Jess Ragan Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 http://revivalstudios.blogspot.com/2008/08...ic-updated.html Check out this post from Martijn Wenting, creator of several Vectrex homebrew games and the upcoming VexOS operating system: I've been able to spend some time on VexOS and VexosBASIC again. As a result, i managed to resolve the musicplayer issues, but i still have troubles finding a proper packing routine for the songs. Songs are generally 50-100kb in size, and need to be compressed to ideally about 16kb or less. Current packing methods (i tried 3 different methods so far) give me about 20-40kb for each song, making a lot of songs unsuitable for the vectrex (with about a 24kb limit for data). As for VexosBASIC, i've been able to do a bunch of updates, these include: - RECT and CIRCLE draw functions - DRAWSHAPE function to draw vexosbasic shapedata (which can be exported by vectorpaint) - DRAWBITMAP function - CHECKCOLLISION function - Handling of DATA segments - Various small fixes With these last updates, everyone should be able to make proper games for it. In theory you should be able to create almost every type of game you like now. VexosBasic is now open for people willing to beta-test. And if you create something nice with it, i will feature it on the upcoming vexosbasic website. Oh yeah, I am totally up for that. I've been wanting to make Vectrex games for as long as I've had the system; perhaps even longer. This could turn out to be the most exciting development in classic gaming since Batari BASIC! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Ragan Posted September 18, 2008 Author Share Posted September 18, 2008 Nobody's interested in this? Nobody at all? I keep posting information about this and all I get are crickets. Let's show some enthusiasm, people! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uosipa llamxew Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 This is fantastic news! I'll definitely tinker with it some... I'd be thrilled if I could get a simple game going on my Vectrex! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mos6507 Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 I'm interested in it. Is it ready yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrromine Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 is there a download link for a compiler? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50TBRD Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 It was never released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledzep Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Nobody's interested in this? Nobody at all? I keep posting information about this and all I get are crickets. Let's show some enthusiasm, people! Oh, I'm interested, I just keep forgetting that there is now a dedicated Vectrex area in AtariAge! Looking forward to this. I mean, I do want to learn assembler and make a game the "proper" way but this is cool, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Martijn was hoping to still release it at some point, when I spoke to him fairly recently. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superphamicom Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Hi, long time Vectrex owner (got mine at CGE early 2000's) new to this board. Count me in as an interested user/tester for VexOS! What a great idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie1974 Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 me 2 im interested Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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