Re: What are you doing with your ZVG?

You still need the Atari (or equivalent) power supply.

tm

Harry Collins wrote:

> How do you power the monitor? Is it powered via the ZVG? Or do you need an
> Atari power supply to provide power to the G05/801/802 ?
>
> /harry
>
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> From: "Ian Boffin" <ian@vaxxian.net>
> To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 3:49 AM
> Subject: Re: VECTOR: 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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