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Until now, 13 players have submitted scores. Vector War has just started and will end on Saturday - still enough time to play and participate...

Vector War VIII is on. Good luck and fun to all participants!

In this year's Vector War players can win several pretty special prizes: Prize A: Mystery prize 1: A full physical, rare edition of a game. Prize B: Mystery prize 2: A full physical, rare edition of a game. Prize C: Boxed copy of Stramash Zone Prize D: Collector Edition of Bloxorz Prize E: The Machinist's Vectrex visual upgrade kit (donated by Tony Lindberg) There will be two random prizes, so any participant who qualified can win. See the Vectorgaming forum for more details and info about the Vector War and the prizes. About 10 hours till Vector War VIII starts...

Thank you for your initiating the Vector War and passing the organisation of the Vector War on to me, Rob! Looking at the statistics it's likely that In Vector IX or X Star Castle will be played - perhaps a good opportunity for you to participate, too.

Soon, the Vector War VIII will start. The Vector War is an international Vectrex tournament initiated in 2011 by Rob Maerz. This year's Vector War VIII will take place from Sat 10th Nov - Sat 17th November. Both beginner and expert Vectrex players are invited to participate. Have fun and compete with other Vectrex players all over the world! You can even win prizes! You'll find more information in the Vector gamingforum.

Would be interesting to know how many VecFevers have been produced and shipped to people. A pity that excellent games like Dodge 'Em, Robot Arena, and The Core which are part of the VecFever are available to some people, only. Right, no good. :-) ATM, the only option for a flashable cartridge is Mateos multicartridge.

You should have gotten my copy of Stramash Zone, I've #31. Thank you very much, Jim (clockworkrobot), for this excellent game!

Hmm, is this supposed to be a joke? "That guy" implemented V-Frogger, Karl Quappe (update of Frogger), Release!, and VIDE (Integrated Development Environment for the Vectrex). Hellhole is crap both from player's perspective and technical perspective. Fullstop.

I guess most people here know, already: The impressive Robot Arena developed by Thomas Sontowski is a Robotron 2084-like game on the Vectrex. See topic New Homebrew: Robot Arena by Thomas Sontowski for more details.

I don't have an answer but two links: • Vectrex? Reply of iesposta • Looking to purchase a Vectrex, have some questions

Vector War VII is over. The final standings of Vector War VII are: 1. coleco1981 (86,85%) 2. VectorX (82,03%) 3. Chainsaw (79,67%) 4. Malban (78,73%) 5. thomas (73,64%) 6. jbrodack (43,23%) 7. hcmffm (40,93%) 8. fmml (39,52%) 9. Fruktodlaren (34,73%) 10. Lady Eklipse (33,05%) 11. 50tbrd (31,81%) 12. D-Type (21,12%) It was an exciting and challenging competition with very high scores. Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all who participated!

Right, you can score as high as you want in Web Wars. Though, the number of trophies will count - not the score. Maximum is 20 trophies because succeeding trophies are invisible. See: http://vectorgaming.proboards.com/thread/2008/vectrex-tournament-vector-28th-2017#ixzz4vu3JFoki

Where ist the "Dislike This" button? That's really sad and bad news.

Right. And Richard provided (and hopefully continues providing) his hardware for years and years. This continuity and reliability is a blessing for the Vectrex community. Please note that a multi-cartridge (e.g. Sean Kelly multi-cartridge) and a flashable cartridge (e.g. VecFlash, VecMulti, and VecFever) are two different pairs of shoes: Multicartridges provide a given set of games while on a flashable cartridge you can put any binaries that you want. Both multi-cartridges and flashable cartridge are interesting for players and collectors; in addition flashable cartridge are great and important for software developers and alpha/beta testers and anyone who wants to play downloadable & free homebrew games. Michael Bormanns's (developer of VecFu) very recent post in the Vectorgaming Forum clearly shows the importance of the availability of flashable cartridges: I cross my fingers that flashable cartridges will remain available for the coming years - best option would be both VecMulti and VecFever.

As written in various e-mails your VecMulti is a very important piece in the Vectrex puzzle - both for players and collectors. We are all very thankful for that it is available for a reasonable price. You don't want to say that there won't be VecMultis anymore, Richard?

Franck, the author of ParaJVE had been open to suggestions and nice to communicate with when I contacted him years ago. Please contact Franck (parabellum) and point him to this brightness defect. Alternatively, you can post here and I'll can contact him.

That's excellent work, Leonardo!

Sure. I've just sent you a PM, Richard.

Thanks for your positive feedback, adamchevy. I guess you refer to my Vectrex Manuals². These "scans" are manual vectorizations, this is why quality is that high. By now, 11 Vectrex manual²s are completed, I'd expect about 2 more years till all of them are vectorized.

The GCE binaries are can be downloaded in the web, for example here. Please note that the GCE binaries have a special licence given by Jay Smith. EDIT: At first I misunderstood your post. FAIK, Mateos has such a hardware to download the code from a ROM.

Which Vectrex emulator did you try out? I recommend ParaJVE. ParaJVE comes with all the original Vectrex titles and overlays included and has various gimmicks like chassis display, zooming with mouse wheel, and vector glow. Download-Link is: http://www.vectrex.fr/ParaJVE/ If you are really keen, you can create an overlay yourself (e.g. for Koko's revenge) and use it in ParaJVE. A short description is here: http://vectorgaming.proboards.com/thread/330/parajve-overlays Like with most emulators, you can run any binary with ParaJVE including Koko's Retribution and Vectrexians Demo. The Vectrexians Demo is an incomplete demo version of Vectrexians, it's o.k. to get an idea of the game; if you like the game you really should buy the Vectrexians from Kristof Tuts original which comes with a box, overlay, and manual. http://kristofsnewvectrexgames.comli.com/Before ordering Vectrexians make sure you have a look at Vector Pilot which is another excellent game of Kristof Tuts.

FAIK, the Vectrex can draw vectors, only. Using vector drawing it can draw graphics that are made out of pixels (e.g. most text on the Vectrex consists of characters made out of pixels). I'd call this "bitmap graphics drawn by a vector beam". Some experienced developers like Alex Herbert, Martijn Wenting or Kristof Tuts use this bitmap technique for objects in their games. (The monitor of the Vectrex has no raster/pixels in the phosphor but old b/w TVs hadn't a raster, either. A raster in the phosphor was needed for colour TVs with various types of phosphor for the three colours RGB next to each other.)

This bag even keeps your cool Vectrex cool. Thanks for the link!

Please note that Protector/Y.A.S.I. and many other homebrew games are produced and sold by Packrat Video Games, again. Packrat Video Games continues the Vectrex homebrew production of John Donzila who stopped production a longer time ago. So no need to spend hundreds of dollars to play Protector or Y.A.S.I....

The Vector War is an international Vectrex tournament initiated in 2011 by Rob Maerz. This year's Vector War V will take place from Fr 30st Nov - Sat 7th November. Both beginner and expert Vectrex players are invited to participate. Have fun and compete with other Vectrex players all over the world! You can even win prizes! Please find further info and rules in the Vectorgaming forum. Please note that 1st November is the Play Your Vectrex Day - so you can play for the Vector War and simply post your games played to join the Play Your Vectrex Day.