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First post, by Matth79

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What was this game?

Dates back to Win9x, and was on of the first things I exercised my S3 Savage 4 on (needed a 3D card, I think it used OpenGL).

There was a ball, moving through a floating track (several tracks, and I think there were user made ones as well) - if it fell off, you lost!

I thought it was called "Balls of Steel", before the TV show and pinball game

[EDIT] It was called "I've got some BALLS" (Sebastian Aaltonen, 1999).

Reply 1 of 18, by leileilol

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Labyrinth (D3D7)? Neverball (OpenGL)?

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Reply 2 of 18, by Stiletto

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I've got some BALLS (Sebastian Aaltonen, 1999)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRLbAlcGtGs

"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen

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Reply 4 of 18, by Stiletto

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Attached my install directory. Haven't tried to run it recently. I think it last ran for me in WinXP okay.

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I've got some BALLS v1.02 (3D-engine v4.0) (C) Sebastian Aaltonen 1999 --------------------------------------------- […]
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I've got some BALLS v1.02 (3D-engine v4.0)
(C) Sebastian Aaltonen 1999
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This game is fully FREEWARE so you may copy it as much as
you want. The game is allowed to be distributed by all
distribution channels (like collection CDs, WWW-pages and BBS
etc.) without special authorization. Selfmade levels to the game
and other addons may be distributed freely as long as you
don't try to change the name of the author or try in any
other way to cause harm to author. If you make addons to
the game then remember also to mention that you have made them
yourself and they are not my productions. You are permitted
to make money with the game and it can be used for advertising
purposes, etc...

If anyone gets it to run, let me know what the tricks are 😀 Keys don't seem to be working at the menu...

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"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen

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Reply 6 of 18, by Stiletto

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mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

I wonder if an XP VM would do the trick.

Feels like overkill. There's probably some AppCompat flags that will make short work of it or something 😀

"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen

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Reply 8 of 18, by leileilol

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It's a D3D6 game. The DX SDK sample code device/res picker was recognizable

Works on PCem v10.1 with WinME guest and 3dfx Voodoo Graphics 😀

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Reply 9 of 18, by Stiletto

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If someone gets this running natively outside of a VM or emulator, please let us know and let us know how you did it 😀

"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen

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Reply 11 of 18, by balls

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Hello, working just fine on windows 7 for me, i7 6700k, gpu r9 390. No 3rd party program needed. Enter key is set on left crtl, navigate with arrows and go back with esc. Im playing in 1920x1080x32 120fps. Some level are missing or maybe there is another verson, back in 2000 it was much more dificult to complete those levels 😊 and i dont remember any ollin.

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Reply 13 of 18, by keenmaster486

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Well, it's working on my system.
Specs:
Windows 7 Pro
i7 6500U
Intel HD graphics 520

Compatibility set to Windows 98/ME, works fine until you try to end to game and go back to the menu, then it crashes. I didn't do anything special other than that. As others have pointed out, the enter key is remapped to left ctrl.

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Reply 18 of 18, by okenido

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oh my GOD i spent this whole evening searching for this game, trying random "old 3D ball game win9x" keywords on google.. after HOURS of trying I finally found again this game I played a long time ago 😀