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Hello out there in cyber-land! I want to tell you about a certain problem I recently discovered. It's like this-- a week or so back, Wikipedia's official FP entry read like this:
Me, I really can't see how that text helps the FP project, this site, virtual pinball, or pinball in general. I.e. the entry reads like FP has been dead for years.
On the contrary, though-- not only is FP a robust, active project (via BAM), and not only can ROM tables be emulated in FP, but most (or all?) of the long-time issues, such as a poor flipper physics, have been solved or greatly improved over time, especially with major leaps forward such as this.
Unfortunately, I have to think all that outdated info has done some real damage over the years, and turned off plenty of interested virtual pin folks along the way. Because it's not hard to imagine a typical visitor thinking "Why should I try out this completely outdated software when there's VP and the commercial pin emulators, instead?"
So then, I've gone ahead and tried to improve the intro. Hope it looks better now? It's a start, anyway! At the same time, the main article still needs to be updated, as well as modern, supporting links added to support the claims.
My problem with trying to do all that myself is that I'm still very much a FP noobie. A more recent issue is that I've been having eyestrain the past week that doesn't seem to be going away. I'm afraid I need to pass the baton on to the community, at this point.
Please, then-- feel free to add whatever edits you can in order to improve the article. Start by going to the WP entry, then hit "edit" from the top of the page. Even improving a word or some formatting, or dropping in a reference link would help. In this way, little by little, hopefully as a community we can bring the article up to speed.
Thank you for whatever help you can provide. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Pinball (Future Pinball - Wikipedia)
Note: You don't need to have a Wikipedia acct in order to do edits, and editing progress is kept in a history in case update errors are made.
Future Pinball is a freeware 3D pinball editing and gaming application for Microsoft Windows. The software is similar to Visual Pinball but usage of original pinball ROM code is not allowed. The project discontinued and the last version of Future Pinball was released in 2010.
Me, I really can't see how that text helps the FP project, this site, virtual pinball, or pinball in general. I.e. the entry reads like FP has been dead for years.
On the contrary, though-- not only is FP a robust, active project (via BAM), and not only can ROM tables be emulated in FP, but most (or all?) of the long-time issues, such as a poor flipper physics, have been solved or greatly improved over time, especially with major leaps forward such as this.
Unfortunately, I have to think all that outdated info has done some real damage over the years, and turned off plenty of interested virtual pin folks along the way. Because it's not hard to imagine a typical visitor thinking "Why should I try out this completely outdated software when there's VP and the commercial pin emulators, instead?"
So then, I've gone ahead and tried to improve the intro. Hope it looks better now? It's a start, anyway! At the same time, the main article still needs to be updated, as well as modern, supporting links added to support the claims.
My problem with trying to do all that myself is that I'm still very much a FP noobie. A more recent issue is that I've been having eyestrain the past week that doesn't seem to be going away. I'm afraid I need to pass the baton on to the community, at this point.
Please, then-- feel free to add whatever edits you can in order to improve the article. Start by going to the WP entry, then hit "edit" from the top of the page. Even improving a word or some formatting, or dropping in a reference link would help. In this way, little by little, hopefully as a community we can bring the article up to speed.
Thank you for whatever help you can provide. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Pinball (Future Pinball - Wikipedia)
Note: You don't need to have a Wikipedia acct in order to do edits, and editing progress is kept in a history in case update errors are made.