First thing at Home: trying my new #vectrex game “Hera Primera”.

It is boxed and comes with an overlay and a cartridge

The wild Ilu takes its prey home into its lair from #VCFe

I had to source a replacement potentiometer for a Vectrex' brightness knob. I found this one on Newark (link below), though I had to extend the leads to align with the hole in the shell then Dremel down the handle a bit so it didn't protrude too far, but it's working perfectly!

And plastic housing means there's no risk of it shorting against the flyback shielding!

https://canada.newark.com/amphenol-piher-sensorscontrols/pc16sh-10ip06-254a2020-ta/potentiometer-rotary-1-gang-250kohm/dp/79AK7441

Several years ago, a friend gave me some old computer stuff. Amongst it, this #Vectrex game. I unfortunately don't own a console to test it out.
I remember playing on it only once or twice back in the day. Not that many people owned one.
I was really impressed by its vector based display. It was monochrome but used color overlays to add the background graphics of the game, as can be seen on the picture.
#Retrocomputing #Retrogaming #ThrowbackThursday

Vectrex + ALL T-SHIRTS $16 TODAY!

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/9780121-vectrex-i

Vectrex + ALL T-SHIRTS $16 TODAY!

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/9780121-vectrex-i

Holy crap. There was almost an expansion for the #Vectrex to convert it into a full PC?!

You know, it'd be a hell of a project to expand one of the existing Vectrex emulators to support these stats.

If the supposed titles could be unearthed, it could be faithful.

If not, even just coming up with a bespoke implementation with these stated stats would be fun as hell.

https://www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?t=2887

These are my new ringtones/notification tones

https://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/vectrex-bios-vectrex

https://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/mine-storm-vectrex

Eure TopScore-Punkte im Spiel "Clean Sweep" (#Vectrex) sind nun in unsere Wall Of Fame eingeflosse, Glückwunsch an alle!
https://arcade-bar.de/walloffame.html

#letsgoretronom #retronomarcade #bestegäste #dortmund
#NRW #startups #cheers
#RETROGAMING #retrogames #Retro #arcade #bar #arcadebar #Nerds #gaming
@altbot

I normally don't like posting anything until it's done and there's a long way to go still (needs to be wired up), but it looks SO NICE I had to share!

I'm using an outdoor electronic enclosure from Amazon as the base and building the internal circuitry from scratch.

I'll post more when I'm done, including the circuit diagram.

24 hours after breaking into the snacks drawer and making herself sick, another attempt is made. #cats #caturday #catsofmastodon #Bengal #vectrex #zx81 #vinylrecords #viewmaster

I affected more repairs to my Vectrex and it's more or less working perfectly now, but I still have some stuff I need to do.
Check out the inside of this dusty boi!

Feel like I should do an #introduction post.

I run https://ramokromok.com where I post about interesting #RetroGaming and #VintageComputing news I find. And I also run https://digitalpinballfans.com for fans of #pinball sims.

I am admin on the Mastodon instance http://retrochat.online

When I remember, I try and post a random retro controller every week day at @Joysticks

Currently trying to write a @playdate game

Loves #vic20 #Plus4 #Amiga #Atari #intv #vectrex #sega #zxSpectrum #Psion #PS1