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Post by binarystar on Apr 24, 2014 5:00:29 GMT -5
And sadly, it might be another 30 years before he can get the two other games he needs to complete it! You can easily burn the roms, ask Jim (marblemad) for more details. The 'carts' are just plastic shells to protect the chip - there is no PCB. I believe he has even made a model of it for 3d printers.
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Post by VECTREXER on Apr 24, 2014 9:54:35 GMT -5
At first I was reluctant to bring any more attention to it, thinking it might hurt my prospects of attaining one. Yeah, what with jinxing it! It is certainly inferior to Vectrex in most ways, but I think the design of the object is quite awesome. The overhead slots for storing the games was pretty awesome. I would love to just SEE one of these in person, and maybe play it briefly. Does anybody know if they are any fun at all??? With Defender, Turtles and Super Cobra being three of the four games that was ever released for it, I'd think yes! Show up at Classic Gaming Expo. Rik will likely have his out on display in the museum. You might even be able to talk him into a demo.
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Post by VectorX on Apr 24, 2014 11:50:26 GMT -5
I'd love to make a modern version using leds and an arduino one day. Well, the Adventurevision got its very first homebrew the other year, so maybe that's not too far off!
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Post by binarystar on Apr 24, 2014 12:35:34 GMT -5
Ooh did it? I was looking for documentation on programming the Adventurevision a while back but found little info, what was the name of the homebrew? *edit* never mind - found it It has source code too...interesting!
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Post by VectorX on Apr 24, 2014 13:07:16 GMT -5
I didn't know it was just a demo though until that video. Still interesting though.
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Post by 50tbrd on Mar 16, 2016 17:18:36 GMT -5
I was reading this thinking that it's be pretty easy to make a mOdern one with any color LED.
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Post by gliptitude on Mar 17, 2016 0:20:20 GMT -5
I was reading this thinking that it's be pretty easy to make a mOdern one with any color LED. Well i don't think it would be easy to replicate the mechanical part of the display. But maybe it could just be made as a full screen array of LED's with an actual resolution matching the effective resolution of the original? .. I guess an entirely new system like this could be cool but i would think that anyone willing to engineer such a thing would really need some existing full games to be compatible in order for the work to be justified. .. It might be neat to see an Adventure Vision emulator for monochrome Game Boy. .. Or Vectrex for that matter. .. Seems like neither Vectrex or Game Boy have any emulators made for them and that Adventure Vision would be one of the very few candidates.. and a great way to preserve that console too!
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Post by Nic Lobo (pucpuc) on Mar 17, 2016 3:47:16 GMT -5
I think Martijn Wenting id a chip8 emulator for vectrex that was never released
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