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#Space 3d pinball update#

The Full Tilt! version has a 3D render of a space scene, while Microsoft's has a "cartoon" of a "Space Cadet" (possibly in reference to "Duck Dodgers", a Looney Tunes short about Daffy Duck and Porky Pig as astronauts, with Porky as the "Cadet").įull Tilt! Pinball was originally written in "significant amounts of x86 assembly language". The "counter" graphics between the two versions are slightly different.

#Space 3d pinball update#

The Windows XP version (and final update to the Microsoft version of the table), sports a new icon to keep up with the Luna theme.

Maxis/Cinematronics acknowledges this as a selling point for the software, on the jewel case artwork. Microsoft's single table only renders the table (not even renders, for both versions of the software, it is pre-rendered) at 640x480.

The Maxis version's tables can be rendered up to 1024x768 resolution.PINBALL2.MID is included with every copy, but is a data file. In Microsoft's version, there is only a single file ( PINBALL.MID) that is the standard theme looped over 8 minutes. There is a "Standard" soundtrack that loops during regular gameplay, a "challenge" track, and a "game over/winner" track. The Maxis version has three soundtracks per game, stored in the "MDS" MIDI format.It has a hidden test mode with several features to test gameplay.

Microsoft's version simply uses an image that is a resource in the executable as a splash screen.

Usually, Full Tilt! Pinball tables load a video intro ( INTRO.AVI), that shows the Cinematronics and Full Tilt! logo.The Microsoft release has several differences: