r/Vectrex

Hi everyone!

I was told by the guys over at r/tron that ya'll may enjoy this. Recently, I developed a version of SPACE PARANOIDS from the movie TRON. ( see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUXj4w4nze0 ) ...It is inspired by the arcade games of the era (Battlezone, Asteroids, Berzerk) and has gotten to be quite popular within the TRON fanbase. That said, I've gotten hundreds asking for a VECTREX/PiTrex port of the game....and so here's some of the first footage of a running build compiled for the PiTrex architecture, running on Vectrex Studio. ( see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZODLRPkNJs ) ...I (sadly) don't own the original hardware, and have no way of testing whether or not this image works on a real PiTrex cart. However, this is what the emulator is showing me, so I would imagine it would be relatively similar on the actual hardware. All of my development has been based on what I've read about the VECTREX, so if anyone has any tips or would like to test it when it gets a bit more finished, I'd be very grateful!

Cheers,

Landon

Wach me fail at level one on scramble usig an xbox controller on my old ipad with ios 17 using the vactrex emulator for ios, wonder if we can make our own vextrex mini with old ipads, any 3d printer guy that can help?

https://youtu.be/o00ct_iAOBY?si=c1UI8Mj78L03Go63

Native ARM on the Vectrex - PiTrex vs. UVMC2 Compared https://vectrex.substack.com/p/native-arm-on-the-vectrex

Roger Boesch

Oct 4

"The Vectrex uses a 6809 running at 1.5 MHz and has just 1 KB of RAM; every game sold for it back then had to operate within those strict constraints.

An Awesome Piece of Tech: The PiTrex and the UVMC2

The PiTrex and the UVMC2 are currently the platform's most important hardware expansion cartridges. Both include an ARM chip on the cartridge that runs its own code and directly controls the vector beam, bypassing the Vectrex’s native 6809 CPU entirely. ..."

Red the rest at the link below.

Native ARM on the Vectrex - PiTrex vs. UVMC2 Compared https://vectrex.substack.com/p/native-arm-on-the-vectrex