The Goonies Never Say Die

• Found a water damaged Demolition Man Cabinet on Craigslist
• Sourced three televisions
• Hacked up the cabinet with my brother and installed the TVs and fans
• Bought some hardware
• Abandoned project in 2010 (kids, right?)

• "Are you ever going to work on that pinball machine?"
• "You can't start anything new until you finish that pinball machine"

• Started contributing to vpx-js, "Visual Pinball in the browser"
• Focused on VBScript to JS transpiler
• Made some really good progress but ultimately too many obstacles to overcome

• Started contributing to Visual Pinball Engine, "Visual Pinball Engine for Unity"
• Learned C#, helped on editor tools, Unity Visual Scripting, and cross platform support
• Helped on the libpinmame library (allows PinMAME integration in any application)
• Helped on integrating libpinmame into Visual Pinball Engine

• Attempted a rewrite of Visual Pinball called VPX++ (Player Plus)
• Complete failure when trying to port DirectX to OpenGL

• Discovered Visual Pinball VR, a fork of Visual Pinball for VR headsets which used OpenGL
• Started reverse engineering how ancient COM and ATL Microsoft technologies work
• Discovered Wine's VBScript engine source code
• Worked on a way to cleanly modify VPVR without re-writing everything
• VPVR merged back into Visual Pinball
• Joined the Scranton Pinball League

• First working real table on MacOS, "Grand Tour EM"
• Added support for running on Linux
• Added support for iOS and OpenGL ES
• Renamed the work to VPX Standalone

• Implemented libpinmame
• Added support for running on Linux
• Added support for iOS and OpenGL ES
• Renamed the work to VPX Standalone

January

• Added support for Raspberry Pi 4 (beyond slow)
• Added support for tvOS using an Xbox controller
• T2 and AC/DC finally playable

February

• Started porting FlexDMD to C++
• Blood Machines finally playable

March

• Added support for Serum colorizations
• Added touch support for Android and iOS

April

• Added support for ZeDMD displays

June

• Implemented FlexDMDs version of UltraDMD
• Resumed work on the Visual Pinball Cabinet

August

• Completed porting all of FlexDMD^*

September

• Helped on Visual Pinball Standalone being integrated in Batocera 38 beta
• Started porting B2S from VB Net to C++

October - November

• Finished porting B2S
• Batocera 38 released with Visual Pinball Standalone built in
• Installed cabinet artwork based on VPW's "The Goonies Never Say Die Pinball"
• Prepped for the Electric City Pinball Show