AltRN8 Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Not sure if this will help or not but one of the issues I’ve seen with prepping and cards on Macs is all the extra dot files the Mac leaves behind. I’ve had a number of flash carts and home brew devices choke if those files are there. My belief is the code uses to parse the fat file system can’t handle the existence of the dot files. Once I remove them via command line everything has worked okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 This is what Richard sent to me: Quote Unfortunately the VecMulti won't work on a Mac either, as it requires a menu packer (written for PC) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playvectrex Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 If you have a USB to Serial adapter (CP2104 used in this example): maybe give this a try https://github.com/nanoflite/vecmulti 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZXRenew Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 On 4/3/2020 at 4:03 PM, Richard H. said: Just built another batch if anyone wants one ? PM Sent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+StaxX28 Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 @Richard H. Look your PM, please ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard H. Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 Did you PM me here ? (it's not come through) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+StaxX28 Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 Yes, here on Atariage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottPeltz Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 If you still have any VecMulti available, how much are they shipped to the US? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProAtari Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Is there still a waiting list? If so, can I please get put on it? Otherwise, where is the order form? Thank you for your time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunn Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 On 6/15/2020 at 1:49 PM, Richard H. said: Did you PM me here ? (it's not come through) I would like to order one, please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick3092 Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 I bought one of these a while back, and my Vectrex was sidelined until recently. Now that it's working (full recap and power switch cleaned), I'm able to use the cart. The menu seems really, really dim. Even though the brightness adjustment is set to play games at the ideal brightness. Once I launch a game, the brightness is fine. It's just really dim on the menu. Is this normal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmackin Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 On 8/19/2020 at 12:39 AM, nick3092 said: The menu seems really, really dim. Even though the brightness adjustment is set to play games at the ideal brightness. Once I launch a game, the brightness is fine. It's just really dim on the menu. Is this normal? The lower part of the menu listing the games is darker. From my point of view it looks correct, but you are blowing out the screen with whatever lighting your using in the photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick3092 Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 (edited) That's the insanely bright LED strip light over my work bench. I didn't even consider that was causing it to look so dim, as games looked fine under that light, it was just the menu. I moved it to a more naturally lit area and the menu looks much better now. Edited August 20, 2020 by nick3092 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Laser Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 would it be possible to make a 256KB version of Vectorblade that would work on the VecMulti? http://vide.malban.de/september-20th-vectorblade-v1-03 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Laser Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 anybody knows what this error means that i get when using the VecMulti card? also I'm not able to start some games that worked before, like Thrust Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Laser Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 with some roms that don't seem to work the light is blinking heavily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Laser Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 anybody got these roms working with the VecMulti? Every Day Is Halloween http://www.binarystarsoftware.com/?p=684 Thrust http://www.emix8.org/static.php?page=VectrexThrust Vectorblade, 4 file version http://vide.malban.de/september-20th-vectorblade-v1-03 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Laser Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 So, Vectorblade won't ever work… but I hope it's possible to get EDIH and Thrust running Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e5frog Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 (edited) Is there any reason EDIH and Thrust wouldn't work? 32kB isn't anything special, right? Vectorblade would probably require some modification of the VecMulti to run, maybe Richard will attempt it if there's more of these IRQ-banking games coming out. Malban has explained in detail how to do it though so it seems likely. Not that it would require a lot of extra circuitry to have more banks without the need of the IRQ line but it's a neat solution. I'm in-between Vectrexes at the moment, so I can't check. Edited October 2, 2020 by e5frog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8bitAndy Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 (edited) Thrust 1.01 works on my VecMulti. I believe the rom came on the SD card when I bought it. I just tried Thrust 1.2 from http://www.emix8.org/static.php?page=VectrexThrust and it does not work on my VecMulti either. Thrust 1.01 is attached if anyone is interested in it. Thrust101.bin Edited October 2, 2020 by 8bitAndy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e5frog Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 (edited) V1.2 misses two bytes at the end to be an even 32KiB. Could be the reason. EDIT: When running ROM_patcher.exe (VecFlash ROM Patcher Version 0.2) that comes with VecMulti: https://www.vectrex.biz/VFRP.zip It patches DCNTRL but doesn't seem to do anything about the size - don't know if size makes any difference. Edited October 3, 2020 by e5frog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Laser Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 (edited) thanks for the feedback! Does somebody know what the ROM_patcher.exe is doing? unfortunately, I can't use it. It would also be great to get the final version of Bloxorz running. It's such a great puzzle game for the Vectrex Bloxorz.bin Edited October 3, 2020 by Dieter Laser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Laser Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 24 minutes ago, e5frog said: When running ROM_patcher.exe (VecFlash ROM Patcher Version 0.2) that comes with VecMulti: https://www.vectrex.biz/VFRP.zip thanks a lot man, this version also doesn't work on my pc. i tried the other version on two windows pc's and got the same error. so, i will need to figure out how to get this running. i already tried something, but it didn't work. will test some more… hmm, could you do me a favour and patch these 3? and upload them i will try them out then VGames.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e5frog Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 Try it, see if it helps. VGames_VecFlash_patched.zip 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Laser Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 OMG! Tack! they all work now! You are the best, man. I just got quarantined, because some stupid people came to work with a cold and got tested positive afterwards, so this is the best present ever. I will get tested on monday, I don't think I have it, but I'm still locked up. I know what I will be doing now! Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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