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Is a 486 (100mhz) with 32mb of RAM enough for VectorMame?
Stingray:
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I do already have a PII 200mhz system that I have been using as a testbed coupled with a Vectrex as a monitor.
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Back up! How do you use a Vectrex as a monitor?
-S
shawnzilla:
It's actually pretty cool (and easy) to do. It is seriously as if the Vectrex creators were thinking two decades ahead to us BYOACErs. They even included a perfect channel in the Vectrex for the monitor cable!
The full instructions for doing this are at www.zektor.com/zvg/ You do need to buy a special cable from Zonn to hook it up ($15).
Took me 20 minutes from start to finish to hook it up, and it is completely reversible if you want to play with your Vectrex games again.
--- Quote from: Stingray on February 02, 2006, 12:22:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: shawnzilla on February 02, 2006, 12:17:33 pm ---
I do already have a PII 200mhz system that I have been using as a testbed coupled with a Vectrex as a monitor.
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Back up! How do you use a Vectrex as a monitor?
-S
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Matthew Fisher:
--- Quote from: shawnzilla on February 02, 2006, 12:17:33 pm ---Gosh, I didn't mean to start an argument! :angel:
My main concern about getting a faster system (in the neighborhood of 1ghz or so) is that I'm never going to be able to get dos to work with a pci soundcard. (it'd be sweet if there were a Windoze version of VectorMame, so that this would cease to be an issue for us vector freaks).
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Amen, brother! I finally got sound (SB 4.1 PCI, I believe) but am having a hell of a time with some of my controls. Being able to use USB would be REALLY nice...
Wow, good to know that I was an inspiration! But now I have your wife AND mine mad at me... :) Direct quote from wife: "That thing is nothing but a money pit."
Stingray:
That ZVG.com link is in German and there are no links on the page that I could find. My friend google found the instructions for me though.
http://www.zektor.com/zvg/downloads.htm
Thanks for the heads-up! :)
-S
shawnzilla:
Whoops, I updated the link in my post. :)
I'd love to see someone make a vector bartop out of one of these.
--- Quote from: Stingray on February 02, 2006, 12:31:16 pm ---That ZVG.com link is in German and there are no links on the page that I could find. My friend google found the instructions for me though.
http://www.zektor.com/zvg/downloads.htm
Thanks for the heads-up! :)
-S
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