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<h1>Download PinReady</h1>
<p class="lead">PinReady is a single program file: download the one for your system, extract it and start it.
There is nothing to install. These links always point to the latest release.</p>
<div class="table"><table class="dl"><thead><tr><th>System</th><th>Download</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Linux</strong><br><span class="muted">PC with an Intel or AMD 64-bit processor (x86_64)</span></td><td><a class="btn" href="https://github.com/Le-Syl21/PinReady/releases/latest/download/pinready-linux-x86_64.tar.gz">pinready-linux-x86_64.tar.gz</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Linux</strong><br><span class="muted">ARM 64-bit processor (aarch64)</span></td><td><a class="btn" href="https://github.com/Le-Syl21/PinReady/releases/latest/download/pinready-linux-aarch64.tar.gz">pinready-linux-aarch64.tar.gz</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>macOS</strong><br><span class="muted">Apple silicon Mac (M-series chip)</span></td><td><a class="btn" href="https://github.com/Le-Syl21/PinReady/releases/latest/download/pinready-macos-aarch64.tar.gz">pinready-macos-aarch64.tar.gz</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>macOS</strong><br><span class="muted">Intel Mac</span></td><td><a class="btn" href="https://github.com/Le-Syl21/PinReady/releases/latest/download/pinready-macos-x86_64.tar.gz">pinready-macos-x86_64.tar.gz</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Windows</strong><br><span class="muted">64-bit Windows PC (x86_64)</span></td><td><a class="btn" href="https://github.com/Le-Syl21/PinReady/releases/latest/download/pinready-windows-x86_64.zip">pinready-windows-x86_64.zip</a></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
<p>Release notes and older versions: <a href="https://github.com/Le-Syl21/PinReady/releases">all releases on GitHub</a>.</p>
<h2>Start it</h2>
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<li><strong>Windows</strong>: extract the zip, then double-click <code>pinready.exe</code>.</li>
<li><strong>Linux</strong>: extract the archive and start the program from its folder:
<pre><code>tar xzf pinready-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
./pinready</code></pre></li>
<li><strong>macOS</strong>: extract the archive and start the program from the Terminal:
<pre><code>tar xzf pinready-macos-aarch64.tar.gz
./pinready</code></pre></li>
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<p>The Windows program is digitally signed, and the macOS programs are signed and notarized with Apple. The macOS
builds target macOS 11 or later.</p>
<p>The first start opens the <a href="wizard.html">setup wizard</a>; the following ones open the
<a href="launcher.html">table launcher</a>.</p>
<h2>What you need</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Visual Pinball X 10.8.1 or later.</strong> PinReady can install it for you, or use a copy you installed
yourself.</li>
<li><strong>A tables folder</strong> using the 10.8.1 layout, one folder per table. PinReady can help you get there:
see <a href="wizard.html#tables">the Tables page of the wizard</a>.</li>
<li><strong>An Internet connection</strong> for the automatic Visual Pinball install and the update checks. It is
optional if you install Visual Pinball yourself.</li>
</ul>
<p>There are no libraries to install: SDL3 and SQLite are built into PinReady.</p>
<h2 id="vpx">Installing Visual Pinball</h2>
<p>The first page of the wizard offers two choices:</p>
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<li><strong>Install automatically (recommended)</strong> downloads and installs a recent build of the Visual Pinball
X fork tested with PinReady, from <a href="https://github.com/Le-Syl21/vpinball">Le-Syl21/vpinball</a>. This is not the official VPX build. It
picks the build for your system, including builds for Raspberry Pi and RK3588 boards on ARM Linux. You choose the
installation folder.</li>
<li><strong>I already have Visual Pinball</strong> uses a copy you installed yourself: point PinReady to the
<code>VPinballX_BGFX</code> program.</li>
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<p>The automatic install is tested on Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04 LTS (GNOME) and on Windows 11, with 4 screens. The
official Visual Pinball project lives at <a href="https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball">vpinball/vpinball</a>.</p>
<h2>Updates</h2>
<p>At startup PinReady checks whether a new build of Visual Pinball or a new version of PinReady is out. When one
is, an update button appears in the launcher: one click downloads it and installs it.</p>
<h2 id="files">Where files go</h2>
<p>The folders are found automatically; you do not need to create them.</p>
<div class="table"><table class="paths"><thead><tr><th>What</th><th>Linux</th><th>macOS</th><th>Windows</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Visual Pinball settings (read and written by PinReady)</td><td><code>~/.local/share/VPinballX/10.8/VPinballX.ini</code></td><td><code>~/Library/Application Support/VPinballX/10.8/VPinballX.ini</code></td><td><code>%APPDATA%\VPinballX\10.8\VPinballX.ini</code></td></tr><tr><td>PinReady database and log</td><td><code>~/.local/share/pinready/</code></td><td><code>~/Library/Application Support/pinready/</code></td><td><code>%APPDATA%\pinready\</code></td></tr><tr><td>DOF configuration (extract the VPUniverse zip here)</td><td><code>~/.local/share/VPinballX/10.8/directoutputconfig/</code></td><td><code>~/Library/Application Support/VPinballX/10.8/directoutputconfig/</code></td><td><code>%APPDATA%\VPinballX\10.8\directoutputconfig\</code></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
<h2>Build from source</h2>
<p>PinReady is written in Rust. On Linux (Debian or Ubuntu), install the build tools first:</p>
<pre><code>sudo apt install build-essential cmake pkg-config \
libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev \
libxkbcommon-dev libssl-dev
cargo build --release</code></pre>
<p>On macOS and Windows, <code>cargo build --release</code> is enough. SDL3 and SQLite are compiled from source
automatically. The program lands in <code>target/release/</code>.</p>
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