Comments on: Supercon 2023: Building a Portable Vectrex, The Right Way

By: adrian godwin

adrian godwin — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:53:11 +0000

In reply to Bobtato. I had an urge to build a laser Spacewars but came to the conclusion that galvos had nowhere near the necessary frequency response. Would love to be proved wrong.

By: Erik Johnson

Erik Johnson — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 06:57:47 +0000

I have wanted to do this for years :o

By: Drone

Drone — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 05:47:26 +0000

Battlezone was a 1980 vector arcade game originally from Atari that was pretty popular. Today you can freely download and play Battlezone on a fairly modern PC in DOSBox, or you can play it online in your browser.[1][2][3][4]

References:

[1] Battlezone (1980 video game):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game)

[2] DOSBox:

https://www.dosbox.com/

[3] Battlezone DOS – 1983:

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/battlezone-1np

[4] Battlezone online in your browser:

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/battlezone-1np/play-1np

By: elwing

elwing — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:08:49 +0000

In reply to dendad. ali express has some spare screens like that for around 20$ shipped, no need to try to recover some from old used doorbell...

By: Fl.xy

Fl.xy — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:17:24 +0000

Sprite has always made very creative and inspiring projects. I have several Sony Watchman handheld TV’s, larger portable battery powered CRT TV’s and camera viewfinders (which make fun little displays needing only power and a composite signal). This would be a nice use of them.

By: Nath

Nath — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 09:31:28 +0000

In reply to pelrun. +1 A kit would be awesome too!

By: pelrun

pelrun — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 07:21:23 +0000

Hey Jeroen, it’d be lovely if you can finish writing up/releasing the design files for this at some point – I’ve had a screen and an FPGA sitting on the shelf waiting for this ever since the talk last year! :D