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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rayder" data-source="post: 142954" data-attributes="member: 4226">Oh man!  VP has been on my PC's since forever.  A few years back, I used to hang at vpforums quite a bit.  They used much older forum software than they do now.    I haven't really visited there in.....years now.  Wow! it really has been like 2-3 years.....or more......goodness.   I actually helped gather the assets a "table creator" needed to recreate the first Tri-Zone table for VP.  I could minimize this window and play right now, as a matter of fact.  Heh....Back then, I built up a gnarly collection of re-creations, and a sizable handful of original VP tables.  I used this ancient menu manager called VPTM (Visual Pinball Table Manager). I don't know if it still exists at vpforums or not anymore, but that's where I got it all those years ago.  It says I currently have 716 tables at my finger tips.  I love that it simply listed my tables in columns, alphabetically.  It was written in basic, so it was easily editable to tell it where your tables are, then it lists them out in a simple selectable list you can play any table through.  It's simple, practical, and it works. I love it. I have it all set up to do what I call a "gut and stuff", I can transfer the whole program (12GB) and move it to another PC while retaining nearly all functionality.  Just by moving it and running 4 files to set it up.  I got it going on with VP stuff!The problem?  it's...errr....VP6.  I'd have to trash everything (except that handy menu program....possibly) and start all over again.  I considered it "done" when they went to VP7 and most of those 700+ tables wouldn't work anymore, so I'd have to start all over again with the collection.  At the time, there weren't many tables for VP7 yet. So, if they are up to VP9, that will give you an idea of how long ago it must have been. Yeah....But I still have over 700 tables to play at my finger tips. Even if they are "inferior" versions of them. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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