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Post by jfmateos on Aug 2, 2014 16:04:59 GMT -5
A first effort towards Vectrex Pang and a very promising proof of concept.
I feel so excited about this project that wouldn't mind to postpone my summer holidays... but my wife doesn't agree... so more information in september.
Happy summer for all vectrex lovers.
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Post by cNp on Aug 3, 2014 13:45:10 GMT -5
Wow, that is cool... are those actual circles?
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Post by jfmateos on Aug 3, 2014 13:50:12 GMT -5
Yes, as "actual circles" as scale 20 allows
Nevertheless the y scale of the vectrex make them a bit oblong
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Post by christophertumber on Aug 3, 2014 16:22:05 GMT -5
Wow, that is cool... are those actual circles? Chris Salomon did curves in VFrogger. I'm pretty sure the first actual circles were in my Magic 8 Ball toy. They're obviously pretty uncommon - Tricky and somewhat resource heavy. Certainly no one's completed a real game with them as a significant element. Attachments:8BALL.BIN (1.76 KB)
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Post by christophertumber on Aug 3, 2014 16:36:48 GMT -5
A first effort towards Vectrex Pang and a very promising proof of concept. I feel so excited about this project that wouldn't mind to postpone my summer holidays... but my wife doesn't agree... so more information in september. I may have mentioned in another thread that I have a bad habit of starting projects and not finishing them. Here's another one  I really debated making this post since I don't want to hijack the thread or derail your enthusiasm. But pop.bin has been out in public for >10 years and has been misappropriated on multi-carts. So eventually someone's going to mention it which makes it the elephant in the room if I don't say anything. Bleh. Anyway, please let me know if you think the source code would be helpful and I'll send it to you. I don't think it's doing much of significance that you aren't already but maybe there's something interesting. I don't really want to post it publicly. I expect it's pretty crappy. Attachments:pop.bin (5.28 KB)
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Post by jfmateos on Aug 4, 2014 2:59:51 GMT -5
Thank your very much Christopher... i will check it in september and let you know.
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Post by Malban on Aug 7, 2014 5:37:36 GMT -5
Greetings!
I'd love to see more "curved" vectors :-)!
I think the first game to use them was Pole Position - if I remember correctly the road you race on is "curved".
Regards
Chris
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Post by 50tbrd on Aug 11, 2014 21:53:39 GMT -5
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Post by centaura on Sept 21, 2014 8:42:16 GMT -5
Very nice effect Liking the smoothness. I wonder why more circles are not used in games vectrex... they´re good looking! (I guess the cause could be excessive processing time for the CPU, maybe causing some delay in scenes full of sprites) Like Malban I was very surprised with Pole Position... there are curves and moreover they are "dinamic" curves, with a perfect morph (three to the right and two to the left, alternating spins) |
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Post by jfmateos on Jan 20, 2015 8:45:57 GMT -5
I am still working actively in this project, but today I have faced a big problem: the project will need a full redesign because the approach I have been using have reached its limits... feeling very sad. :-(
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