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24th February 2022 – Vide 2.6 RC 3

Just a small notification, that a new release candidate of Vide made its appearance on the download page.

By Malban | February 24, 2022 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment |
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23th February 2022 Telengard(7) Resource limits

23th February 2022 Telengard(7) Resource limits

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) –…

By Malban | February 23, 2022 | Uncategorized | No Comments |
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20th February 2022 Telengard(6) Display limits

20th February 2022 Telengard(6) Display limits

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…

By Malban | February 20, 2022 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment |
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20th of February 2022 Telengard(5) – Vectors

20th of February 2022 Telengard(5) – Vectors

#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…

By Malban | February 20, 2022 | Uncategorized | 5 Comments |
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18th February 2022 – Telengard(4)

18th February 2022 – Telengard(4)

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…

By Malban | February 17, 2022 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments |
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10th February 2022 – Telengard(3)

10th February 2022 – Telengard(3)

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…

By Malban | February 10, 2022 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments |
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28th December 2021 – Telengard – some more.

28th December 2021 – Telengard – some more.

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…

By Malban | December 28, 2021 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments |
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22th of December PiTrex small update

22th of December PiTrex small update

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…

By Malban | December 21, 2021 | Uncategorized | 9 Comments |
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14th of December PiTrex 0+2

14th of December PiTrex 0+2

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”.…

By Malban | December 14, 2021 | Uncategorized | 4 Comments |
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November 29th 2021 – Raspberry Pi Zero 2

November 29th 2021 – Raspberry Pi Zero 2

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. It have been…

By Malban | November 29, 2021 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments |
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