Vectrex Mini

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• wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Experience the spirit of the original Vectrex

  AMOLED display with a resolution of 800×600

  These two thoughts are not compatible.

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  • despoticruin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s always Vectrex too. I had a customer that was obsessed with getting one emulated, he just refused to understand that, fundamentally, vector graphics are incompatible with raster. No matter how I tried to break it down that a CRT was a necessity, that raster would always look wrong, that nobody develops a good vectrex emulator because you can’t emulate the graphics…

    Grifters gonna grift I guess.

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    • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If the gameplay itself hits your nostalgia feels, then okay, modern gear can make it playable and… fine. But vector CRT games were just so deeply tied to the way the CRT worked that you can never properly capture their spirit in raster form, especially on a tiny and so-so panel.

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    • Durandal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, it looks like they just slapped an old samsung phone in a plastic shell. Painful.

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    • Strider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well technically yes you can emulate the graphics.

      But then they’re rasterized so it’ll never appear the same.

      Technicalities but I couldn’t resist. 😁

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  • bufalo1973@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    From the website:

    Why not a CRT?
    The CRT is an iconic part of the original Vectrex, but today it is impossible to produce since no suppliers for this type of screen exist anymore. Since our goal is not to create a perfect copy but an accessible, faithful and playable tribute, we looked for the best possible alternative. AMOLED turned out to be the ideal compromise to achieve a display close to the original.

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    • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      While I’m glad they aren’t entirely ignoring the elephant in the room, what I’m humbly suggesting is that they’re wrong. It’s a rather inadequate compromise, and you might as well just use RetroArch on a tablet, which could get closer to the original screen size anyway.

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  • Durandal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yup… literally the first thing I did was scroll down to see what type of screen it was. smh

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• IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Definitely a disappointment. As another poster stated, putting retroarch on a tablet pretty much accomplishes the same thing.

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• oshu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wow all that bezel and the wrong screen ratio makes this thing look nothing like a Vectrex.

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• who@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Vectrex

  AMOLED display

  See also:

  PYREX

  soda-lime glass

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• Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s the damage though?

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• alleycat@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is that a coffee machine?

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