Vectrex Release

Release programming is finished. All parcels have been packed and were brought to the post office yesterday. TODAY actually the first one arrived – so I deem this is the time, this is the place – Release is released to…

Man – I never did – and probably never will again – three updates to a single blog a day. Anyways – just some photos – I let them speak for themselves: (all cards tested – they work – will…

One score number blinks for one frame quite a bit to the upper left. You see that? That’s from the video I posted yesterday. GLITCH! I went on another hunt. Sorry glitch – I said you were a feature –…

As of today – I declare the programming of Release finished. If there are any bugs left – they are hereby declared features! (Might be that I remove some features in future updates though 🙂 ). What does this mean?…

The last couple of days where finetuning, bug inserting and bug extracting :-). Some homemade problems that had to be rectified (like losing again some sources – and forgetting what exactly had been done). Anyways quintessence – Release draws near…

More than two weeks without a post about Release… Well – it isn’t that I didn’t do anything Release related – but the things I did were not ALONE Release related. I did many things music related. As the last…

In German there is a saying: Aus der Not eine Tugend machen. I guess a close translation would be “Making a virtue out of necessity”. Coming home from a short weekend stay at a friends place – I got an…

Beta 5 – had been for download. The bin file was 32632 bytes long, missing still: final music some soundeffect options menu some texts I am not sure what I will do – optimizing is well and nice – but…

Today was nerve-wrecking. I only wanted to do some small stuff – but I discovered a couple of bugs in vide – that needed fixing. Than I went glitch hunting again – and again unsuccessfully. It’s not the stars, it…