Re: What are you doing with your ZVG?

With Zonn's help I have written a little demo of the ZVG just to
experiment with drawing vectors in realtime. I have been using DJGPP as
my environment after I had problems getting a usable DOS version of
Borland. I too am using a PIII (450mhz) to drive the ZVG.

This weekend I publicly displayed the ZVG to a bunch of classic game
players and collectors (including Jeff Minter - author of Tempest
2000/3000). Suffice as to say that they were very impressed and excited
at the prospect of new vector games in the future as well as emulation.

Next on the cards is to write a simple game. I'm learning C as I do this
so it is taking me ages. My aim, eventually, is to do something along
the lines of a vector-based Sinistar, using a spinner for the direction.

Ian

Joel Rosenzweig wrote:

>I was wondering what those of us with ZVGs are doing with them now? Has
>anyone written any games for it? I've been planning on writing some test
>applications first, then some games eventually, but I haven't made ZVG
>development a priority yet, so that hasn't happened. I'm finally putting a
>dedicated PIII machine together to handle all of the ZVG activities. I
>expect to have that up and running in the next two weeks, then I'll get to
>start thinking about some software again. I didn't have the Borland
>software environment, so I wasn't able to just compile the source that was
>made available on the ZVG developer's site.. Though, Zonn mentioned to me a
>little while back that he'll be moving this stuff over to Microsoft's Visual
>Studio, and write a window's driver for the parallel port access, so that
>should make that portion of the development a lot easier to deal with.
>
>Joel-
>
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