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[destruk]

The only catch is, the code can't be sold in a commercial product unless it is licensed from Randy and Nanotech Entertainment. But other than that, it's open source for public use. So it can't be a free GPL license for any purpose. We'll need to submit a license text file to the SVN for this adjustment.

[Rawd]

The only catch is, the code can't be sold in a commercial product unless it is licensed from Randy and Nanotech Entertainment. But other than that, it's open source for public use. So it can't be a free GPL license for any purpose. We'll need to submit a license text file to the SVN for this adjustment.

I was curious about this. Thanks for clarifying.

[gear323]

Holy crap! I really thought this day would never come. I've been a VP fan since the early days before Black started helping with the project. I remember when Boris made his version of Addams Family and how great it was at the time. Or how about Nicky Special and his illegal mods what a scene he caused lol. It's crazy how much progress we have made since those days. Thanks Randy!!

Now if Black would only do the same with Future Pinball One can dream!

I without a doubt would love to see the animated backglass support built into VP and the CAB .dll file can be included with VP and just be an option within the software.

Come to think of it, maybe the guys over at HyperPin would be interested in making VP and HyperPin fully intergrated. HyperPin is a nice front end even if you are not using FS tables.

Edited by gear323, 25 February 2010 - 10:05 PM.

[pinball buzz]

Having had time to digest all what has happened / been written in the last 24 hours or so, would just like to add the following,

Thanks to Randy to have the forethought to make the decision and release VP open source
Thanks go to Destruk and all the team who are making things happen for all the players and supporters of pinball
The publicity and news that this will create needs to be used in a positive way for the benefit of the community - Noah is sure to be on the case.

The futures bright, the future is the silver ball

[wtiger]

The source code of Visual Pinball is available as Open Source on SourceForge:
https://sourceforge....jects/vpinball/ (has moved!)

Destruk and I are currently working on the repository structure.

Windows developer are welcome to join the project.

Maddes,
A BIG THANK YOU for your involvement in this as well!

[Joe]

Is there going to be away so can keep locked table for tournament play / have a ver of vp with tournaments build in?

[destruk]

Is there going to be away so can keep locked table for tournament play / have a ver of vp with tournaments build in?

Joe, further tournaments aren't going to need tables to be locked anymore. But we're waiting on the vpforums frontend to be ready before pushing forward on that.

[Rawd]

Is there going to be away so can keep locked table for tournament play / have a ver of vp with tournaments build in?

Joe, further tournaments aren't going to need tables to be locked anymore. But we're waiting on the vpforums frontend to be ready before pushing forward on that.

Could you possibly tell us a little bit more about this frontend? I am curious if it is also going to run FP tables?

[sleepy]

As for a universal scripting engine for Windows, Mac and Linux, what about javascript?

And could VP be converted to an Object or plugin that might allow the VP objects and graphics to be controlled externally by javascript or Java or?

I might like to be able to use Java in VP instead of a com object, for sound and things.

Edited by sleepy, 26 February 2010 - 02:55 PM.

[destruk]

Could you possibly tell us a little bit more about this frontend? I am curious if it is also going to run FP tables?

Noah is handling that - so I don't know much about it.

[Wizards_Hat]

Wow! Not read the forum for about 4 days due to work & home life being very busy this week - login Friday evening & wow!

First of all, as many have said - thanks, Randy, Brian & any others involved in getting us to this stage, and especially Randy for this philanthropic gesture.

Secondly, I would love to be involved in looking into this in more detail...but unfortunately I think this will have to wait until the summer for me to really get my teeth into it (I get 6 weeks off!) - I will probably not even get chance to look over the code until Easter.

Personally, I think it'll be really interesting to see what can actually be improved - Randy's obviously no slouch when it comes to programming, so for people to be asking for all sorts of things in this thread I find amusing...as the comment that's been posted already shows, Randy will have tried an awful lot that didn't work for him, and possibly cannot work within the confines of the VP structure.

Regardless of what happens, I think it can only be a good thing for VP in the long run.

Regards,
Dan.

[Cameron]

Excellent news!!!!!

I move jobs and states and finally get back into the VP/Ultrapin world and wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Best news ever.

Super big thanks to Randy, Destruk, and anyone else who is helping on this.

I'm a windows programmer. I plan on helping.

[pintable]

Does anyone have an alternative download for VP 8 source. None of the links posted work for me. was it removed? Even the sourceforge link doesnt work and a manual search pulls up nothing. Any help would be appreciated.

Edited by pintable, 03 March 2010 - 01:27 AM.

[Noah Fentz]

http://sourceforge.n...vpinball/files/

[ynneBBenny]

Unfortunately those are not the source files. They are the compiled files.

[rascal]

Here is the link to the source code and there is a link to download the tarball on this page.
http://vpinball.svn....l/?sortdir=down

[pintable]

Thanks rascal. that was driving me nuts.

[LaughingOtter]

Just got the news from theguyoverthere! WHOLLY CHAO!!!
Okay, that means I'm in!

Now let's see what kind of shape my C++ is in...I wonder if this would compile using mingw32 like MAME does...

[Gottlieb]

Awesome! Maybe some of my early tables that were broken by new versions of VP will soon work again!

[carlos200022]

Best news ever! (after the birth of my two children of course).

Thanks Randy for releasing it to the community.

Open Source! lol