Allen Vectrex friends and interested Vectrex still a Happy New Year! This year's winter, you can make so far only the calendar and the short days. But the right season, To daddeln on the game console or sitting at the computer is now all.

Ave Maria

The crib is re-wrapped, but Mary remains for us get a little: Sascha aka “The lynx” is currently developing the space shooter “Ave Maria”. Where is indeed beamed in the previous levels of development but not shot. Sasha's entry into the Vectrex programming is by chance, because actually he composes music for retro consoles. Full of enthusiasm for him newly acquired Vectrex he has made himself a few weeks ago to the programming work and what's seen so far from Ave Maria, is promising. The “Maria” is the spaceship, with which the player has to master various tasks in several Level.

delivered: Madtronix

Sometimes things are announced, then run again but in the sand and are never heard from them again. The announced return of John Macallan (Madtronix) but has become really true and the 3D imager replicas are currently being delivered. On the Madtronix website John informed very timely on the production and delivery.
Because of a cable fire in the Swedish Post, the stamp collectors will be happy twice among early purchasers: The packages are very abundant equipped with Swedish stamps.

Vectrex Manual²

It should be mentioned my own project Vectrex Manual²:
The instructions for the Vectrex original games, there are all the web as Text files and also as scanned PDFs. contain the text files format requires no images and PDFs are of medium quality.
Reason enough to make me to the manual vectorization and readjustment of the Manual of Star Castle, also as an exercise for a full version of Mailplane. The resulting Star Castle Guide has just as PDF 200 Kbyte and would hardly be distinguished with real pressure and paper from the original. More Vectrex games instructions are planned, Next is the guide of Dark Tower turn . addendum: Meanwhile, a total of five instructions have finished and they have their own page “Vectrex game instructions” get to download.

With Vector Patrol, Hellhole and others will 2014 again an interesting Vectrex year. we remain excited!

The first Advent and the winter just around the corner. Time to make themselves comfortable at home. Today 'times much to read and little pictures for Look.

The mail plane takes off soon
The euphoria over the two full Mailplane prototypes has settled a little, the memory (ROM) the mail-plane prototype will soon read and Chris Romero is the dump (ROM-Image / Binary) available free on the Internet. Blessed is the one VecFlash or VecMulti and a light pen calls his own…
addendum on 29. Nov.: The ROM of Mailplane was read out and may from 1. December on Chris Romero's Website www.vectrex.com downloaded.

Höllenloch an Sylvester
That for 30. November, planned new game Hellhole Fury (George Pelonis) postponed again, new release date of Hellhole is Sylvester, so the 31.12.2013. 'Let's see, if the shipment then it works slightly faster than Warrior, many customers have been waiting for months on their copy of Warrior.
addendum on 21. Ten.: Hellhole is completed according to George Pelonis. The delivery is from 1. February 2014 take place.

Space Invaders in color
Y.A.S.I. is the excellent Space Invader clone of Alex Herbert. likely VectrexMad, für Y.A.S.I. offer a color film and does my survey a picture of the demand. The overlay is consuming screenprinted with 8(!) colors printed, thereby printing costs are comparatively high. The final price is expected at about. 15 EUR each overlay are. More details and an email address for expressions of interest can be found on the website www.vectrex.co.uk .

“Crazy electronics” with 3D glasses
Getting at an original 3D Imager for the Vectrex, is quite a costly affair. And if you have a, is the 3D imager longer on the shelf or cabinet to conserve these as you can really use it.
Anders could be the Madtronix Replicas of the 3D imager. The emigrated to Sweden Johannes Wolff was to 2007 very active for the Vectrex and had constructed a 3D Imager and sold some copies thereof. He also had light versions of Games Logo, Starling and Spike's Circus of Vectorzoa (Alex Nicholson) expelled. For years it had become quiet, as John writes on his website, had a car accident put him out of action for some time. Now Madtronix is ​​back and plans, deliver the 3D Imager and the light versions again. The Madtronix of the Vectorgaming Forum shown images look very promising. class!
addendum on 1.12.2013: Johannes (Madtronix) has a simple order compiled, in which the 3D imager replica (79 EUR), Multicarts, the Vectorzoa games and much more can be ordered.
addendum on 28.12.2013: Johannes (Madtronix) has a Blog furnished, of its current situation shows.

. 31 years ago the video game crash had torn the Vectrex to death. Since its closure prototypes of games are circulating, which were on the verge of publication. Some of the prototypes as Pitcher's Duel or Dark Tower were subsequently made public by Vectrex fans. Now it looks that way, as if another GCE original title could make it into the Vectrex public: engl.: Mail Plane.

Mail Plane is an educational game that is operated with the light pen and the controller. The player has to load a mail plane (engl.: Mail Plane) with packages and bring them safely to their destination. For this, the aircraft has loaded, a route on a map chosen, the aircraft started, be flown and landed. Mailplane is certainly not a super exciting game that all players have been waiting for eagerly. Nevertheless, it is by the operator with the light pen an interesting title and especially a title.

Exciting is the story of Mailplane, me a little lost in the centuries Ring in Tolkien “Lord of the rings” remind:
Only 1997, So many years after the closure of GCE, was first in the magazine “Retrogames” of Mailplane reported. “forgery!” were then the first reactions, but at that time published details and pictures sounded absolutely believable. F. R. Wilk, a former GCE employee was owned by Mailplane and three other prototypes, he finally 2008 For 5000 offering dollars on ebay. The auction ended with no bids and Vectrex fan Shawn SCALLEN acquired the prototype directly for 2900 Dollar. Shawn had before, the Mailplane prototypes as full version with box, posting module and instruction. The effort and cost of producing a full version at that time could not of the Vectrex fans are applied, so the Mailplane prototype for years on the shelf, bored precisely in the safe of Shawn.
Three weeks ago, then dipped a second, runnable prototype at Digital Press and a week ago then a third Mailplane was listed Prototype on ebay. This auction ended yesterday and Chris Romero (Vectrexer) has bought the Mailplane prototypes. Chris plan, read the EPROM of the prototype and to publish on the Internet for free.

A publication of about Mailplane 31 Years after the company breakdown of GCE Vectrex had a small sensation and in addition to the publication of the binary there are already plans for the manufacture and production of a full version. Stay tuned…

addendum: Chris Romero As announced the ROM image of Mailplane published on its website.

Of the over spilled from America Halloween I myself am not so enthusiastic. The good thing about Halloween is but, that you can easily remember another date, namely the 1. November. Correct, there is Allerheiligen, but above all because the place Play-Your-Vectrex Day instead!

There is indeed the Universal Children's Day, the world Health Day, the World Animal Day and many other world-so and so-days, because you will not miss a world-Vectrex tag. Der Play-Your-Vectrex-Day (loosely translated: Spiel-Deine-Vectrex-Tag) takes place annually on 1. Of November to commemorate the Vectrex.

The aim of the Play-Your-Vectrex Days is fun playing Vectrex and the common thought and remembrance of the Vectrex. The rules for participation can be read in the Vectrex-Wiki (English) and are simple:

This Friday, 1. November, a Vectrex game on the play and then enter your full name, first name or a pseudonym with the game played on the Wiki page yourself, contact the Wiki-Admin Darryl or send a forum message to Darryl (VectorX) in the Vectorgaming Forum.
If you should have difficulties due to the English language, then please let me know via e-mail, this shouldn't keep you from participating. who would, you can make even more (see section “Bonuses” on the Wiki page).

I look forward to an active participation in the Play-Your-Vectrex Day and am curious, how many Vectrex fans will attend this year! Now: (Vectrex on)² on the Play-Your-Vectrex-Day!

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addendum on 3. November:
The official election results final Results are not yet available, it should again this year to the 20 have been at the international play-Your-Vectrex Day participants. More details on the Wiki-Seite des Play-Your-Vectrex-Days.

This time a short post on his own behalf: VEXTREX.de is a German language website for the Vectrex console. And it will remain that way; All articles will continue written in German. Thus, the information available to a wider audience available, is VECTREX.de is multilingual since today. So no longer merely “Man spricht deutsch” (alluding to Gerhard Polt Satire), but we also speak English, Spanish, French, and Japanese.

The translation of the texts is done by machine, not expect too much of, so please, translations will read quite bumpy. but to understand the content, it should be enough. The language is automatically determined by the browser setting, if the 'time did not work out, then your language from the selection list “TRANSLATION” (right) select manually. Oh yes: “thank you!” to Ofer Wald for his excellent Plug-In Transposh.

In this sense: Hello Vectrex world!

EDIT: As far as I've seen in the server logs, automatic language detection doesn't work very well using the submitted browser values. The language is now always set to German and changes only with manual selection.