Pinball Games on Facebook

[sleepy]

I searched for this several weeks ago, but all FB had was for mobile devices.
None were listed for desktop.

I searched again today and I found this. It's pretty decent when setting the browser to Full Screen. Generic, but the physics seem reasonable, unlike many Flash pinball games:

You can find it here:
https://apps.facebook.com/pinballgame/

 

[sleepy]

Huh. Their search engine must have malfunctioned.
I just found this list:

https://www.facebook.com/search/str...WE0ZGE2NDU5YzQzYzdjOTNlNWYyYTAwNTdjOTM3MGEifQ

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

do they mean ipad / android rather than FB?

 

[sleepy]

Yeah, I guess so. The list is a mix of desktop and offsite mobile mashups.
I've been playing Magic Pinball. It's an old school Flash scrolling type pinball, and limited to 2 1/2 minutes per game.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

yea, there's definitely some better ones than that just among flash and android apps. i'm wary of FB apps since most of them are designed to harvest data.

speaking of... remember pinball magic for DOS?
http://www.myabandonware.com/game/pinball-magic-zc

doesn't look like much, but it's somehow fun and challenging.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

btw, do you think there's any risk DL'ing and running old DOS exe's from the net? i mean, i'm just wondering if malware people have taken the originals and modified them with few the wiser.

or does the nature of DOS BOX mean that the exe's run in a walled-off, safe environment...?

 

[sleepy]

In times past I've depended on antivirus to make that determinant!
A quick and dirty trick in case you have a Yahoo! e-mail might be to download the .exe. Don't open it. Send it to yourself as an attachment.
Yahoo! e-mail scans attachments for viruses before they allow you to save it.

Another help is to go to the McAfee Site Advisor website and enter the URL of the download site. They check sites for exploits.
Your site is considered safe:

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/http://www.myabandonware.com

Google Chrome and search engine block malware sites from the results, though that might backfire if the site goes evil overnight. That can also happen with Flash ads from weekend hackers. They place an ad to run on the weekend (to exploit), and the site it appears on is not responsible.
And the ad company responsible for the rotating banners is duped.

 

[faralos]

try this site for some nice pins
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/search/games/pinball