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[lees1964]

Hi Guys (and gals?), like the title says, I am the fresh new owner of an older home built machine.  It is in a standard size vintage pinball cabinet, with a 42" (I believe it's 42, may be slightly bigger or smaller) playfield monitor.  I'm not one of those guys who needs every little question answered and handed to him on a silver platter, but I am hugely overwhelmed right now.  The short story is this - It works.  Has about 30 games installed (maybe half of them work, the other half either get stuck or pop up an error).  The icon that I was instructed to double click to get things rolling is "Future Pinball".  After some snooping I realized that this has future pinball, visual pinball and maybe one called pinballX folders installed.  Here is kinda my basic question - Are those three folders/programs independent of each other (much like playstation, Xbox and Nintendo would be), or are they all parts of the same whole?  The system is running on a Win7 system, but some of the games that DO work are dated 2020, so I suspect it's been updated to at least that point.  I'm willing to put in ALL the time necessary to read/watch youtube videos, but I'm having trouble finding a starting point.  I know just enough to be dangerous right now, and the last thing I want to do is mess up the handful of games that ARE working by trying to find a way to add new games.  ANY help would be gratefully appreciated.    Oh, one more quick question - Is it fairly standard to hook the computers in these machines up to a wifi connection?  Seems like that would make the download/thumbdrive thing pretty obsolete.  Thanks!  

[JLPicard001]

Here's your silver platter:

Start here it's got 99% of the information you need for this hobby.
http://mjrnet.org/pi.../BuildGuide.php

[lees1964]

I just can't LOVE this enough!!!  Answers absolutely EVERY question I've had so far!  Thank you!