Coding the Vectrex

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Offline flash

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on: January 30, 2014, 05:11:39 pm
A while ago, I started playing with the delights of ASM on the Vectrex. Quite fun and a nice little diversion.

Because I doubt I will go any further with the two 'playthings', I decided to upload them and share.

(if anyone wants the source - just shout)

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Reply #1 on: January 30, 2014, 05:14:03 pm
Ok, the first one I did was a little ship moving thing.

Use L/R to rotate the ship and press button 1 and 2 for fire and thrust... Yep, thats it.. lol.

(also, I never did work out a nice way to slow the ship down as a percentage of each speed vector)

The vectrex .bin file is under the picture.



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Reply #2 on: January 30, 2014, 05:16:57 pm
Then, the 2nd one was actually getting more like a game.

It's a 2d Tempest. The code already handles many aliens, all detection, the line thingies, and such. Though, in the demo, I only present 2 aliens.. lol

L/R to move and button 1 to shoot.

Just to also say, in the source there are some nice routines. For one, the vector score code is handy and used in both demo's. Also, this has a nice adder as well that auto adds to the byte stored score. Anyway.... on with the show.


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Reply #3 on: January 30, 2014, 05:33:32 pm
which emulator should im uses? its look like a fun little game and nice setup too, and nice to see coding for old machines like this one :-D.

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Reply #4 on: January 30, 2014, 05:35:37 pm
You can use any you like. Personally, I would go for parajve.

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Reply #5 on: May 14, 2014, 11:50:16 am
Some cool pics in this Flickr group:
https://www.flickr.com/groups/18763363@N00/

and a nice demo of the light pen:


EDIT
*dont know why, youtube embed isnt showing for me so here is url:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1pILf4TGFA
« Last Edit: May 14, 2014, 12:19:12 pm by Crayfis »



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Reply #6 on: May 14, 2014, 12:12:45 pm
Love some of the panel artwork on them. Sweet

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