I recently worked on a Vectrex demo with the CMU Computer Club, and developed a few patches to MESS (originally against 0.106 {yay Debian stable!}, forwarded-ported to 0.144 by mkasick, and then forward-ported again to MESS SVN by me) in the process.

I'm hoping that some MESS developer would be willing to get them included with MESS.

01-mess-vectrex-64k-rom.diff—support 64k cartridge ROMs, bank-switched via the extra PB6 pin that runs from the 6522 to the cartridge slot

02-mess-vectrex-cart-sram.diff—support writable cartridge address space (apparently some recent third-party games use SRAM in cartridges in order to have more RAM than the 1K built-in to the Vectrex)

Patches and some test ROMs are available here: http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~kbare/mess-vectrex/

Thanks,

—Keith

Thank you for your contribution.

I'll get these in if nobody else does

Also, http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=59227

Jeez, the Vectrex only had 1K of RAM?

it's not really unreasonable / unexpected.. the actual games and graphics were on ROM afterall. Most consoles (including things like the NeoGeo) had a puny amount of RAM compared to what people might imagine.

I really like all the comments on pouet asking how he did the glow. LOL.

Thanks! Let me know if you have any questions.

Yup, that's the demo. =-)

Seriously? FAIL. :p

[EDIT] Really digging the demo. Great stuff!

kbare: Thanks for your contribution. Sorry I was away so could not handle this.

RB: Go ahead and take it

I was going to already, but my cable modem was dead when I got home yesterday so no SVN access. Should be fixed this afternoon.

And yeah, the demo is pretty awesome, even if the Nyan part makes my ears bleed ;-)

Someone needs to do a vector Second Reality now. There's already a very good AY version of the Purple Motion song floating around (I think from the ZX Spectrum).