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I want a FOSS version of Plants vs Zombies to exist
Really all of the classic Pop Cap games, like peggle and bejeweled. Before they were bastardized.
If people are interested in digital pinball, there are lots of additional options if you get tired of just playing one table. Pinball FX, Zaccaria pinball, Pinball Deluxe Reloaded, Only Pinball, are just some of the paid options (usually with a free demo table to check out the program.) for digital pinball.
And since this is Lemmy, i will mention that there is a FOSS program called visual pinball, where folks have created digital versions of classic tables, as well as their own original pinball creations.
Just went into a fugue state and got 10 million points this game is as great as I remember
I wasted a lot of time at work playing that back in the late 90s. Downloaded.
Windows XP era? Excuse me? It goes all the way back to Windows 95. The original game by Maxis is even older.
It was only in some kind of dlc pack (what?) for windows. The first real os it was included in was xp. I thought we all agreed not to talk about windows me
Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95. And it wasn't "DLC" because it was a physical disc. We need to bring back the term "expansion pack" to avoid ambiguity.
I don't think disc-based distribution of software is coming back in the foreseeable future
Good point. "Downloadable Content" is therefore a bit redundant, is it not? (also "expansion pack" sounds exciting, and "downloadable content" sounds like corpo slop, as the kids say these days)
It was also Windows 98.
That's where I remember it from.
This makes me feel very old.
hm. Our first computer has windows 98 and it definitely didn't have it
For Linux folks, it's also available on FlatHub.
I've installed it on my steam deck and mapped the triggers to the left and right... uh... flappy things?
It works really well, and whenever people see it they're like whoaaaaa I remember that!!
I don't remember this game, but I downloaded it, and it works great! I'll be killing a lot of time with this.
It was great to see that after all these years, and countless hours playing it, I still absolutely suck at it.
Be warned, there's an ad supported version under a very similar name in the PlayStore. It's worse in every way and has some permissions that it shouldn't be asking for.
The GitHub version still has the cheats intact.
What are cheats? Tilting the table?
Extra balls, multipliers, God mode(although that's mostly broken on Android)
They were in the original game as cheat codes you typed in. GitHub Android version just added buttons for them in the settings.
It seems like the reason that cheats were removed is because of public leaderboards
Makes sense, but personally I don't care about leader boards, so I'd rather have the functionality in tact.
Other platforms you can run it on:
- Linux
- Windows
- MacOS
- PS Vita
- Nintendo Switch
- webOS TV
- Nintendo Wii
- Nintendo 3DS
- Nintendo DS
- Nintendo Wii U
- PlayStation 2
- Sega Dreamcast
- MorphOS
- AmigaOS 4
How can you do this to me?! I have a family, bro! Now nothing will get done!
I don't remember this game. I was pretty young back then tho
I think that game was actually supposed to be a demo for a bigger pinball game right?
Nah, it was an old maxis game, part of full tilt pinball, Dave brought it over for all of us to enjoy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ThxdvEajK8g&pp=ygUVRGF2ZSdzIGdhcmFnZSBwaW5iYWxs
He has done a decent amount of vids on the game if you look through his channel
Iirc was a 3 pack pinball game
Yo this is T I G H T
No tilt?
The Fexed Github project has tilt controls (and better gravity sim if I'm not trippin', I know one of the projects had gravity issues and the play store version feels too floaty)
Yes tilt
Strange, I played this one a year ago on Android. I guess it was a port, but it was damn near the same thing. It's called "Space Pinball".
It's not "completely free;" it's just pirated proprietary software that Microsoft hasn't bothered to take down yet.
The definition of Free Software (a.k.a. "open source") is having the legal right to read, modify, and redistribute the source code, not merely the technical capability.
Microsoft doesn't own it, they didn't program it. They paid a license fee to the developer to include it in Windows XP.
Whatever -- whoever holds the copyright hasn't bothered to take it down yet. Point is, even if it's abandonware it's not legitimately "free."
(Also, I'm technically correct anyway: Microsoft owns GitHub, so it'd be the one acting on the copyright holder's DMCA request. 😛)
Also, I'm technically correct anyway: Microsoft owns GitHub, so it'd be the one acting on the copyright holder's DMCA request.
Despite what Take Two would like you to believe, reverse-engineering software isn't illegal unless it's for circumvention of security measures (oversimplified). Distributing copyrighted assets, on the other hand, is. Since the GitHub repo doesn't include the game assets, the only legal DMCA takedown that could be made here is against the Play Store app, in which case, Google would be handling it.
All that said, there doesn't even seem to be a repo for this. There's a different port done by someone else (fexed) last updated over two years ago, but this particular port seems to be closed source. Last update on Play Store was yesterday, but the last time any fork of the main repo was updated was last month.
You do know the code is copyrighted too, right? Reverse engineering isn't the issue here; uploading the result to GitHub is.
Yes, the original code is copyrighted. A recreation of the code, however accurate, isn't. Do you really think Nintendo would let decomps of so many of their games fly if they thought they had legal grounds to remove them?
This isn't a reimplementation though, it's a decompilation and recompilation of the exact binary and code.
No, that's not how copyright works. Decompiling creates a derivative work, which is still copyrighted the same as the original. In order to have a proper clean reimplementation, you need to use a "Chinese wall" procedure whereby one person documents the behavior of the original program and then another person writes a new program from scratch using that description, without ever looking at the original program's source code.
I don't claim to know what Nintendo or its lawyers are thinking, but the law is pretty crystal clear that merely decompiling a proprietary program doesn't magically make it not proprietary anymore.
Most people call that a cleanroom reimplementation
Yes, thanks, that's the more culturally-sensitive name for it that unfortunately didn't come to mind when I wrote my previous comment.
EA (through Maxis) likely still owns this as it was part of their Full Tilt Pinball game. I can totally see EA pursuing this just because of their inner evil.
Well that was an instant yes please
this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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