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I haven't got Pinball dreams for the PC, but I have got pinballs dreams 2.

I find that I also get the table selection screen, but when I select a table, the game hangs instead of displaying the pinball table.

I have a workaround for the time being. I lower the cycles to around 3000, and then select the table.

The table now displays as expected. I then raise cycles to at least 10000 to make the game playable, after the table has loaded.

This works for Pinball Dreams 2. I don't know whether the same method would also allow you to play Pinball Dreams 1 though.

Many thanx I will give it a go. Are you playing it from the CD? I mount my Cd drive as C: in DOS then type DELUXE to run the game. Pinball Dreams Deluxe by the way.

Cheers

You may need to mount a folder on your hard drive as C: and the CD-ROM drive as D:. If the CD is mounted as C: then the game won't be able to write any data because the CD is read-only - this could be the cause of the problem.

FYI: My version of pinball dreams 2 just runs from the HDD. It doesn't need CD access I think it's just a single-part executable file called pinbald2.exe or something.

Does your CD version of your game have an install.bat or simillar, so you can install it to the HDD?
In that case, you'll need to mount a writeable HDD drive or folder as C: and the CD drive at the same time as D: for example, as HunterZ has mentioned.