computer.

    Ahhhhh…..

    Thanks!

    July 17th, 2009 at 2:34 am
57. eric said:

    Thanks dude, that was very helpful!

    July 25th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
58. jetfire88 said:

    hey thanks for the installation instructions…works perfect on my vista home basic now….cheers !

    July 30th, 2009 at 5:53 am
59. Bob said:

    can’t get download to work

    July 31st, 2009 at 10:20 am
60. Olly said:

    I can’t download it from any of the sites mentioned, could someone please send it to me?

    July 31st, 2009 at 4:21 pm
61. Kevin said:

    Ok guys hang on while I find another host.

    July 31st, 2009 at 7:47 pm
62. Kevin said:

    The download should be working again from MediaFire, Here’s the link.

    http://www.mediafire.com/?ymvywizjwtd

    Kevin.

    July 31st, 2009 at 8:22 pm
63. Big S said:

    YEAH!!!! thank you thank you thank you!!!

    August 1st, 2009 at 7:22 pm
64. Soraya said:

    For those getting an error message when they put the Pinball exe file into the games folder on the start menu,
    just right click it and click pin to start menu. Then drag the icon that’s been created in the start menu into the games folder. It basically just creates a shortcut, which is all that is required

    August 3rd, 2009 at 9:05 am
65. philip said:

    I know cheat is when you sse the ball tipe hidden test whth a space
    then right click and you can move the ball

    August 13th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
66. philip said:

    is good

    August 13th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
67. DAVID said:

    IT IS REALY COOL

    August 18th, 2009 at 6:43 am
68. NyeAngel said:

    tyvm!!!

    August 18th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
69. Xeek said:

    The reason it was not included, I think.. whatever contract Microsoft had with Maxis to include this game with Windows must have expired.

    August 18th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
70. Qiana said:

    THANK YOU SOME ONE KNOWS WHAT THEY”RE DOIN I LOVE THIS I AM THE ULTIMATE @ PINBALL NOW I HAVE IT ON MY PERSONAL PC THANX

    August 21st, 2009 at 10:13 pm
71. sarah said:

    i dont have xp anymore. can you send the link to my email please?

    August 23rd, 2009 at 5:30 pm
72. Kevin said:

    @ Sarah, Just use the download link in the article or here.
    http://www.mediafire.com/?ymvywizjwtd

    August 23rd, 2009 at 5:59 pm
73. Chris #3 said:

    @Chris (#1) and Kevin

    I have been having the same problem with Vista not recognizing the wavemix.inf. I have copied it a couple of times and no luck. Have either of you figured out this problem? Thanks Chris #3

    August 29th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
74. Bill said:

    Having the same problem myself. Only way I can get it to run is by right-clicking the exe and choose ‘Run as Administrator’.

    August 30th, 2009 at 12:14 am
75. Bill said:

    Chris#3, follow this guide:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aovYyyrpqtA&feature=related

    It worked for me.

    August 30th, 2009 at 12:34 am
76. David said:

    Hi,

    Regarding Space Cadet, my computer uses XP and somehow, I’ve lost Space Cadet, which is the only game I play.

    Can I download the file directly to my computer?

    Could you send me the direct link to run it from XP.

    Kind regards,

    David

    September 3rd, 2009 at 12:59 am
77. Kevin said:

    @ David, just use the link to download it. http://www.mediafire.com/?ymvywizjwtd

    Kevin

    September 3rd, 2009 at 5:17 am
78. synthia said:

    Hello, I don’t know of anyone that has windows xp. Do you know of anyone that could make me a cd so that I can install the 3D space cadet pinball game? If so, please let me know. Thank-you for your time.

    September 9th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
79. OU812 said:

    Hello synthia is anybody home, If you click the link in the article you can download all the files you need.

    September 9th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
80. marybel said:

    i had pinball on windows xp. LOVED IT! miss it now that i have vista!!!

    so i just followed the instructions here:
    clicked on the link, downloaded the pinball file, pasted it into the vista games folder, and inside the pinball folder, there’s an icon that opens the game, so i just copied that icon (the silver pinball by itself) on the games tab in the start menu.

    simple. back in action!!

    thanks for the game upload!!!

    September 30th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
81. Nicholas said:

    So you got the files, is there a way for you to rip the icon for pinball on windows xp so we can set it ourselves?

    Thanks alot for this, best game for when your internet isn’t working!

    November 13th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
82. Nicholas said:

    Never mind, the screenshot didn’t have the icon but since I downloaded, I realized I saw it had the icon. Thanks so much!

    November 13th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
83. Billy No said:

    i dont have a XP computer

    November 16th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
84. Billy No said:

    never mind i got it:P

    November 16th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
85. Neil Haggart said:

    Hello there – I read your post with interest and a sigh of relief because my son is distraught at not having Pinball on our new PC (Vista operating system).
    There was one post with the same problem, that of the WAVMIX.INF missing. You emailed the required files to Chris around the 2nd November 2008 so can you do the same for me please?
    I have tried the new zip link and I’m still getting the same error message. I’ve also tried the http://drop.io/Vistapinball link but the download limit has been reached.
    Thanks in anticipation of your help. Have bookmarked this site for further use. Neil Haggart

    December 11th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
86. Neil Haggart said:

    ok i got it now

    December 16th, 2009 at 6:14 am
87. JOHN said:

    this site is great

    January 7th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
88. awesomea13 said:

    THX SO MUCH!!! I’ve been trying to get it for a long time and this is the only website that has it!

    January 18th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
89. daniel said:

    i am realy bad with computers i have down loaded the file i can open the file but dont know whot to do from there so to play the game can some one help

    January 23rd, 2010 at 4:03 am
90. chris said:

    I installed it on vista and everything is fine. Except that the highscore resets every time i start the game. Loosing all scores. Any idea?

    February 5th, 2010 at 6:31 pm

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