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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on Migrate 3D Pinball for Windows Space Cadet from XP to Windows 7 ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[The rest of the Help files]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When I launched the Help, there were some open blocks where some graphics were supposed to be.  I compared the Help on my Win 7 machine to that of XP and found there were 2 graphics missing. I cracked open the pinball.chm archive and pulled out a couple of the HTM file. Reviewing the code revealed that the graphics are stored in other chm files, and there are css files that the help uses too.  If you want the graphics and style sheets for your pinball help, then also grab these chm files:ntart.chmntdef.chmntshared.chm]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[GSCOTTJ]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:22:53 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[If anyone is interested...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[...I discovered that the Windows 95 version of 3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet came with a Readme.doc file from Cinematronics that contains a very comprehensive set of instructions for playing the game. It essentially contains the same information found in the Pinball Help file (pinball.chm) but without all the frustration of the dead links. If you'd like to have a copy, post comment here and if there is enough interest, I can make it available for download.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Shultz]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 22:09:23 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How about Hover Craft?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I loved that mindless game, never could see the point of it but I loved it anyway. I am going to suppose that many of the older games can be ported over like pinball. I tried the MS Bowling game (I believe that it was called WinBowl) on Windows 7 and it didn't work very well.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[wright9999]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 09:03:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pinball without XP]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You can also download Pinball from the Web,  have to try some google searches, first ones do not always work out.  Done it myself, but forget the exact website.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[crip720]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 14:11:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[3D Pinball for Windows]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I wanted to thank you for your post. I am still running windows xp pro but had lost all of the pinball files. Thanks to this post I was able to reinstall all of the pinball files. It is back up and running again...Thank You. Just to add, I am able to run the game in Full Screen and it works fine.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[diddleupdrs@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 10:26:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[XP Mode]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Did you try Windows XP Mode in Windows 7?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Shultz]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 07:33:12 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fun]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Still a lot of fun to play this game. So is Hover! that stunned us with its great graphics in Windows 95. Looking back, we were easily pleased back then.This guide is great, but it's also good to know that both these games can be run directly from your USB flash drive.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[wimrijksen@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 03:15:39 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Great Add-on for Win 7]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thanks Greg, I've missed the game. And after playing several rounds, I appear  to  need some more practice!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tiger-Pa]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 11:35:23 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pinball]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I couldn't do it the way you suggested.  Kept getting error messages.  copied the files from xp to the flash drive.  Expanded in situ and then deleted the unexpanded files via 'Erase *.??_'That worked, but I had to fix the comparability issue.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[register2@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 20:35:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lovely Idea!   ..I was hoping though on some ideas about virtualisation]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thanks for that Greg, I'll give it a whirl, I do miss that game!  However there are a number of other games that I used wot play around with from Windows XP, and even 3.1:- Lords of Conquest, a discontinued, late 70's old XT platform game from EA- Warlords 2, 3 &amp; 4 from UbiSoft that are fun to run, but tempermental   ...be nice to have it quarantined in it's own space like a virtualised app rather than an OS.- Gods from the Bitmap Brothers- Castles II from InterplayI also use a couple of laptops for training deliver so that I have Office 2007 and 2010 available (they don't like co-existing and I'm not sure about partitioning a laptop - what do do with the recovery partition etc).So, I've tried Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 (yuk) and used Parallels 4 for Windows for a while (OK, but cranky with external displays).  I looked at VMWare on the net and am intimidated by all the blurb and techie stuff - I couldn't find a simple Idiot's guide.The latest goss is that VMWare Workstation 2012 is a good and easy fix, and the new Parallels 6 for WIndows looks promising. But before I leap into this, I need to get a handle on how to run software built for old processors on new technology and how to build ISO images to turn into Virtual Machines, and maybe mixing that with partitioning and somehow saving the factory restore partition for when I ditch the machine.  Oh, yes.  I chop and change machines a lot, so I want portability! Um,.........help?? Please!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mark@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 19:06:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Same game is Available on Windows 7 XP mode install.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Same game is Available on Windows 7 XP mode install.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[popland]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 13:58:39 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What a game!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thanks for this posting as we miss Pinball since XP. The cheats would had been useful considering who I was playing against back then...LOL!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ray.menzel@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 09:53:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[3D Pinball]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Works flawlessly.  Thanks]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[billk11]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:11:31 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Porting or Migrating Games and Applets...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-391822-3669605]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I've noticed many things that went away over the years that had great capabilities and am sure they are &quot;licensing&quot; issues.  I recently read windows 8 will not play DVD or BluRay due to codecs and licensing MS doesn't want to keep paying for.  One applet I found of great use in the past was in older MS Office Tools called &quot;Microsoft Photo Editor&quot; that could create great effects and textures such as stained glass and canvas, etc.   It had (has) many abilities that were easy to use.  I know of photo editing like Gimp and have Corel and some Adobe professional tools, but it is so complicated to &quot;learn&quot; how to do some simple tasks so I revert to the old photo editor (in win7) a lot of times.  I'm not sure it's technically legal to have moved, but I just HAD to have it so where do I insert coins to pay for it?There are many view and folder options with Windows 7 that I don't like and cannot revert to the ones and programs such as tweakUI just won't do what I need to do so it's a shame that we can't &quot;pick and choose&quot; the exact behavior, applets, games, etc. that we want on a newer OS.  (yes, I've tried many classic desktop simulators, but they also cannot do what I need believe it or not)  Many times just knowing the proper vocabulary to search for what you want or need  to describe is very hard too!   I would have never recalled this pinball if it wasn't for this article.Someone should create a list of items that &quot;used&quot; to exist divided into games, functionality, etc.   I wish all these things were portable and modularized to make moving them easier.  I think it's awful that such fun and easy items existed that have gone wayside and many times even paying to have that option is not an &quot;option&quot;.  Remember Battlezone, Centepede, Joust and Tempest, etc.?    yes, they can work on Win7 and my kids and I have a blast with them!   I bet there's some &quot;retro&quot; install for them, but not that I have found.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[tech@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:33:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thanks]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I did this transfer four years ago from XP to Vista Home Premium by copying the Pinball files from an XP computer to a CD, then to the Vista computer from the CD. But I somehow missed the Help file. Thanks for this info.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ITOdeed]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:33:20 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I dunno]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The pinball games on my iPad leave this one far, far away in the dust.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[phasys303@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:33:02 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Love it!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Love articles like this!  Thanx!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marty-7]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:13:46 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[DUDE]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm so trying this sometime soon! Thanks for this post! A million thanks]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jfuller05]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:28:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Windows games]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I played the 3D pinball game a bit, but it is not the same as a real pinball machine so it could not hold my interest. What other games do you wish you bring forward in time and play on your Windows 7 computers?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark W. Kaelin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 07:59:09 -0700</pubDate>
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