Caltrops - Caltrops Pinball





	[quote name="Fussbett"][quote name="mark"]Did the Caltrops table cause such an uproar that the developers destroyed Future Pinball?[/quote] Everyone's looking for details. You can read this thread of refugees: <a href="http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?s=cb50cb8d43a10ccc501950cac9f00769&showtopic=4528" target="pin">http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?s=cb50cb8d43a10ccc501950cac9f00769&showtopic=4528</a> ...but it seems like no one knows what the final straw was, beyond him vaguely saying he "can't be bothered anymore" (kiss the other half of this football article goodbye). That Steve Paradis guy seems really bitter about things. From my very outsider view of the forum it seems like the developer, Black/Chris, was mostly annoyed at two things: People asking him to implement ROM emulation (like Virtual Pinball, his ex-project and sworn enemy) and people hacking the Future Pinball .exe to remove the "Future Pinball" watermark in the corner. Most guilty of this were the cabinet makers -- people who build entire pinball machine shells and put a computer inside with a length-wise wide-screen LCD for the "glass". They want to remove the watermark for realism and I guess to sell, and when Black saw examples of that in photos or YouTube videos, he'd go mental. I saw some of this a couple months ago when he saw another offender yet again and said something to the effect of "well that's it, I'm removing the arcade rendering option!" (the 90-degree mode that cabinet makers use). The less obvious aspect was that I think Black was just generally annoyed at all the table makers thinking they had a part in the development, their sense of entitlement and whines and demands. It was clear he wanted to just do whatever he wanted to do, and if you didn't like it, go make a Virtual Pinball table instead.[/quote]