VectrexMini
As some may know – I am writing the “emulator” side of the Vectrex Mini. It is late today – so not much text. But some screens may say more then a thousand words. Yes – Overlays can also be…
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Old News – Fast Move!
Peer Johannsen was given the opportunity to examine a collection of disks from the golden era of the Vectrex. One thing that caught his eye—and has always been a mystery to Vectrex fans—was BASIC. Back in the day, there were…
1st September 2025 – Arcadia is calling
The last couple of days I have bought several things to make my room more arcadey.A couple of years ago I built myself a MAME cabinet—but that thing was a “monster” dimension-wise. I put money (a beautiful monitor) and effort…
23rd August 2025 GamesCom – Vectrex “mini”
I love the mini Vectrex already. It is irrational.I have always been a Vectrex fan – I have seven “real” Vectrex here. With me. Now. In this tiny room of about 16 square meters.(Ok – I also have about 30…
29th of June 2025
A small update on “things”. TempestI started collecting information about tempest (see also: Tempest), added in game information and callbacks. Added two “sounds” as proof of concept.Many more things left todo – as implementing the spinner – I just need…
10th of June 2025 – Raspberry Pi 5
For diverse reasons I have been playing with a Raspberry Pi 5 lately. What a lovely little device! So small, so fast! I could not help myself and installed Vide on it – one never knows when one wants to…
27th of May 2025 – Number crunching
In regard to my last post – which, after making the video, I somehow never completed… One of the cruxes of VTerm was the relatively large amount of data (haha – “large amount” meaning one or two thousand bytes) that…
23rd May 2025 PiTrex – part 3 VTerm
Something I wanted to do for a long time now.It was supposed to be easy and only take a couple of hours.Hahaha! ROFL! LOL!Yes sure! How wrong can I be? It took me 2 weeks to get to the stage…
23rd May 2025 PiTrex – part 2 Lunar Lander
Lunar Lander – PiTrex / VecSimIn the light of a new Controller, conceived an realized by Sean Ferigan (Facebook group Vectrex Fans Unite), I started updating the Lunar Lander emulation used in PiTrex (based on Vec Sim). Photo stolen from…
23rd May 2025 PiTrex – part 1
Following are updates I made to PiTrex over the last year.I mentioned some of them on Brett’s Discord, on Facebook, or in the mailing list – but not on my website.These are very general changes over the last few years,…