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Phoebe75

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    Can't play Pinball?
    « on: August 22, 2020, 05:43:40 AM »
    Hello, I dug through my old box of disks and found an old game on CD called Pinball Illusions.
    I tried to play it on my new Dell, ( I just wanted to test the computers abilities) the dell has a Pentium4, 1 gig ram 500 Gig hard drive Xp sp3, but it wont do anything.
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    When I tried to install it and run it a smallish box came up(looked like a DOS type install box) and words flashed across the screen then everything just went away.
    End result is the game doesnt do anything and wont play.

    I tried it in my other computer the AMD Athalon but same thing.
    Am I doing it wrong?
    Im thinking it may be too old for modern systems. or its me ( thats the most likely cenario)
    Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you.

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    Re: Can't play Pinball?
    « Reply #1 on: August 23, 2020, 08:15:27 AM »
    It's a DOS game and you would probably need to install a program like DOSBox to be able to run it.

    If all you want to do is play the game, it's available to play on-line here: https://classicreload.com/pinball-illusions.html

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    Re: Can't play Pinball?
    « Reply #2 on: August 23, 2020, 03:00:43 PM »
    I think they are a copy-paste spammer. copied from here.
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