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LS650 · Joined: 23 Dec 2007 Posts: 38 Location: British Columbia

Remember the vector-display based game console from the early 1980s called the Vectrex? The graphics were monochrome and vector-based, similar to say the arcade game Asteroids.

There's a Java-based emulator called ParaJVE written by a guy in France. I installed the Java 1.6 PET... http://puppylinux.ca/bugs/java-1.6u3.pet

and then downloaded the Linux version of ParaJVE here: http://vectrex-emu.blogspot.com/

I found that I have to turn off the default display of overlays... but once I do that the emulator runs perfectly on my Puppy 3.01 machine (a Compaq Presario X1000). Sounds and graphics work well. By default it uses the arrow keys and the number keys 1/2/3/4 for input. I'm still trying to figure out how to get the program to recognize my Logitech Precision gamepad...

The download includes about two-dozen legally-release ROMs. Enjoy some old-school video gaming! I find the default game of MineStorm to be a really nice take-off of Asteroids.....