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  3. Posted · Edited by hcmffm

    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...

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    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.

  6. Posted · Edited by hcmffm

    FYI to all those asking for a VecFever, TomSon replied to a PM of mine saying he is out and may or may not make more in the future. Looks like this project is on hiatus for a while!

    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.

     

    In addition, Richard isnt making the VecMulti anymore either. :(

    Right, no good. :-) ATM, the only option for a flashable cartridge is Mateos multicartridge.

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    that guy is obviously just jealous, I'd like to see him do better? ;)

    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.

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  11. Posted

    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!

  12. Posted

    I don't know why Web Wars is being played. We pulled that one in one of the first tournaments because a player can play at the slowest speed possible and never be forced to progress through the game while racking up big points.

    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

  14. Posted · Edited by hcmffm

    I suspect with the upcoming VecFever cartridge, people are going to be buying that instead, but really depends on the price. We have no idea on that yet. If it's double the VecMulti, then it's probably viable to make more.

    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:

    ...

    Doesn't make much sense for me to do any further developing if I cannot test on a real Vectrex.

    ...

    I cross my fingers that flashable cartridges will remain available for the coming years - best option would be both VecMulti and VecFever.

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    I've just sold the very last one ever.

    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?

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    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.

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  19. Posted

    These scans are Bitchin! I love how high res and perfect they look!

    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.

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  20. Posted · Edited by hcmffm

    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.

  21. Posted · Edited by hcmffm

    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

     

    ... Is there an overlay for emulators for Koko's Retribution (this is the one that was linked to me) and Vectrexians (assuming that you could download the latter for free, though I doubt it, and if you can't, then never mind).

    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.

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  22. Posted

    Bitmap graphics or pseudo-bitmap graphics?

     

    To my knowledge, there's no way that an X-Y vector monitor can scan actual raster graphics.

    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.)

  25. Posted

    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.

     

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