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Firmware V2

Posted on 31. October 202010. March 2021

The new firmware is fundamentally different so let me take a step back and elaborate: For some time now the initial firmware was insufficient for my recent developments simply because it started as a Vectrex development system and was held back by the 6809 menu and design decisions based on it. By now I however…

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Vectrex serial port and the ‘Vector Terminal’ cart.

Posted on 4. October 20205. October 2020

For debugging purposes I sometimes use serial output so the vf has an accessible uart and I’ve build a few cart. which include a uart-usb pcb. At one point since the hw already existed I was wondering how to use this serial port also by the 6809. This 6809 serial implementation went through a few…

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Scopetrex & other, new Vectrex cpu pcbs / Firmware v1.31

Posted on 7. September 20205. October 2020

Lately several new Vectrex cpu pcbs have started appearing in order to see the Vectrex vector output on a wider variety of vector hardware. The Vectrex cpu pcb is very well suited to this – esp. the digital side is quite simple and the parts are even now still available – not always the exact…

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Vectrex: NMI

Posted on 26. August 2020

Well, this is rather odd but maybe a developer out there might find this useful one day: Someone who shall remain nameless was struggling to find an elusive and nasty bug which only happened after hours of gameplay on real hardware and asked me whether I could maybe override the reset vector so that he…

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Sidam Asterocks

Posted on 30. April 202030. April 2020

The Italian arcade manufacturer Sidam built quite a few dedicated, quite interesting bootleg cabinets of Ataris early games, including an Asteroids clone. The cabinet quality was excellent, I actually think they are as nice as the originals. However they were also quirky: Asterocks for example uses a control panel which tilts down towards the back,…

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2048 – 4K v1.2

Posted on 3. April 2020

A few years ago I have met the developers of a puzzle game for the C64 on local retro meetings and afterwards played it on my SX-64 while restoring it. That game is C-2048 by P1X3L.net (hi to ALeX and Retrofan !). I did not know the original by G.Cirulli and to this day have…

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Update: firmware v1.28 & all emulators updated

Posted on 19. March 2020

This is a massive update and the major milestone I was working towards for over a year now: dedicated Vectrex translations of all the released 8-bit vector arcade games running on the VecFever. The very last ones developed were the Z80-based ones – Midway’s ‘Omega Race’ and the Sega G80 vector hardware games (Star Trek…

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Atari Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back – the protection

Posted on 4. March 202024. May 2021

Whereas when tackling the original Atari ‘Star Wars’ vector game it was a pleasant challenge -create the necessary 6809 toolset, optimizations and Vectrex advancements for a great game I’d like to play- the work for ESB was different from the outset: I knew that even though it was released years later it was an inferior…

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Update: Warrior v1.3

Posted on 31. January 202021. February 2020

Vectrexmad! notified me of the ‘Reconstructing Warrior: Vectorbeams, Natural Magick & Business Intrigue’ paper by Thomas R. Rousse. Very interesting read – and one particular thing mentioned was that Outerworld Arcade’s Timothy Shiels created a Warrior romset for a custom four joystick control panel using four digital joysticks. If you do not know the story:…

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Update: firmware v1.26

Posted on 5. January 20205. January 2020

fix for Vectorblade (starting with v1.24 it became unstable on some Vectrex) and updated year to ‘2020’

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