According to Atari's Support page: PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING IF YOU ARE TRYING TO RUN THIS GAME UNDER WINDOWS XP. THIS PATCH IS REQUIRED FOR THE GAME TO WORK! A patch has been released for Balls of Steel that will upgrade your game version to 1.3. This version adds the following features to the game …

Given the fact that no one is responding, you might want to try the Tech Support section of the following forum: http://www.crius.net/zone/index.php Good Luck!

Microsoft Pinball Arcade (now published by Atari) is another title that fits into this category. You can play the music tracks in Media Player. I did some research into complaints from users of Pinball Arcade about this problem some time back, and the common element seemed to be that all of the …