[Coco] Vectrex

[Roger Taylor]

At 01:26 AM 11/5/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 11/4/03 1:36:14 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>rtaylor at bayou.com writes:
>
> > Thanks for the info.  Some kind of default 3-D battle game appears to run
> >  in Vectrex mode of M.E.S.S.  Looks kinda neat to see the 6809 do nice 3-D
> >  in 256x192.
>
>Actually the default built-in game, "Mine Storm", is not 3-D or "first
>person", but the less exciting kind where you look down on your space ship 
>in its
>2-D universe.
>With the special goggles, you can do real 3D and color, but with just the
>bare Vectrex there are game ROM paks where you look out the window of your 
>ship
>or whatever -- "Polar Rescue", etc.
>
>I'm really impressed that MESS does the vector graphics.  That means they're
>simulating *analog* circuits and X-Y-Z driven CRTs.  Remains to be seen
>whether MESS is doing a literal emulation of the analog circuits, or just 
>digitally
>emulating the *effects* of them.  What the heck, maybe I'll finally DL a
>version of MESS and see how it works, though I've been waiting for the 
>bugs and
>misfeatures to settle out.
>--Mike K.

The CoCo emulation is a lot better now.  You'd be surprised at how accurate 
it is.  The Vectrex emulation makes me want to try to create a virtual 
ROMPAK for that machine and see if it will do *something*.  :)

I've been creating and mounting virtual cartridges in the Dragons, the 
CP-400, and all of the CoCos.  Might as well play around some more.