[Audyssey] PInball classic.
hi who is distributing pinball classic now please? thanks. Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Pinball Classic
Draconis - [ESP Pinball Classic for Windows] http://dracoent.com/Windows/ESPPinballClassic - Original Message - From: Lisa Hayes lhay...@internode.on.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 5:23 AM Subject: [Audyssey] PInball classic. hi who is distributing pinball classic now please? thanks. Lisa Hayes --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] PInball classic.
Draconis Entertainment www.draconisentertainment.com , Sent from my iPad On 13 Oct 2014, at 10:23, Lisa Hayes lhay...@internode.on.net wrote: hi who is distributing pinball classic now please? thanks. Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic?
Hi Thomas, Yeah, it has been at least twenty some years since I have played a real pinball game as well. I liked the older, slower machines with bells etc. The newer ones with digital sounds, digital score boards, multi levels, multi balls etc were just too much for me. Of course the tunnel vision closing in probably didn't help. grin If I ever get to making a pinball game like I have always wanted to do, it will have the old bells and bumper sounds etc. Last night I had fun getting code to return a value of 0 to 20 depending on how much or not I depressed the gas peddle. It just for now then plays the homerh0.wav through homerh20.wav engine sound file. I will cut the stock car sounds a bit later. But it was a fun start. BFN Jim But officer, I was only trying to gain enough speed so I could coast to the nearest gas station. j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic?
Yes, me to i'm having difficulty with the pack man table. Its too fast. -original message- Subject: [Audyssey] Pinball classic? From: lelia struv...@yahoo.com Date: 04/01/2009 9:30 pm Hi all, first I think I made a mistake and posted this to the wrong list at first so even though I can't do anything about that mistake I'm going to ask the same thing here. I just downloaded the demo version of pinball classic from draconis and for one thing, I've never played pinball but I've heard the sounds of others playing. I assumed that the object was to keep the ball from going to far either to the right or left? so when i played the pacman table that's what I tried to do and some how though I'm nto sure how I got like 3 million points? Can someone tell me some tips on how to play pinball? I looked at the manual and it said to use the shift keys for the flippers and that is what I did. Hoping all that made sense. lelia --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic?
Hi Jim, Yeah, there are possibly hundreds of different pinball designs. Though for newbies sake I wanted to give just a basic design for a reference. However, now that you mention it I think it was 5 balls instead of 3 that I use to have at the arcade. It has at least been 20 years or more since I was at a real pinball table. They aren't too easy to find these days. Jim Kitchen wrote: Hi Thomas, That was a great description of a classic pinball table. However almost all of the pinball tables that I played in the sixties, seventies and eighties did also have shoots on the far left and right hand sides. Actually twin shoots. The far left and right shoots the ball if it went down them would end up going down the same hole as if it had come down between your flippers. The shoots just inside those shoots the ball would roll down and roll onto your flippers. If you didn't press the button to flip your flipper the ball would roll off of the flipper and go down the hole. You could also hold your flipper in the up position and the ball might instead of bouncing off of the flipper roll up it and up the shoot. The far right shoot was just inside of the launcher shoot. I'm pretty sure that way back then we would get 5 balls for a quarter. And then there were tables with two or more sets of flippers. And into the eighties there were multi level tables and there could be more than one ball in play at a time. There were also round bumpers and flat sided bumpers with bells as well as targets to hit that would retract when your ball hit them for points. I also liked this one game that had upper shoots. They had spinner gates and buttons up them. So if you used your flipper and sent the ball up them real fast, the spinner gate would spin and spin racking up points and the further the ball went up the shoot the more buttons it would hit and give you more points. You could send the ball up so hard that it would come out of the shoot at the top of the table and be as if you had sent it up the launcher shoot. There were also little holes that your ball could land in, get spun and shoot out in any direction. This one table just had a rubber pad in the center of the table that would change the direction of your ball. There was just an endless variety of different pinball table configurations. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic?
Hi Thomas, That was a great description of a classic pinball table. However almost all of the pinball tables that I played in the sixties, seventies and eighties did also have shoots on the far left and right hand sides. Actually twin shoots. The far left and right shoots the ball if it went down them would end up going down the same hole as if it had come down between your flippers. The shoots just inside those shoots the ball would roll down and roll onto your flippers. If you didn't press the button to flip your flipper the ball would roll off of the flipper and go down the hole. You could also hold your flipper in the up position and the ball might instead of bouncing off of the flipper roll up it and up the shoot. The far right shoot was just inside of the launcher shoot. I'm pretty sure that way back then we would get 5 balls for a quarter. And then there were tables with two or more sets of flippers. And into the eighties there were multi level tables and there could be more than one ball in play at a time. There were also round bumpers and flat sided bumpers with bells as well as targets to hit that would retract when your ball hit them for points. I also liked this one game that had upper shoots. They had spinner gates and buttons up them. So if you used your flipper and sent the ball up them real fast, the spinner gate would spin and spin racking up points and the further the ball went up the shoot the more buttons it would hit and give you more points. You could send the ball up so hard that it would come out of the shoot at the top of the table and be as if you had sent it up the launcher shoot. There were also little holes that your ball could land in, get spun and shoot out in any direction. This one table just had a rubber pad in the center of the table that would change the direction of your ball. There was just an endless variety of different pinball table configurations. - Original Message - Hi Lelia, Actually, pinball is all about trying to position the ball so you can hit various bumpers with scores marked on them. Every bumper you hit has a specific score that adds to your total score. I'm assuming here you have been blind from birth so have never actually seen a pinball table. So i'll try to describe it in detail below. A classic pinball table is a long retangle two maybe three feet long with a glass top on it which you can look into the machine. On the far right hand side is a long narrow chamber with a pully thingy on it where you launch the balls from. In the center of the table is various bumbers standing up with all kinds of scores on them. The harder a bumper is to hit with the ball the higher the score marked on it. Similarly the easiest ones to hit with the ball have low scores marked on them. At the bottom of the table where you are sitting are two buttons on the table top that move the flippers. There are two flippers that guard a hole into wich your ball can get bounced causing you to lose a ball. These flippers serve two purposes. Besides defending the hole where your ball can get bounced into you can use them to direct the ball towards the bumpers thus racking up your score. How you play the game is you start by launching the ball from the launcher on the right-hand side of the pinball table. At the beginning of every pinball game you are given atotal of three balls to start with. Though, only one ball at a tme can be in play at any given time. You use the flippers to guard the hole as well as bounce the ball into the bumpers on the table. Depending on the angle and how hard the flipper hits the ball you will hopefully send the ball towards one of the bumpers on the table. When you miss a ball and it falls into the hole at the end of the table you lose a ball. The object of the game is to get the highest score possible. Now, like classic pinball machines games like PBC allows you to play at various specially themed pinball tables. You can pick tables like Pacman, Haunted House, the Wild West, etc. Jim Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall. j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic?
Can I ask, how did spell switches appear? As letters flashing or is this just something Draconis invented? -- Chris Hallsworth E-mail: christopherhallswort...@googlemail.com MSN: ch9...@hotmail.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 - Original Message - From: Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net To: Thomas Ward Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic? Hi Thomas, That was a great description of a classic pinball table. However almost all of the pinball tables that I played in the sixties, seventies and eighties did also have shoots on the far left and right hand sides. Actually twin shoots. The far left and right shoots the ball if it went down them would end up going down the same hole as if it had come down between your flippers. The shoots just inside those shoots the ball would roll down and roll onto your flippers. If you didn't press the button to flip your flipper the ball would roll off of the flipper and go down the hole. You could also hold your flipper in the up position and the ball might instead of bouncing off of the flipper roll up it and up the shoot. The far right shoot was just inside of the launcher shoot. I'm pretty sure that way back then we would get 5 balls for a quarter. And then there were tables with two or more sets of flippers. And into the eighties there were multi level tables and there could be more than one ball in play at a time. There were also round bumpers and flat sided bumpers with bells as well as targets to hit that would retract when your ball hit them for points. I also liked this one game that had upper shoots. They had spinner gates and buttons up them. So if you used your flipper and sent the ball up them real fast, the spinner gate would spin and spin racking up points and the further the ball went up the shoot the more buttons it would hit and give you more points. You could send the ball up so hard that it would come out of the shoot at the top of the table and be as if you had sent it up the launcher shoot. There were also little holes that your ball could land in, get spun and shoot out in any direction. This one table just had a rubber pad in the center of the table that would change the direction of your ball. There was just an endless variety of different pinball table configurations. - Original Message - Hi Lelia, Actually, pinball is all about trying to position the ball so you can hit various bumpers with scores marked on them. Every bumper you hit has a specific score that adds to your total score. I'm assuming here you have been blind from birth so have never actually seen a pinball table. So i'll try to describe it in detail below. A classic pinball table is a long retangle two maybe three feet long with a glass top on it which you can look into the machine. On the far right hand side is a long narrow chamber with a pully thingy on it where you launch the balls from. In the center of the table is various bumbers standing up with all kinds of scores on them. The harder a bumper is to hit with the ball the higher the score marked on it. Similarly the easiest ones to hit with the ball have low scores marked on them. At the bottom of the table where you are sitting are two buttons on the table top that move the flippers. There are two flippers that guard a hole into wich your ball can get bounced causing you to lose a ball. These flippers serve two purposes. Besides defending the hole where your ball can get bounced into you can use them to direct the ball towards the bumpers thus racking up your score. How you play the game is you start by launching the ball from the launcher on the right-hand side of the pinball table. At the beginning of every pinball game you are given atotal of three balls to start with. Though, only one ball at a tme can be in play at any given time. You use the flippers to guard the hole as well as bounce the ball into the bumpers on the table. Depending on the angle and how hard the flipper hits the ball you will hopefully send the ball towards one of the bumpers on the table. When you miss a ball and it falls into the hole at the end of the table you lose a ball. The object of the game is to get the highest score possible. Now, like classic pinball machines games like PBC allows you to play at various specially themed pinball tables. You can pick tables like Pacman, Haunted House, the Wild West, etc. Jim Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall. j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam
Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic?
I suspect that's just something Draconis invented. - Original Message - From: Chris Hallsworth christopherhallswort...@googlemail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic? Can I ask, how did spell switches appear? As letters flashing or is this just something Draconis invented? -- Chris Hallsworth E-mail: christopherhallswort...@googlemail.com MSN: ch9...@hotmail.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 - Original Message - From: Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net To: Thomas Ward Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic? Hi Thomas, That was a great description of a classic pinball table. However almost all of the pinball tables that I played in the sixties, seventies and eighties did also have shoots on the far left and right hand sides. Actually twin shoots. The far left and right shoots the ball if it went down them would end up going down the same hole as if it had come down between your flippers. The shoots just inside those shoots the ball would roll down and roll onto your flippers. If you didn't press the button to flip your flipper the ball would roll off of the flipper and go down the hole. You could also hold your flipper in the up position and the ball might instead of bouncing off of the flipper roll up it and up the shoot. The far right shoot was just inside of the launcher shoot. I'm pretty sure that way back then we would get 5 balls for a quarter. And then there were tables with two or more sets of flippers. And into the eighties there were multi level tables and there could be more than one ball in play at a time. There were also round bumpers and flat sided bumpers with bells as well as targets to hit that would retract when your ball hit them for points. I also liked this one game that had upper shoots. They had spinner gates and buttons up them. So if you used your flipper and sent the ball up them real fast, the spinner gate would spin and spin racking up points and the further the ball went up the shoot the more buttons it would hit and give you more points. You could send the ball up so hard that it would come out of the shoot at the top of the table and be as if you had sent it up the launcher shoot. There were also little holes that your ball could land in, get spun and shoot out in any direction. This one table just had a rubber pad in the center of the table that would change the direction of your ball. There was just an endless variety of different pinball table configurations. - Original Message - Hi Lelia, Actually, pinball is all about trying to position the ball so you can hit various bumpers with scores marked on them. Every bumper you hit has a specific score that adds to your total score. I'm assuming here you have been blind from birth so have never actually seen a pinball table. So i'll try to describe it in detail below. A classic pinball table is a long retangle two maybe three feet long with a glass top on it which you can look into the machine. On the far right hand side is a long narrow chamber with a pully thingy on it where you launch the balls from. In the center of the table is various bumbers standing up with all kinds of scores on them. The harder a bumper is to hit with the ball the higher the score marked on it. Similarly the easiest ones to hit with the ball have low scores marked on them. At the bottom of the table where you are sitting are two buttons on the table top that move the flippers. There are two flippers that guard a hole into wich your ball can get bounced causing you to lose a ball. These flippers serve two purposes. Besides defending the hole where your ball can get bounced into you can use them to direct the ball towards the bumpers thus racking up your score. How you play the game is you start by launching the ball from the launcher on the right-hand side of the pinball table. At the beginning of every pinball game you are given atotal of three balls to start with. Though, only one ball at a tme can be in play at any given time. You use the flippers to guard the hole as well as bounce the ball into the bumpers on the table. Depending on the angle and how hard the flipper hits the ball you will hopefully send the ball towards one of the bumpers on the table. When you miss a ball and it falls into the hole at the end of the table you lose a ball. The object of the game is to get the highest score possible. Now, like classic pinball machines games like PBC allows you to play at various specially themed pinball tables. You can pick tables like Pacman, Haunted House, the Wild West, etc. Jim Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall. j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave
Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic?
Cool, I thought so as sighted people's never heard of spell switches. -- Chris Hallsworth E-mail: christopherhallswort...@googlemail.com MSN: ch9...@hotmail.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson b-peter...@hotmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic? I suspect that's just something Draconis invented. - Original Message - From: Chris Hallsworth christopherhallswort...@googlemail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic? Can I ask, how did spell switches appear? As letters flashing or is this just something Draconis invented? -- Chris Hallsworth E-mail: christopherhallswort...@googlemail.com MSN: ch9...@hotmail.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 - Original Message - From: Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net To: Thomas Ward Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic? Hi Thomas, That was a great description of a classic pinball table. However almost all of the pinball tables that I played in the sixties, seventies and eighties did also have shoots on the far left and right hand sides. Actually twin shoots. The far left and right shoots the ball if it went down them would end up going down the same hole as if it had come down between your flippers. The shoots just inside those shoots the ball would roll down and roll onto your flippers. If you didn't press the button to flip your flipper the ball would roll off of the flipper and go down the hole. You could also hold your flipper in the up position and the ball might instead of bouncing off of the flipper roll up it and up the shoot. The far right shoot was just inside of the launcher shoot. I'm pretty sure that way back then we would get 5 balls for a quarter. And then there were tables with two or more sets of flippers. And into the eighties there were multi level tables and there could be more than one ball in play at a time. There were also round bumpers and flat sided bumpers with bells as well as targets to hit that would retract when your ball hit them for points. I also liked this one game that had upper shoots. They had spinner gates and buttons up them. So if you used your flipper and sent the ball up them real fast, the spinner gate would spin and spin racking up points and the further the ball went up the shoot the more buttons it would hit and give you more points. You could send the ball up so hard that it would come out of the shoot at the top of the table and be as if you had sent it up the launcher shoot. There were also little holes that your ball could land in, get spun and shoot out in any direction. This one table just had a rubber pad in the center of the table that would change the direction of your ball. There was just an endless variety of different pinball table configurations. - Original Message - Hi Lelia, Actually, pinball is all about trying to position the ball so you can hit various bumpers with scores marked on them. Every bumper you hit has a specific score that adds to your total score. I'm assuming here you have been blind from birth so have never actually seen a pinball table. So i'll try to describe it in detail below. A classic pinball table is a long retangle two maybe three feet long with a glass top on it which you can look into the machine. On the far right hand side is a long narrow chamber with a pully thingy on it where you launch the balls from. In the center of the table is various bumbers standing up with all kinds of scores on them. The harder a bumper is to hit with the ball the higher the score marked on it. Similarly the easiest ones to hit with the ball have low scores marked on them. At the bottom of the table where you are sitting are two buttons on the table top that move the flippers. There are two flippers that guard a hole into wich your ball can get bounced causing you to lose a ball. These flippers serve two purposes. Besides defending the hole where your ball can get bounced into you can use them to direct the ball towards the bumpers thus racking up your score. How you play the game is you start by launching the ball from the launcher on the right-hand side of the pinball table. At the beginning of every pinball game you are given atotal of three balls to start with. Though, only one ball at a tme can be in play at any given time. You use the flippers to guard the hole as well as bounce the ball into the bumpers on the table. Depending on the angle and how hard the flipper hits the ball you will hopefully send the ball towards one of the bumpers on the table. When you miss a ball and it falls into the hole at the end of the table you lose a ball. The object of the game is to get the highest score possible. Now, like
Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic?
Actually, spell and number switches were fairly common in graphical pinball games such as pinball dreams and pinball fantasies for the Amigar, not to mention of course Sonic spinball on the Mega drive (easily my favourite pinball game ever!). Not that it matters though, obviously a computer either using audio or graphics is able to do a lot more, and a lot more easily than an actual mechanical phinball table. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Chris Hallsworth christopherhallswort...@googlemail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 10:44 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic? Cool, I thought so as sighted people's never heard of spell switches. -- Chris Hallsworth E-mail: christopherhallswort...@googlemail.com MSN: ch9...@hotmail.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson b-peter...@hotmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic? I suspect that's just something Draconis invented. - Original Message - From: Chris Hallsworth christopherhallswort...@googlemail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic? Can I ask, how did spell switches appear? As letters flashing or is this just something Draconis invented? -- Chris Hallsworth E-mail: christopherhallswort...@googlemail.com MSN: ch9...@hotmail.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 - Original Message - From: Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net To: Thomas Ward Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic? Hi Thomas, That was a great description of a classic pinball table. However almost all of the pinball tables that I played in the sixties, seventies and eighties did also have shoots on the far left and right hand sides. Actually twin shoots. The far left and right shoots the ball if it went down them would end up going down the same hole as if it had come down between your flippers. The shoots just inside those shoots the ball would roll down and roll onto your flippers. If you didn't press the button to flip your flipper the ball would roll off of the flipper and go down the hole. You could also hold your flipper in the up position and the ball might instead of bouncing off of the flipper roll up it and up the shoot. The far right shoot was just inside of the launcher shoot. I'm pretty sure that way back then we would get 5 balls for a quarter. And then there were tables with two or more sets of flippers. And into the eighties there were multi level tables and there could be more than one ball in play at a time. There were also round bumpers and flat sided bumpers with bells as well as targets to hit that would retract when your ball hit them for points. I also liked this one game that had upper shoots. They had spinner gates and buttons up them. So if you used your flipper and sent the ball up them real fast, the spinner gate would spin and spin racking up points and the further the ball went up the shoot the more buttons it would hit and give you more points. You could send the ball up so hard that it would come out of the shoot at the top of the table and be as if you had sent it up the launcher shoot. There were also little holes that your ball could land in, get spun and shoot out in any direction. This one table just had a rubber pad in the center of the table that would change the direction of your ball. There was just an endless variety of different pinball table configurations. - Original Message - Hi Lelia, Actually, pinball is all about trying to position the ball so you can hit various bumpers with scores marked on them. Every bumper you hit has a specific score that adds to your total score. I'm assuming here you have been blind from birth so have never actually seen a pinball table. So i'll try to describe it in detail below. A classic pinball table is a long retangle two maybe three feet long with a glass top on it which you can look into the machine. On the far right hand side is a long narrow chamber with a pully thingy on it where you launch the balls from. In the center of the table is various bumbers standing up with all kinds of scores on them. The harder a bumper is to hit with the ball the higher the score marked on it. Similarly the easiest ones to hit with the ball have low scores marked on them. At the bottom of the table where you are sitting are two buttons on the table top that move the flippers. There are two flippers that guard a hole into wich your ball can get bounced causing you to lose a ball. These flippers serve two purposes. Besides defending the hole where your ball can get bounced into you can use them to direct the ball towards the bumpers thus racking up your score
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I wonder, what spell and number switches did they use? Maybe Draconis could use number switches in their future titles? -- Chris Hallsworth E-mail: christopherhallswort...@googlemail.com MSN: ch9...@hotmail.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 10:53 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic? Actually, spell and number switches were fairly common in graphical pinball games such as pinball dreams and pinball fantasies for the Amigar, not to mention of course Sonic spinball on the Mega drive (easily my favourite pinball game ever!). Not that it matters though, obviously a computer either using audio or graphics is able to do a lot more, and a lot more easily than an actual mechanical phinball table. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Chris Hallsworth christopherhallswort...@googlemail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 10:44 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic? Cool, I thought so as sighted people's never heard of spell switches. -- Chris Hallsworth E-mail: christopherhallswort...@googlemail.com MSN: ch9...@hotmail.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson b-peter...@hotmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic? I suspect that's just something Draconis invented. - Original Message - From: Chris Hallsworth christopherhallswort...@googlemail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic? Can I ask, how did spell switches appear? As letters flashing or is this just something Draconis invented? -- Chris Hallsworth E-mail: christopherhallswort...@googlemail.com MSN: ch9...@hotmail.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 - Original Message - From: Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net To: Thomas Ward Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic? Hi Thomas, That was a great description of a classic pinball table. However almost all of the pinball tables that I played in the sixties, seventies and eighties did also have shoots on the far left and right hand sides. Actually twin shoots. The far left and right shoots the ball if it went down them would end up going down the same hole as if it had come down between your flippers. The shoots just inside those shoots the ball would roll down and roll onto your flippers. If you didn't press the button to flip your flipper the ball would roll off of the flipper and go down the hole. You could also hold your flipper in the up position and the ball might instead of bouncing off of the flipper roll up it and up the shoot. The far right shoot was just inside of the launcher shoot. I'm pretty sure that way back then we would get 5 balls for a quarter. And then there were tables with two or more sets of flippers. And into the eighties there were multi level tables and there could be more than one ball in play at a time. There were also round bumpers and flat sided bumpers with bells as well as targets to hit that would retract when your ball hit them for points. I also liked this one game that had upper shoots. They had spinner gates and buttons up them. So if you used your flipper and sent the ball up them real fast, the spinner gate would spin and spin racking up points and the further the ball went up the shoot the more buttons it would hit and give you more points. You could send the ball up so hard that it would come out of the shoot at the top of the table and be as if you had sent it up the launcher shoot. There were also little holes that your ball could land in, get spun and shoot out in any direction. This one table just had a rubber pad in the center of the table that would change the direction of your ball. There was just an endless variety of different pinball table configurations. - Original Message - Hi Lelia, Actually, pinball is all about trying to position the ball so you can hit various bumpers with scores marked on them. Every bumper you hit has a specific score that adds to your total score. I'm assuming here you have been blind from birth so have never actually seen a pinball table. So i'll try to describe it in detail below. A classic pinball table is a long retangle two maybe three feet long with a glass top on it which you can look into the machine. On the far right hand side is a long narrow chamber with a pully thingy on it where you launch the balls from. In the center of the table is various bumbers standing up with all kinds of scores on them. The harder a bumper is to hit with the ball the higher the score marked on it. Similarly the easiest ones to hit with the ball have
Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic?
Well, spell switches wise, it was very much the same way that the tables in Esp pinball extreme work (not sure about Classic sinse I've only tried the demo). For instance on a haunted house themed table entitled Stones -n- bones, spelling the word death would make skulls appear around the table which you could crack open for extra points, and r-i-p would bring up litle tomb stone barriers which blocked some of the nastier drains for a while. Number switches as I remembered tended to either count up or down to some special event. In sonic spinball for example, there was a gate which would only open when you hit a counter down to zero, the counter which started at 3. I'll say that pinball Extreme is one of my favourite arcade style audio games ever created, owing to the massive ambience, fairly realistic gameplay and quirky minigames. I'd actually say imho pinball is improved by being audio, sinse the necessary sound limit on what's going on and the need to focus on the pinball as it rolls around the table gives a much better sense of both exploration and danger than for instance seeing a wide view of the table (in some graphical pinball games even the hole table), and just watching your ball roll around it. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Chris, James North came up with the idea for spell switches. To my knowledge the ESP line of Pinball games are the only ones that use anything like it. I've never seen it on a real pinball machine, and not on any other PC pinball game. Hth. Chris Hallsworth wrote: Can I ask, how did spell switches appear? As letters flashing or is this just something Draconis invented? -- Chris Hallsworth E-mail: christopherhallswort...@googlemail.com MSN: ch9...@hotmail.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] Pinball classic?
Hi all, first I think I made a mistake and posted this to the wrong list at first so even though I can't do anything about that mistake I'm going to ask the same thing here. I just downloaded the demo version of pinball classic from draconis and for one thing, I've never played pinball but I've heard the sounds of others playing. I assumed that the object was to keep the ball from going to far either to the right or left? so when i played the pacman table that's what I tried to do and some how though I'm nto sure how I got like 3 million points? Can someone tell me some tips on how to play pinball? I looked at the manual and it said to use the shift keys for the flippers and that is what I did. Hoping all that made sense. lelia --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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The point of the original pinball and in all remakes since that I've seen is to actually keep the ball from going down the whole between the two flippers. - Original Message - From: lelia struv...@yahoo.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 11:30 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Pinball classic? Hi all, first I think I made a mistake and posted this to the wrong list at first so even though I can't do anything about that mistake I'm going to ask the same thing here. I just downloaded the demo version of pinball classic from draconis and for one thing, I've never played pinball but I've heard the sounds of others playing. I assumed that the object was to keep the ball from going to far either to the right or left? so when i played the pacman table that's what I tried to do and some how though I'm nto sure how I got like 3 million points? Can someone tell me some tips on how to play pinball? I looked at the manual and it said to use the shift keys for the flippers and that is what I did. Hoping all that made sense. lelia --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Lelia, Actually, pinball is all about trying to position the ball so you can hit various bumpers with scores marked on them. Every bumper you hit has a specific score that adds to your total score. I'm assuming here you have been blind from birth so have never actually seen a pinball table. So i'll try to describe it in detail below. A classic pinball table is a long retangle two maybe three feet long with a glass top on it which you can look into the machine. On the far right hand side is a long narrow chamber with a pully thingy on it where you launch the balls from. In the center of the table is various bumbers standing up with all kinds of scores on them. The harder a bumper is to hit with the ball the higher the score marked on it. Similarly the easiest ones to hit with the ball have low scores marked on them. At the bottom of the table where you are sitting are two buttons on the table top that move the flippers. There are two flippers that guard a hole into wich your ball can get bounced causing you to lose a ball. These flippers serve two purposes. Besides defending the hole where your ball can get bounced into you can use them to direct the ball towards the bumpers thus racking up your score. How you play the game is you start by launching the ball from the launcher on the right-hand side of the pinball table. At the beginning of every pinball game you are given atotal of three balls to start with. Though, only one ball at a tme can be in play at any given time. You use the flippers to guard the hole as well as bounce the ball into the bumpers on the table. Depending on the angle and how hard the flipper hits the ball you will hopefully send the ball towards one of the bumpers on the table. When you miss a ball and it falls into the hole at the end of the table you lose a ball. The object of the game is to get the highest score possible. Now, like classic pinball machines games like PBC allows you to play at various specially themed pinball tables. You can pick tables like Pacman, Haunted House, the Wild West, etc. lelia wrote: Hi all, first I think I made a mistake and posted this to the wrong list at first so even though I can't do anything about that mistake I'm going to ask the same thing here. I just downloaded the demo version of pinball classic from draconis and for one thing, I've never played pinball but I've heard the sounds of others playing. I assumed that the object was to keep the ball from going to far either to the right or left? so when i played the pacman table that's what I tried to do and some how though I'm nto sure how I got like 3 million points? Can someone tell me some tips on how to play pinball? I looked at the manual and it said to use the shift keys for the flippers and that is what I did. Hoping all that made sense. lelia --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Right. Forgot about the bumpers. Sorry. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Pinball classic? Hi Lelia, Actually, pinball is all about trying to position the ball so you can hit various bumpers with scores marked on them. Every bumper you hit has a specific score that adds to your total score. I'm assuming here you have been blind from birth so have never actually seen a pinball table. So i'll try to describe it in detail below. A classic pinball table is a long retangle two maybe three feet long with a glass top on it which you can look into the machine. On the far right hand side is a long narrow chamber with a pully thingy on it where you launch the balls from. In the center of the table is various bumbers standing up with all kinds of scores on them. The harder a bumper is to hit with the ball the higher the score marked on it. Similarly the easiest ones to hit with the ball have low scores marked on them. At the bottom of the table where you are sitting are two buttons on the table top that move the flippers. There are two flippers that guard a hole into wich your ball can get bounced causing you to lose a ball. These flippers serve two purposes. Besides defending the hole where your ball can get bounced into you can use them to direct the ball towards the bumpers thus racking up your score. How you play the game is you start by launching the ball from the launcher on the right-hand side of the pinball table. At the beginning of every pinball game you are given atotal of three balls to start with. Though, only one ball at a tme can be in play at any given time. You use the flippers to guard the hole as well as bounce the ball into the bumpers on the table. Depending on the angle and how hard the flipper hits the ball you will hopefully send the ball towards one of the bumpers on the table. When you miss a ball and it falls into the hole at the end of the table you lose a ball. The object of the game is to get the highest score possible. Now, like classic pinball machines games like PBC allows you to play at various specially themed pinball tables. You can pick tables like Pacman, Haunted House, the Wild West, etc. lelia wrote: Hi all, first I think I made a mistake and posted this to the wrong list at first so even though I can't do anything about that mistake I'm going to ask the same thing here. I just downloaded the demo version of pinball classic from draconis and for one thing, I've never played pinball but I've heard the sounds of others playing. I assumed that the object was to keep the ball from going to far either to the right or left? so when i played the pacman table that's what I tried to do and some how though I'm nto sure how I got like 3 million points? Can someone tell me some tips on how to play pinball? I looked at the manual and it said to use the shift keys for the flippers and that is what I did. Hoping all that made sense. lelia --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] pinball classic opinion
He meant ESP pinball clasic. Right? Fell free to corect me if I'm wrong. - Original Message - From: Charles Rivard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 9:30 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] pinball classic opinion What?? You ran that all together, making it unclear. - Original Message - From: Joseph Weakland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: blind gamers list Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 8:23 PM Subject: [Audyssey] pinball classic opinion i'd play esp pinball classic more than I do now if it had the ability to post scores:) i hope it does soon:) joseph weakland email/msn messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (all outgoing email scanned by avast) - Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates. ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web. ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web. ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
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Um how can you miss what he said? He was asking for the ability to post scores for ESP pinball classic. - Original Message - From: Charles Rivard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 11:30 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] pinball classic opinion What?? You ran that all together, making it unclear. - Original Message - From: Joseph Weakland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: blind gamers list Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 8:23 PM Subject: [Audyssey] pinball classic opinion i'd play esp pinball classic more than I do now if it had the ability to post scores:) i hope it does soon:) joseph weakland email/msn messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (all outgoing email scanned by avast) - Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates. ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web. ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web. ___ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
