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Vexxon now runs on a Nintendo 64
Why an N64 at all
Because the game was already most of the way there. Vexxon runs on the Vectrex, on the desktop, in a browser, and on Batocera, and all of those builds share the same source. Only the layer that draws changes each time,...
Personalisation in VEXXON
Every copy of VEXXON is built for one person, and that person’s name is part of the game. Not only printed on a label, but compiled in.
Here is what that means in practice.
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The Vectrex programming book I wanted
For the last while, I have been writing the book I wanted to write when I started making games for this machine. It is (almost) finished: 230 pages, 40 chapters, and 7 appendices, from an empty folder to a cartridge you could actually sell...
Doom on the Vectrex
Doom runs everywhere. That part is a joke by now — printers, oscilloscopes, pregnancy tests. What the joke skips is that most of those machines are more powerful than the one Doom was written for. Putting Doom on something faster than a 199...
The Number Too Small To See
A short note before we begin.
Vexxon is finished. It shipped in July — hand-assembled cards, each with its owner’s name compiled into the image, posted out across twenty-odd countries. The second batch goes out in September.
Vector & Vert...
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Real retro hardware → supercharged for Steam. Pure wireframe. Zero sprites. Now: Vexxon (Vectrex) \ud83d\ude80 #wireframe #lowpoly #retrodev #rogerboesch
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