Only a video again this time. Haven’t had as much time as I would have liked on my hand. Started “Scooper” Bonus… Video: Malban
21st of March Vectorblade V – Bullet madness!
18th of March 2018 Vectorblade IV
(see also: Vectrex Project) I decided two blogs on one subject (all things Vectrex) might be to much and confusing. For the time being I will update the Vide blog also with the progress on Vectorblade. If you “missed” the…
3rd of March 2018 – Menschenjagd – Final (perhaps)!
Since I was video’ing anyway – here the (maybe) final version of Menschenjagd played by me:
2nd of March 2018 – Rocks and Saucers – Deluxe!
Hi folks… Just a short little notice – that Thomas finished his next game – Rocks and Saucers – Deluxe! There seems to be a slight similarity to Asteroids Deluxe – but I am sure this is purely coincidental. Anyways…
20th of February 2018 – VPatrol ingenuity – addendum
I have been in contact with Kristof and he reminded me of one fact which I did not mention clearly. The calibration he does using the ZeroRef can only compensate correctly ONE dimension of drift at one time. The drift…
6th of February 2018 – VPatrol ingenuity part III
If you played VPatrol – you know what that is. I personally think it represents a glider taken from a TV series called “Space: 1999” (German: “Mondbasis Alpha 1”). That glider is part of the calibration routine within VPatrol. You…
30th of January 2018 – Unfinished Tales
I am sure every programmer has these in his drawer somewhere. Here are some of mine: Laby A project started after I finished VFrogger – about 20 years ago. Supposed to be a rogue like on vectrex. Featuring: a smooth…
25th of January 2018 – VPatrol ingenuity part II
This is an image of the interior of my VPatrol card. Today I would like to concentrate on the upper left corner: That is the eEprom Kristof uses to store calibration information, high scores, acchievments and options. You might say…
25th of Janurary 2018 – VPatrol ingenuity part I
The last days (since I got it) I have been looking at VPatrol. I played it a lot – and also examined it a lot. Its a wonderful game – which really goes to the limit of what the vectrex…
18th of January 2018 – 100 (one hundred)
If you use “artistic freedom” – you can also do 100 objects in 50Hz: “InMove” we have about 8000 cycles left for “gameplay” – whatever that might be… Malban