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*'''8/9''' Playing tips were added to [[.--. .- -. --.. . .-.]]. Click on the Tabber at the bottom of the page in case you want to try to improve your game.
 
*'''7/10''' Review added for [[.--. .- -. --.. . .-.]]. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the Tabber to see what rating it got. The game also got added to the [[How to enlarge your Vectrex screen]] and [[Vectrex poems]] pages as well, so see what new info those entries received as well.
 
*'''7/10''' Review added for [[.--. .- -. --.. . .-.]]. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the Tabber to see what rating it got. The game also got added to the [[How to enlarge your Vectrex screen]] and [[Vectrex poems]] pages as well, so see what new info those entries received as well.
 
*'''5/10''' [[Android Computer Graphics]] page added. This was the program used for some of the graphics in the infamous [[Android]] movie.
 
*'''5/10''' [[Android Computer Graphics]] page added. This was the program used for some of the graphics in the infamous [[Android]] movie.
 
*'''3/20''' [[War of the Worlds Time Rift]] started as a stub last month but became a full page today.
 
*'''3/20''' [[War of the Worlds Time Rift]] started as a stub last month but became a full page today.
 
*'''3/19''' [[Pole Position]] started off as a stub over four years ago, but just got a bit of a makeover, with a lot more info added, errors corrected, and a review added. So click on the Tabber at the bottom of the page to see how it placed (har).
 
*'''3/19''' [[Pole Position]] started off as a stub over four years ago, but just got a bit of a makeover, with a lot more info added, errors corrected, and a review added. So click on the Tabber at the bottom of the page to see how it placed (har).
*'''3/15''' Review added to [[Spinball]]. Click on the Tabber at the bottom of the page to see how it ranked.
 
   
 
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Revision as of 15:50, 9 August 2015

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Welcome to Vectrex Wiki

Welcome to the Vectrex wiki! A place for all Vectrexians to gather to discuss the best -- and only -- vector gaming system ever made!


RASTER AND FMV NOT ALLOWED!!

Forget the pixels and the pre-rendered backgrounds, this is a lines-only zone! (Not counting a few of the bitmapped homebrew games, of course!)

So far, there are 319 non-raster articles online since November 2, 2010.

New content

  • 8/9 Playing tips were added to .--. .- -. --.. . .-.. Click on the Tabber at the bottom of the page in case you want to try to improve your game.
  • 7/10 Review added for .--. .- -. --.. . .-.. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the Tabber to see what rating it got. The game also got added to the How to enlarge your Vectrex screen and Vectrex poems pages as well, so see what new info those entries received as well.
  • 5/10 Android Computer Graphics page added. This was the program used for some of the graphics in the infamous Android movie.
  • 3/20 War of the Worlds Time Rift started as a stub last month but became a full page today.
  • 3/19 Pole Position started off as a stub over four years ago, but just got a bit of a makeover, with a lot more info added, errors corrected, and a review added. So click on the Tabber at the bottom of the page to see how it placed (har).

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Western Technologies employee John Ross went with Mike Pervus, Tom Sloper, and Steve Marking to Electro Mavin, a surplus dealer's warehouse in Los Angeles. There Ross found a 1" Cathode Ray Tube from a Heads Up Display. This led to a demonstration of how to make a vector display from a raster television: a stereo amplifier was connected to the horizontal and vertical deflection coils and driven with music program material. Ross was responsible for the monitor design. He also shepherded the production of prototypes with Jamie MacInnis and the initial printed board circuitry and Hong Kong manufacturing via Steve Marking. (The rest of the article can be read here.)


(Previous featured articles can be seen here.)

Submitting a new article

It can be confusing to new users to wikis in regards to submitting new pages, but it's fairly simple for creating new pages for the most part. Most situations for submitting new material to this wiki in particular will usually include:

1. In order to create a write-up about a game or programmer that does not have a page yet, users can click on either the list of Vectrex games or the list of Vectrex personnel pages, click on the corresponding name, and that will take you to the entry's new page for you to create.

2. If there is no page to one of the above, edit one of the lists, add the game or personnel name (just make sure to encase them in double brackets so a page will appear when it is clicked on), Publish it, then click on the entry.

3. Do a Search (at left if you're using the MonoBook skin, at top center if using the New Wikia skin) for the subject you wish to create an article on, which it will read "<Create the page "_____" on this wiki!>", which will be in red if using the MonoBook skin; if you're using the default Wikia skin, then type in the subject name in the Contribute field at top right. After that, you'll click on the red area for the MonoBook skin or you'll click on Add a page if using the Wikia skin, and after that you will be taken to a new page and you can start typing to your heart's content.

4. If passing along your story in regards to getting your Vectrex (and/or your experience with the machine), perform step #3, then type in "Vectrex Stories: _____" (your user name or what you'd like to be identified as) to start that up.

If there are any questions, either leave them on this discussion page or this wiki's founder's page. There's also the How to write an article page to read up on formatting for this wiki in particular, and the backup wiki to dump a copy of whatever article(s) you write (or you can ask the above admin to do it for you, although you will not get a credit for it in your history if you have an account) is here. Articles have a 60 day time period to be copied onto the backup wiki until the founder puts a copy there himself.

Thanks, and good luck with writing and editing!

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