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…
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…
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…
AAAAAAHHHHHRRRGGGG!!!!! Today I have been chewing on my keyboard. Two “dumb” incidents cost me HOURS to track down. I started today with adding new commands to Vectrex32 BASIC – mainly “camera”, “rotation”, 3d” etc. In the image above you can…
Today was a much better day than yesterday. I threw all stuff away that I did yesterday, started fresh and implemented the command list and a bunch of BASIC functions. My goal was to actually get “Lunar” running today. After…
I will not say today was “wasted” – since again I learned quite a lot. But on the other hand despite the image saying otherwise – I am nearly at same stage as yesterday. Yes, what you see in the…