While adding 3D graphics features to the Vectrex32, I wrote a BASIC program to demo them. The program allowed you to create Tie fighters (like in the original vector graphics Star Wars arcade game) on the screen and rotate them. But there was a problem: the Tie fighter is such a complex drawing that the Vectrex exhibits the dreaded pen drift, and one side of the Tie fighter starts oscillating, being drawn in a slightly different position in each frame.
So I switched from Tie fighters to pyramids and that's what I included on the Vectrex32's USB drive (see the program Demo3D.bas).
However, some people might want to experiment with the Tie fighter or use it as a code example, so I'm posting it here. You must have Vectrex32 version 1.10 or later to use this.
- Bob
So I switched from Tie fighters to pyramids and that's what I included on the Vectrex32's USB drive (see the program Demo3D.bas).
However, some people might want to experiment with the Tie fighter or use it as a code example, so I'm posting it here. You must have Vectrex32 version 1.10 or later to use this.
- Bob