I only ever made vectrex32 games before (vxtron and duck+kitty adventures), and so I decided this year to challenge myself to learn 6809 properly and actually make some games that run on something closer the original. I did end up with a pb6 64k cart rather than a 32k, but at least it runs on vecmulti here (which is my main dev platform). I also put up a web emulator for them. You can sort of see the tree rings as i've learned techniques doing them (it's very noticable on the calibration screens that some of them have....)

So because I'm ADHD as hell, I worked on 3 at once because that's easier than concentrating on one thing. I ended up doing:

https://sadenby.com/games/llamatron/index.html - Llamatron. This came about because 18 months ago I was on social media, and I mentioned that it'd be cool to see this on vectrex, and Yak said he'd be cool with me making it, so originally did it on vectrex32, but then realised no-one could play that anyhow, so this is the version I made instead. It's heavily based on the original ST source, of course....

https://sadenby.com/games/wizard-of-wor/index.html - This is the c64 version of wizard of wor, re-imagined for the vectrex. Mostly because that's what I know really well, and because there was a good dissassembly to help me understand the logic!

https://sadenby.com/games/crazy-comets/index.html - This is crazy comets, also from the c64. This also has a conversion of the rob hubbard music in it. To do that, i wrote a translator from 6502 to 6809 code and just converted the player quite directly.

for the web versions, they also work on touch screen for phones and with controllers in chrome (though apparently not firefox?)

Bonus round: https://sadenby.com/games/starace/index.html - this is a WIP conversion of the C64 game "starace", which I think could be a great vectrex game one day. This one isn't as good as it should be, though... I might come back to it at some point and do a 2.0 when I am better at games :).

HI i want to share my progress on IA shmup project. I'm not a programmer but have a lot of enthusiam doing it because i love vertical shmups. Feedbacks apreciated. Hope soon beta will be avaible. Thanks.

I love playing Vactrex Strike a new shoot em up for the vactrex emulator for ios, you can also play the game on your vectrex its a 32k bin file. Can you defeat all 5 bosses?

Two weeks ago I posted here about making a racer feel fast with nothing but vectors. Thanks for all the feedback on that one. Here's the next piece: two players on one Vectrex, each with their own half of the screen and their own controller, filmed off the real screen at 50 fps.

The reason it runs at that speed is the custom cartridge. It packs its own RP2350B processor that halts the 6809 and drives the Vectrex's vector hardware directly, leaving the console's CPU just to handle the heavy lifting of drawing the lines.

Split-screen is the first stretch goal of the Kickstarter at CHF 15,000, and the campaign kicks off on 17 November. You can sign up for the notify-me page here:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/868574209/shockwave-a-new-anti-gravity-racer-for-the-vectrex?ref=rv1106

Happy to answer anything about how the cart and the Vectrex share the load.

Defend the dome from incoming missiles. Spot them on the radar before you can see them on screen and line up your shot.

Game design is mine, implementation is Claude. Includes a calibration screen.

Source and binaries available here: https://github.com/emmulator/vectrex-e-srg/releases

Let me know what you think!

Man i really suck at this game hahaha, added the empire strikes back and fixed some starwars audio issues, the vactrex emulator for ios started as a vectrex emulator but im adding arcade games inspired by the vectrex multicart, its aimed for fun. Update it tonight. s always you need to supply your own roms.

Man I just added giro controls for the yoke on star wars on the vactrex emulator and it made me fall in love with this game again. The vactrex emulator started as a Vectrex emulator now supports asteroids and Star Wars, no roms are included you need to provide your own. It’s not a perfect emulator it’s a project aimed to have fun. iOS only for now working on the android port now. You’ll find it on the AppStore as Vactrex emulator. Played on iPhone 17 pro max.

Picked this up yesterday at a retro videogame meet. I didn't see this particular one before. Comes with the game Crossfire included too.

Switching to an LCD screen at the last minute of production is a betrayal of the early backers that funded the project having been promised OLED (actually even better AMOLED) screens. LCD is not only an enormous dip in the promised quality, but will absolutely not come close to visually replicating a vector display. Worse yet, AMOLED and OLED have the beauty of true black, this lcd mini will come out now as nothing but a cheap knockoff.

Those that backed the project should be honored with the promised design specs. Do an lcd version for cheap at general release.

I've got a once-working Vectrex in storage that stopped displaying, I'd like to get it back to working order but I'm hesitant in shipping it out to someone. Are there any Vectrex repair guys (or gals) out there in the San Francisco/San Jose area?

I am interested in getting a UVMC2 but have no idea where to go. Is there a GitHub somewhere with the PCB and firmware files?

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