Something I wanted to do for a long time now.It was supposed to be easy and only take a couple of hours.Hahaha! ROFL! LOL!Yes sure! How wrong can I be? It took me 2 weeks to get to the stage…
23rd May 2025 PiTrex – part 3 VTerm
23rd May 2025 PiTrex – part 2 Lunar Lander
Lunar Lander – PiTrex / VecSimIn the light of a new Controller, conceived an realized by Sean Ferigan (Facebook group Vectrex Fans Unite), I started updating the Lunar Lander emulation used in PiTrex (based on Vec Sim). Photo stolen from…
23rd May 2025 PiTrex – part 1
Following are updates I made to PiTrex over the last year.I mentioned some of them on Brett’s Discord, on Facebook, or in the mailing list – but not on my website.These are very general changes over the last few years,…
Two years gone by… what the…?
What happened? Why did I not update “Vectrex” anymore? Answer: Nothing major—really.I always had other interests, and my Vectrex hobby went a little into the background.I still programmed Vectrex. I still helped other people out, answered questions. I still updated…
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…
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”.…
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. I have been…
20th of November 2021 – Vectrex things…
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…
2nd of May 2021 – Init_Sound
I said my next “immediate” todos were to add sound stuff in BASIC. Half done – this took surprisingly much longer than anticipated. I am not going to write too much about it. But if interested, this is a working…
30th of April 2021 Porting GS BASIC – to PiTrex (9)
Ok. Yes. I will not say again, that I did not do anything wrong… (I probably will though). PiTrex GS BASIC is looking good today! For now I think everything is working. I should probably not look again at it…