In development · 0.9

A lightweight front end for
virtual pinball cabinets.

Cross-platform — Windows, macOS and Linux. Your cabinet managed from a browser or a phone on your own network. No cloud, and no reaching behind the cab for a keyboard.

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Coming soon · Windows, macOS and Linux

Medieval Madness Williams · 1997

Scope — read this before you start

vPinOps is pre-release, and so is the Visual Pinball it needs. There is no download yet; these pages are being written alongside it.

It targets Visual Pinball Standalone (BGFX), 10.8.1 or newer — the build with the unified [Backglass], [ScoreView] and [Topper] settings. Visual Pinball still marks every 10.8.1 as a pre-release; its newest stable release is 10.8.0, from January 2025.

So if you run a settled production cabinet, this is not for you yet. On 10.8.0, or on the older Windows-only VPinballX.exe, vPinOps will find, show, launch and return your tables — but it cannot place your backglass or DMD, because the settings it writes do not exist on those builds. That is the thing it was built to do.

Who it is for: anyone setting up or rebuilding a cabinet on 10.8.1, and anyone willing to find out what is still broken.

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What vPinOps is A front end, not a rig installer. Cabinet mode and desktop mode, both first-class.

What you supply Visual Pinball, your tables, your ROMs. The list, per platform.

Install on macOS Drag it across, then the two display settings a cabinet needs.

Install on Windows Unzip it, and say yes to the firewall — that is the one that catches people.

Install on Linux Same build, and the two things that decide whether a cabinet works.

OpsLink

Manage your cabinet from your phone or browser.

The cab serves its own interface to any device on your network. Manage your library, send a table over from the device in your hand, set ROM and table volume, and reach the operator menu behind the coin door — without reaching behind the cabinet for a keyboard.

Nothing is copied to your device and nothing goes to a cloud. Your library stays on the cabinet; you are looking at it from wherever you are.

OpsLink

Add tablesTables, backglasses and packages Import

Library · 14

Search 14 tables

All 14 ★ Favourites 1

Cactus Canyonby ninuzzu & tom tower

Cirqus Voltaireby Knorr, ClarkKent…

F-14 TomcatWilliams · 1987

Cab1 Playing Library Settings

Where things stand

vPinOps runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. The wheel, import, screens, OpsLink and your library all work the same on all three, and a table you set up on one machine works on the others.

Two things are not on Linux yet:

Video playback	A surface with a video shows its still image instead. Everything else about media is the same
Steam games	Pinball FX and Pinball FX Midnight are Windows and macOS today

⚠ There is also one Visual Pinball issue on Linux, not a vPinOps one: on Wayland a table will not start until you click the playfield. What to do about it.

There is no installer yet — vPinOps is a folder you copy. The full picture is on the roadmap.