Hey, Vectrex fans!

[Jess Ragan]

You're gonna love this.

 

 

http://www.vectrex.org.uk/roboclone.html

 

I had no idea that a Vectrex version of Robotron was even being made. If it's ever finished, it'll go nicely with Alex Herbert's conversion of Defender. Who knows? Maybe someone will even design a Sinistar clone for the system!

 

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[Cootster]

What about Blaster?

[Rob Mitchell]

Wow! I knew about Mark Robson's VecRAM cart support site .. but I had no idea that he was working on a game! Here's hoping that he finishes it!

 

Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA

[christianscott27]

mmm vectrex sinistar i would just love to hear "I HUNGER" come crackling out the vec. extra bright little sinibombs...ok i want this and that time pilot clone somebody was working on, NOW.

[moycon]

Oooo That Time Pilot game looked sweet! It still amazes me how awesomely close the Vectrex sounds like the actual arcade game.

From what I heard though the guy who was working on it sort of dropped off the face of the earth. So sad.

 

I agree though Sinistar would rock.

 

I LIVE... ARRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!

[Jess Ragan]

Not to spread rumors, buuut I heard from a certain high-profile Vectrex game designer that a great Sinistar conversion may be feasible if he can work the kinks out of the system's quirky sound chip. I can't give you too much info on this, but it's food for thought.

 

JR

[Rob Mitchell]

Not to spread rumors, buuut I heard from a certain high-profile Vectrex game designer that a great Sinistar conversion may be feasible if he can work the kinks out of the system's quirky sound chip.  I can't give you too much info on this, but it's food for thought.

 

Name? quirky is not the way I would describe it .. actually it is from the same chip family as those used in arcades in the early 80s! Programmers get some dead on arcade jsounds out of it!

 

Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA

[Jess Ragan]

Not sure if I should tell you his name. He didn't tell me to keep this information under my hat, but at the same time, he didn't NOT tell me to keep it quiet, either. Let me talk to him before I give out any more info.

 

JR

[dgo]

mmm vectrex sinistar  i would just love to hear "I HUNGER" come crackling out the vec. extra bright little sinibombs...ok i want this and that time pilot clone somebody was working on, NOW.

 

Time Pilot??

 

where, where, where.....?? tell me!

[Atariboy2600]

The Empire Strikes Back!

 

Plus some was making Star Wars Arcade but it was never done making it, any news on that game?

[Jess Ragan]

There was Star Fire Spirits, by John Dondzila. That's probably as close as you'll get to a conversion of the Star Wars coin-op.

 

I'm curious to see if I can hobble something together using the Vectrex C compiler and other utilities created by Chris Tumber. It probably wouldn't be anywhere near the quality of any of the other homebrews for the system, but it might be fun to give it the old college try.

 

JR

[christianscott27]

Time Pilot??  

 

where, where, where.....?? tell me!

 

just did a google groups search for the lastest info on this game, turns out the last post on the subject was by me over a year ago

 

i heard from dp joe once that the guy doing it was not gonna finish it. well you can always hope.

[Rob Mitchell]

Re: Time Pilot

 

No word from Kristof .. in 2 years!

 

Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA