A friend was showing me his Vectrex (small vector multi machine), and it has coloured face plates for each game, which adds some nice variety.
So eye-bleedingly sharp.
Congrats!
Yeah I actually have a Vectrex but I hadn’t powered it up for a few years. Gave it a dusting off just yesterday and made sure it was still alive, which is it thankfully. Cartridges took a fair bit of coercing to get working though. But at least theres Mine Storm built-in!
Yeah, Asteroids is amazing to behold in person because of the brightness of those vector graphics displays. A friend of mine owned an Asteroids Deluxe which used a mirror to display the vector graphics on glass hovering over a cardboard cutout asteroid field. That game never had the same brightness, but it was a really cool effect.
Vector based graphics are indeed incredible for their time. They “punch above their weight” if you catch my drift.
Not sure why they named Vectorman after them. That game used pre-rendered graphics and didn’t have much to do with vectors.
Vectorman I think was inspired by the “vector bobs” effects in Amiga demos around that time which where ball sprites (bobs in Amiga talk, “blitter-objects”) moving around on vector paths n stuff. A popular demo scene effect!
Amazing gets on the Mario G&W and Asteroids cab. Would love to have those!
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Got a lucky find at my local Mega Replay on a P2 Justifier. Priced at 14.99, I guess they didnt know how rare this one actually is. Time to play some Lethal Enforcers John Woo style.
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Thats a steal!
I’m very happy I’ve finally found these two books for a reasonable price! Especially given these are technical books, from the 80, from a different continent, in a different language.
I really like the presentation, with how the program is actually explained and leads are given to encourage experimentation by hacking the code. BASIC is really a great language to get into simple programming, and 8bit computers were especially well suited for that task.
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I’d love to find something like that someday. What a find.
I received my Nomad that I had @Danexmurder mod with a cap kit and a replacement LCD screen.
The results are amazing to say the least.
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Glad you’re enjoying it! How’s the fast action of Gunstar Heroes on that screen?
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Smooth as silk. No blur at all.
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What kind of screen is that? Is that a composite-only mod?
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You’d have to ask @Danexmurder I’m not sure the exact screen he used.
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It’s a composite video mod. I did some research and it appears that there is an RGB breakout board made in Japan but they don’t ship outside the country. The guys over at ifixretro have sucessfully done this mod but it isn’t common yet. The Composite screen mod is still a giant step up in quality from the original screens. This was my first nomad mod and I was pretty shocked at the difference after I got it installed.
There’s a guy here in Toronto that has been trying to sell his LCD modded Nomad for a while now. I’ve watched him drop the price from $350 CAD to $280 over the last few weeks. I have no idea how much it should actually be going for.
Went to a small game swap in Guelph Ontario yesterday.
Canadian Strider cover doesn’t have that stupid “8 Mega Memory” logo like the US one but instead is the same as the PAL box but with Genesis branding instead of Mega Drive. Has a horizontal manual like PAL also. Not pictured are the 25 GB and 25 SNES box protectors I picked up for someone else since he couldn’t go.
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Thanks for the info. I can imagine the step up considering the the terrible screen it shipped with. I’ve been waiting for years for a good mod to pop up so I can make mine useable.
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