Thanks to Kristof’s extraordinary VPatrol – Vide is getting better and better. New eEprom emulation pending, have to read up on that one… Buy it – it’s worth every penny!
15th of January -VPatrol
14th of January 2018 – Finale!
A few days ago I sent Karl Quappe on his journey around the world – in 16 incarnations he will visit 6 countries. What I mean by that – Karl Quappe is finished. I got all overlays and all…
30th of December 2017 – very fast vector draw (demo)
Last couple of days I experimented (again) with high performance vector drawing routines. The result you can see as a “demo” in the video below: – up to 70 objects visible at the same time – they are moving –…
2 – 29th of December 2017 – Public RC Vide 2.0 again!
Hi folks, that didn’t take long – did it? Two updates on the same day… one last night (after midnight) and one this evening. The thing is Peer suprised me with a huge update of the “C”-BIOS headers. I updated…
29th of December 2017 – Public RC Vide 2.0
Today I make the first public version of Vide 2.0 available – Release Candidate 15. As the naming suggests there have been quite a lot of RCs before – and there still might be some to follow. I hope…
21st of December – cycle measurement in Vide
In General At the end of your programming phase often you’d like to measure the speed of your program – at least I do, since often my goal is to keep everything within 50Hz. In Vide my tool of choice…
12th December 2017 – Menschenjagd – again!
I am not groing to write much today – I again did a video. This is more an ad than a blog entry – but I rather like what “Der Luchs” produced so far for his new (older) game!…
28th of November – Collision detection
As mentioned in my last post – “der Luchs” is (re-) programming his game “Menschenjagd”. We met at an event last month and came to talk to each other. One thing led to another and he asked my opinion about…
26th of November 2017: Prototypes and Release candidates…
Lets start of with “C”! C – as in the Language, but also C as in the “C”ount. “The Count” is a game being written by Prof. Dr. Peer Johannsen (See also link to his own page about the –…
8th of November – 19″ Monitor!
Hi, just to let you guys know – today I was able to get my new 19 inch monitor working! There are still 2 capacitors I have to change on the vectrex mainboard to get a larger picture – but…