Friday, June 29, 2007

Coding marathon - Vectrex OS

Hi All,

My holiday has started...
As a result, I've currently been up for about 3 days/nights on a coding marathon.

I've been working hard on what might be one of my most ambitious projects on the Vectrex:
A Vectrex OS, called: Vexos.

The OS currently has the following features:
- Drop down menu allows for easy navigation between different files.
- Add all kinds of media to the OS from your PC!!!
- One click binary output using a custom created vectrex filesystem.
- Able to display bitmap graphics (TGA/BMP/PCX formats)
- Able to display vector graphics and animations (VEC format)
- Able to display 3D objects (OBJ format, exportable from 3dsmax)
- Able to display Logo hex-dumps (still unstable)
- Able to run simple basic code (BAS files)
- Able to display text files
- Able to play digtized sound (WAV format, still not very clean)
- Able to play Atari YM music files.

Basically all you could want from an OS/menusystem on your Vectrex.
The best thing is you can now also write your own vectrex programs in BASIC and run them on your Vectrex.

Expect videos, screens and a possible beta to be released soon.