Over 4 years ago Pix started VecAkalabeth using the Vectrex32 BASIC cart. He finished the project and VecAkalabeth can be played… although the newest version was not made public yet – since the first versions of this will be part…
If you followed the last week of Vectorblade beta tests in the forum, you might have read about Peers “special” Vectrex. It was special in the way, that it crashed playing Vectorblade (- or more precisely during startup). We pinned…
I have the sources lying around… they are based on the “old” particles… this time just some fireworks. If started, you see a blank screen, button 1 fires a firework missile. ParticelSystemFire.zip (vide project) I made use of the fireworks…
I just remembered a thing about “Random” which I encountered a short time ago, which might be worth to mention. When playing around with Shongololo, one of the tasks was to draw random Shrooms on the screen. For that I…
I pondered a bit whether to write a blog entry for this. But since the other possible Vectrex “work” would be getting on with Vectorblade – I’ll write a few sentences (Buhuuuu). On FB the question came up, whether a…
Again – I did pause on VB. I was – again – a bit sickly AND had a short holiday trip.Now after the trip some Vectrex things have come up, which I probably will do in advance befor doing further…
You know – sometimes I wish Vectrex was a more “modern” machine. Modern in the sense of “every Vectrex behaves the same”. I recently rediscovered, that not all Vectrex are equal – some are more equal, and some are even…
I was asked for some optimization hints for a “C” project. I made a video of some of my findings. See link below. Some additional points: “dp_” only really works for VIA IO ports (and BIOS RAM locations), since these…
Today for the first time in a month I did some “Vectrex”. I had a nice holiday, nice XMas and a not so nice little illness.But today – I fired up a Vectrex again! First I did a tiny little…
No text, “just” a video and a download :-). ParticleSystem.zip (34kB)