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Post by jslgames on Jan 30, 2014 0:00:02 GMT -5
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Post by VectorX on Jan 30, 2014 0:46:20 GMT -5
Thanks! I'll definitely add it to the vector links page.
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wazzal
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Completed Veccy Bird [1.5]!
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Post by wazzal on Jan 30, 2014 0:56:10 GMT -5
Love Minter games.
Excited to take a look through this article, thanks for posting!
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Post by detonator on Jan 30, 2014 21:13:21 GMT -5
When emulation was new, Jeff Minter was very active in alt.* newsgroups. He's a big Tempest fan.
Neil Bradley's EMU was the first one that emulated all vector games. I freaked out when I heard about it and immediately bought a new computer. Those were the days...
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Post by VectorX on Jan 30, 2014 21:39:49 GMT -5
^Was that any good?
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Post by detonator on Jan 30, 2014 23:18:18 GMT -5
You mean EMU?
Yes, it was perfect. Only downside was that it didn't save the high scores.
Vector games came to MAME pretty soon after that. Except for Empire Strikes Back, which used some sort of different code. But Neil Bradley was the guy who was the first to emulate the Atari classics.
Just imagine how much money Atari lost because they didn't port these very popular games to home computers. They would have sold like hotcakes in the early nineties.
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Post by VectorX on Jan 30, 2014 23:32:17 GMT -5
Yeah, thanks. Nice to hear an early version was able to do a good job with it. |
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