This game is getting bigger and bigger.I am nearly done – all features are in, most graphics and all gameplay. But no sounds yet. I am pretty close to 60kB rom. I didn’t do anything extraordinary or fancy (yet) –…
This is the current display limit with Telengard – I am at 29356 cycles.I would have loved to do a fourth status line (as original) – but with all the possible rest that is going on.– light spell (questionmark in…
#define GNOLL 0 #define KOBOLD 1 #define SKELETON 2 #define HOBBIT 3 #define ZOMBIE 4 #define ORC 5 #define FIGHTER 6 #define MUMMY 7 #define ELF 8 #define GHOUL 9 #define DWARF 10 #define TROLL 11 #define WRAITH 12 #define…
I am still going strong with “Telengard”. I transcoded nearly the complete game – only a few lines are remaining. Although I started up Vecci – I have as yet not implemented any graphics into the game. The code alone…
Since my last blog entry … I played thru Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3.I played thru Horizon Zero Dawn 2 1/2 times (great game).I played thru 4-5 Visual Novels. Three days ago I decided…
I’m visiting the baltic sea again – and that means I get to do some stuff that I don’t do at home. In this case my laptop (without any vectrex connection), Vide and I are trying to revisit Telengard. In…
22th of December 2021 small changed / bugfixesVectorblade did not start anymoreVecmania had “problems” with joystick access 21th of December 2021 some days ago, fixed bankswitching in vectrex emulator for 64k added options to invert joystick y-direction (common ini)(each individual…
The new SD image works for PiZero and PiZero2.(Sources on github are also up to date: github.com: pitrex-baremetal) PiZero or PiZero2? If you have the choice, than get a PiZero (not 2).There is no noticable speed difference concerning “vectrex work”.…
This is a write up of my latest experiences using a multi core setup to speed up PiTrex. I write it down here again, so there is a spot where I may find it for future references. I have been…
Telengard I still am intrigued by “old” games I played as a kid on my c64.One of those games was Telengard. I think it would be possible to convert that title to the vectrex – just for the fun of…