3d Pinball Space Cadet

I see this game is no longer included with Windows. (I have Vista Home
Premium.) Will this game work under Vista? If so, where can I download it?
If this won't work with Vista, does Microsoft have anything similar I can
download?

"Jezzie" <Jezzie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I see this game is no longer included with Windows. (I have Vista Home
> Premium.) Will this game work under Vista? If so, where can I download
> it?
> If this won't work with Vista, does Microsoft have anything similar I can
> download?

It is not for download, but you can copy the entire directory from Windows
XP to your program directory on your Vista partition.


Wayne

Actually, someone posted what the name of the full game is. Thought they
said they bought it for like 5.99 or something. Might try a Google search if
you're that interested


"Wayne Wastier" <hww1955@msn.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Jezzie" <Jezzie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:964F6C57-2C34-4495-86E0-C542F938413D@microsoft.com...
>>I see this game is no longer included with Windows. (I have Vista Home
>> Premium.) Will this game work under Vista? If so, where can I download
>> it?
>> If this won't work with Vista, does Microsoft have anything similar I can
>> download?
>
> It is not for download, but you can copy the entire directory from Windows
> XP to your program directory on your Vista partition.
>
>
> Wayne
>

Could you explain how to copy from the XP program directory onto the Vista
partition
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ian h


"Wayne Wastier" wrote:

>
> "Jezzie" <Jezzie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:964F6C57-2C34-4495-86E0-C542F938413D@microsoft.com...
> >I see this game is no longer included with Windows. (I have Vista Home
> > Premium.) Will this game work under Vista? If so, where can I download
> > it?
> > If this won't work with Vista, does Microsoft have anything similar I can
> > download?
>
> It is not for download, but you can copy the entire directory from Windows
> XP to your program directory on your Vista partition.
>
>
> Wayne
>
>
>

space cadet is on download.com. look for 3d pinball than search for full
tilt! windows 95 demo. i run vista home premium and it runs ok.


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markdauvid

it took me quite a long time to find the info about space cadet being
called full tilt. i hope this information is helpful to all those
lovers of space cadet besides me.

markdauvid


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markdauvid

OK HERE IS THE REAL TRUTH. LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE SAYING THAT SPACE CADET IS
NOT AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD. AT THIS TIME THAT IS SORT OF TRUE. A DEMO
VERSION IS AVAILABLE. IT IS CALLED FULL TILT. LOOK UP 3D PINBALL. YOU
ONLY GET ONE BALL. HOWEVER SOME MONTHS BACK WITH EXTENSIVE SEARCH AND I
WISH I SAVED THE PAGE. IT WAS A MICROSOFT PAGE AND DOWNLOADED SPACE
CADET FOR VISTA FINAL EDITION. MIRACLE OF MIRACLES I SAVED THE DOWNLOAD
FILE. UNLIKE FULL TILT IT IS THE FULL VERSION THAT WAS AVAILABLE IN XP
AND I DID GET IT FROM MICROSOFT AND I CHECKED EXTENSIVELY AND IT IS NO
LONGER AVAILABLE. THERE IS ONE QUESTION I HAVE. THERE WAS A DEMO PINBALL
GAME FROM MICROSOFT. IT HAD GREAT SOUND AND GREAT EFFECTS. ITS CALLED
MICROSOFT PINBALL ARCADE. I KNOW IT WORKS ON XP. BUT WITH VISTA IT SAYS
IT CANT FIND DIRECTX 5. IT DOESNT RECOGNIZE DIRECTX 10. ANY WORKAROUNDS.


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markdauvid

I FORGOT TO MENTION FULL TILT IS AT DOWNLOAD.COM:O.


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markdauvid

i found the holy grail
22tech.blogspot.com/2008/01/pinball-in-vista.html
this will take you to the zip file for space cadet.


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markdauvid

markdauvid <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in
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> I KNOW IT WORKS ON XP. BUT WITH VISTA IT SAYS
> IT CANT FIND DIRECTX 5. IT DOESNT RECOGNIZE DIRECTX 10. ANY
> WORKAROUNDS.

Well I haven't tried this with DirectX 5, but I have a DirectX 3 game
running in Vista.

If you run the DXWEBSETUP.EXE installer
(http://www.microsoft.com/directx is where you get it from) it'll update
your DirectX files. If all your DirectX files are up to date, you should
be able to run DirectX 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 10.1 games.

Basically DirectX 10.1 is backwards compatible with all previous
DirectXs.

That is, it SHOULD be. I have NO idea if Microsoft has dropped
compatibility for older DirectX versions, but I see no reason why they
would at this time. The files should be there, assuming the game can
find them then it should work.

If it does not, most game CDs come with a DirectX folder on the CD which
usually contains a bunch of CAB files with all the DirectX files for
that game, extract the files (7zip usually can pull files out of CABs if
they aren't encrypted) to your game folder (not your system32 folder),
and try the game again.

Problem is Vista might not like old Windows .DLLs and could freak out.

I'm just guessing here, I've never tried this, but if you are really
desperate to get this going let me know, you'll have to send me a copy
of the game (piracy HO!) or something so I can check it out. I assume
someone may have another suggestion in a moment (ain't the Interweb
great?)

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-A.

markdauvid <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in
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> i found the holy grail
> 22tech.blogspot.com/2008/01/pinball-in-vista.html
> this will take you to the zip file for space cadet.

When you get tired of Space Cadet...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Pinball - my alltime favorite non-pinball,
pinball game. (Unfortunatly Empire's website seems down, but you can still
find these games on Amazon or at Best Buy)

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-A.

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'22nd Century Technology: Pinball in Vista!'
(http://22tech.blogspot.com/2008/01/p...-in-vista.html)


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markdauvid

Hey guys - any news on this game being more easily available? My son's
just discovered it at school and loves it. Am not great at IT so an easy
solution would be great!!! PS my anti virus software is warning me
about downloading the game as suggested - do any of you usually do this
with no problems? Thanks


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Emmie

Oh this is too complicated for my poor brain - my son's just found space
cadet at school and loves it - why can't we just get it easily without
any stress - aghhhhh!!!


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Emmie

it isn't that difficult. you just open the attachment and look for
application. click on that and follow what it tells you to do which is
extract files. it will unpack to another list of files. look for the
black ball click on it.


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markdauvid