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[kalavera]

File Name: Algar (Williams 1980)

File Submitter: kalavera

File Submitted: 17 May 2018

File Category: VPX/VPinMAME Recreations

Author(s): Thalamus - Kalavera
Manufacturer: Williams
Year: 1980
ROM: Link to ROM
Media Pack: Link to Media Pack
Permission to MOD?: Yes, without approval

The table was made by thalamus, I only helped a little in the playfield and plastics, but for his generosity he asked me to raise it, to share the credit, I tell you that this table I wanted to do from a while ago, because is one of my favorites, I played quite the "Kristian" and although the table is very nice, I think I needed to get a little up to date, when I had started to make some things at the table, I had a very big family problem unfortunately I end badly, and I lost my enthusiasm, until one day Thalamus asked me if I had gotten some material from Algar and everything happened to him, what the people of www.tothesanctum.com had generously sent me from the USA. I answered the email in which I requested some pictures, after passing the material to Thalamus I felt like helping him, and he agreed, thanks to that I met a great boy, that's what I enjoyed the most in these last d ias Well I hope you enjoy as we enjoy doing it, and many thanks to Thalamus for your generosity, and sorry for bothering you at any time is that our schedules are a little different.
 
 
PD: this table is free for modification by whoever wants, it would be nice to be named but it is not essential either.

Click here to download this file

[Thalamus]

Oh boy. We see this very differently. Without your help I would probably given up long before. Yes, I made it playable. It is still not the most beautiful table out there, but, I can tell you. I would have stopped long before if you haven't helped me out with updates and fixes. You totally deserve being in the spotlight on this release.

[Practicedummy]

Great job on this! Definitely crisper looking than my VP9 recreation. The gameplay and physics feels right too.

[STAT]

Team Kalaveramus .. and a bit Hauntfreaks (soon ?) like Salt in a good Meal 

[xenonph]

I agree!! Great table!!

And 2 great people who have helped this community greatly with all of their contributions and help in forums.

Damn good job Kalavera and Thalamus!!

You are both VIP's in my eyes.

Carry on.

[kalavera]

thank you all for the comments, on my behalf and thalamus, some exaggerated, if xenonph spoke of you  , but I know you say it because you feel it, thank you very much friend.

[Thalamus]

Oh yes. I've been in contact with a couple of senior authors and they have helped us a bit on a possible update. We are however waiting it out a bit. Crossing my fingers to get hold of some better playfield images.

And. Thanks guys for all your kind words and support.

Practicedummy: If you had VPX available - I bet it would both look and play even better than this is

It is the devs that we really should be thanking.

Edited by Thalamus, 18 May 2018 - 05:21 PM.

[humanoide]

@thalamus

@kalavera

 

thanks guys, this table is very well received in my collection.

and I am very happy to see that your first VPX creation has been great.

[shannon1]

I have just been giving this one a twirl on my cab. The graphics on this table have to be some of the ugliest ever designed(thanks Constantino Mitchell) next to Diamond Lady ,but Damn....it is fun to play and that music/ "throbbing" sound is addictive! Thank Thalamus and Kalevera for all of your hard work on this great table.  Also, this might be another interesting one to retheme like Haunt did with Harley Quinn since it plays so great?

Edited by shannon1, 19 May 2018 - 01:13 AM.

[lizard]

Anybody else having trouble opening the rar file. I am getting an error on both the table and the backglass files, cannot open rar as archive? I have re downloaded both and still gives the same error.

[xenonph]

Try using 7zip. It extracts many different formats including rar files.

And it is free.

Find here..

https://www.7-zip.org/download.html

 

I just tested the file in question and it extracted both the dB2S backglass and table.

Edited by xenonph, 20 May 2018 - 08:38 AM.

[Thalamus]

You could got to randr site and download the zip version. Kalavera did some minor changes to the content of this upload and with a different packager format. I should add. I also had problems with his rar files. I unrar them on my linux machine until I decideded to update to the latest winrar on the desktop machine. So it seems he has a newer winrar and that it is semi-incomptible with older ?? ones.

[lizard]

Thanks guys i use 7zip, i will try the files from randr's site. I just updated 7zip as well but no difference.  

 

Edit: the files from randr's site are all good cheers.

Edited by lizard, 20 May 2018 - 09:39 AM.

[kalavera]

I use the Computer work for this, perhaps have a new versión of winrar.

[STAT]

With 7Zip, you are Always the Winner

[Practicedummy]

Oh yes. I've been in contact with a couple of senior authors and they have helped us a bit on a possible update. We are however waiting it out a bit. Crossing my fingers to get hold of some better playfield images.

And. Thanks guys for all your kind words and support.

Practicedummy: If you had VPX available - I bet it would both look and play even better than this is

It is the devs that we really should be thanking.

It had more to do with using less than great quality images for my table. Almost all of them came from the IPDB.

[Thalamus]

@practicedummy.: Oh. I understand very well how much you guys struggled to make this look good - believe me. There is still no great resources available.  I'm hoping to get some, but, that is another story. Without you and other authors previous work this build would not be something I would have considered try to build or release. So, thank you very much for your contribution to this hobby !

Edited by Thalamus, 20 May 2018 - 07:32 PM.

[Brer Frog]

Thank you for great playing table.

[batch]

Hi

 

I just installed last version of VPinball (VPX_6_beta_rev3582) and I have the last VPinMAME 3.2 beta

 

I use the table "Algar" from Kalavera & Thalamus as a starting point for my table "Accept" and I have the following problem with both tables (I've tried to play several other tables and I didn't have any problem)

 

I get these messages

 

     and then VPX crashes

 

Here is the crash report

 

Crash report VPX rev3582
============
Process: vpinballx.exe
Reason: 0xC0000005 - EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION at 0023:00494059
Attempt to read from 0x00000000
Thread ID: 0x1D40 [7488]

Call stack
==========
00494059 vpinballx.exe (0x0BD93560 0x0BC2FCE0 0x00000000 0x0019f7e4)
004E0251 vpinballx.exe (0x00070928 0x085C02B0 0x085C2150 0x0000000f)
004DE4C6 vpinballx.exe (0x00000000 0x02B6CA60 0x00000001 0x00000000)
0052CD58 vpinballx.exe (0x02B6CA60 0x00000001 0x00000000 0x0067c0d0)
0052CE32 vpinballx.exe (0x00400000 0x00000000 0x02D83EF3 0x00000001)
00541CAB vpinballx.exe (0x002C5000 0x73EC8460 0xFFFFFFFFA87B113E 0x0019ffdc)
73EC8484 KERNEL32.DLL BaseThreadInitThunk + 0x24 (0x002C5000 0xFFFFFFFFA2557CA8 0x00000000 0x00000000)
7714302C ntdll.dll RtlValidSecurityDescriptor + 0x11C (0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF 0x7715EC64 0x00000000 0x00000000)
77142FFA ntdll.dll RtlValidSecurityDescriptor + 0xEA (0x02B6CA60 0x002C5000 0x00000000 0x78746341)

Environment
===========
Date/time: 9/12/2018, 17:18:23:681
Number of CPUs: 8
Processor type: 586
System: Windows 10 (10.0 17134)

Memory status
=============
Total Reserved: 228036K (222M) bytes
Total Commited: 265776K (259M) bytes
Total Free: 3700428K (3613M) bytes
Largest Free: 2095548K (2046M) bytes

Registers
=========
EAX=00000000 EBX=0BD93560 ECX=00000000 EDX=0019F404
ESI=085C02B0 EDI=09914FF0 EBP=0019FFEC ESP=0019FFE4 EIP=77142FFA
FLG=00210206 CS=0023 DS=002B SS=002B ES=002B FS=0053 GS=002B


Mini dump saved successfully.

[Thalamus]

I've already noticed that and reported it to Toxie and Fuzzel. It is related to the newest beta and will be fixed in the next.