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Meanwhile it manages to launch TPA, but not select a table (the problem was that TPA silently quits if it encounters a changed screen resolution without having a matching change to its configuration). After some time of sticking around in TPA's main screen I tried to exit TPA, but it just hung. The music kept playing but its showed a black screen with very thin grey borders on top and bottom. Quitting PBX outside of TPA didn't change anything. I had to kill TPA in the task manager. I'm not sure how to determine the value for <gridposition>, maybe it's just the wrong position pointing at a table I didn't buy (?). log.txt PinballX.ini Pinball Arcade.xml

I just tried to start a TPA table from PinballX with the default settings for TPA. Steam does do "something", and something launches, but then nothing happens until the timeout runs out, then I'm returned to PinballX. I think I have some reading comprehension issues: Is it possible to launch specific TPA tables directly from within PinballX? If so, what's required beyond the default options in PinballX's TPA section? Some people mention external launchers, but others say that built-in TPA support should be enough, so I'm not sure.

PinballX surely is great, and I'm guessing pinball simulation isn't going to go anywhere from Windows, seeing that VP is so tightly coupled to Windows technology. GameEx on the other hand could potentially even run on Raspberry Pi (there is Mono and SDL there, wink wink) But enough dreaming. If I find the time, I'm signing up for an FTP account to try try some of the media in Attract Mode just for the fun of it, that way I get the best of both worlds, hah. And I'm happily here if there is ever anything to test on Linux.

I'm semi-resurrecting this. Several big-name games have been released for Linux using Mono in the meantime, many of them cheerfully linking to e.g. LGPL libs from their own proprietary code. Monogame offers the complete (or almost) set of XNA features on Linux. I think this has pretty much become an accepted working model in the Linux game development scene, so it should surely also work for GameEx. A counterpoint could be that a few decent Linux emulator frontends exist by now, like Attract Mode or EmulationStation. I suppose it's not too hard to just sign up for an account here and just use things from the FTP in those.

I'm a 2-screen guy so I do appreciate the grill ones. Thank you!

Hey, thanks, I did search there as well but that didn't turn up. I'll try it next week and will post back how it worked

Is it possible to specify a separate system that uses mostly VP9 configuration but the VPX executable? I'd like to play VPX and VP9 tables using the same PinballX, but so far I haven't been able to put that together. I'm sure I'm missing something, I tried adding it as system to a bunch of files, but it doesn't show up in the systems list.