Wobble / Flicker on the Vectrex! Newest scientific experiements show: The Vectrex creators were no shielding experts! Actually that is no news, and everybody that listened to a Vectrex already knew that. THE BUZZ!… of the vectrex proved that already.The…
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.
11th of May 2020 – Vide 2.6 RC01
Spreading my own resources a bit thin lately.a) Investigating the crash bug in Vectorblade still shows no resultsb) helping some other vectrex codersc) preparing a Vide release(d) playing games) Anyway – I have a new Vide Release candidate – it…
22nd of November 2019 – Gyrocks & Vide…
On facebook and some other media, there lately is some new talk about vector stuff. Be it the “old” V.st stuff (or new versions thereof) or possibly the even older ZVG (Zektor) card or the brand new, not available yet…
17th of March – Vide 2.12 RC02
Yea, yea – might be boring – but I have not more to tell, than that another RC is uploaded on the servers (filenames see below). Actually I could tell what the actual changes to last RC are: 1) some…
5th of March – Vide 2.12 RC01
Ok, that didn’t last long. Another Release Candidate. I fixed one bug and added some additional stuff Peer wanted to look at. Why is it so “difficult” to do a “native packaged” version? Actually the native packaging is just one…
4th of March – Software distribution/Release Candidate of Vide
I have always, ALWAYS hated dynamic link libraries, dylibs, shared objects and any related entities. There might have been a time where such things might have been sensible – to save some precious memory on your hard disk. But even…
4th of January – Spidex & optimization
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…
24th of November – New Vide version
Just some short info. a) I uploaded a new Vide version (2.10) with all recent changes/bugfixes. This is the first version, that needs Java 10 installed! b) following might become some highscore “edit” for Vectorblade: But obviously not finished yet.…
November 2nd – Sound samples revisited
I haven’t done anything specifically related to Vectorblade for over a months now. I am thinking about stuff to “fill” it up a little more besides pure gameplay. Little stuff that will make a complete “round” package. You have seen…