i have about a 7 year old hp compaq laptop with windows 7 on it, so i want to download pinballs that i can play on laptop, not like a cabinet or anything. If anyone out there can throw some easy step by steps (i am even willing to purge everything and start over from scratch) procedures (with screenshots) then that would be cool.
i have been trying for weeks on all versions of the excutables, roms, tables, etc to no avail except for one pinball that does work (The Blues Brothers) which is fine and all, but i more interested in playing other greats that i grew up playing when i was a kid. I must be missing something in this equation because once all is said and done and i want to try out the goods, i usually get the official Active X controller missing error, which i have gone to the website and attempted to download the latest and greatest version of it and i believe it has downloaded however, i keep continuing to get the same errors on most games and then i get a controller coding error in the script says its missing some sort of coding i am guessing. I am fully aware of the visual pinball and Pinmame emulators and have gone to the website and installed all the required files, watched tutorial videos, etc. I was born in the 70's, so i pretty much grew up in the mecca of all the the pinball greats through the 70's, 80's, and 90's. To begin with, i am a huge video game fan and i love pinball too. So, basically i will try to make this post as brief as possible. Hello, maybe you can help me or at least point me in the right direction.