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What are you planning to use it with? Resolution matters when picking a spinner. IIRC, the Atari driving controller only has about 12 clicks per revolution so its very low res. You could build a nice arcade quality usb one with this, but it's not cheap : http://www.ultimarc.com/SpinTrak.html I have a USB Griffin Powermate volume control, it can be configured for use in Mame etc pretty easily.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin_PowerMate

Magical sound shower. Iconic tune.

these things are pretty pointless, imo. why use 'real' carts with an emulator? if you want the real thing, use the real thing. if you want emulation, even most phones can do most of these systems well (and support bluetooth controllers).

IIRC, it was first released before 'dual shock' controllers were out, so no analog controls.

Yeah it's good, I'm surprised you didn't include that in the poll too.

IIRC that game is supports digital input only. Very disappointing as it's very nearly a great version of Pong.

Its not bad in a Harold Faltermeyer meets Jan Hammer way, I dig it. Not a classic opener by any means but at least it's better than the game itself.

There was a recent interview in Retro Gamer magazine (Sega Saturn on the cover) with Jim Bagley, the programmer of Doom on the Saturn. Quoted verbatim from the magazine : "I got a call from John Carmack, who stipulated under no circumstances could I use the 3D hardware to draw the screen, I had to use the processors like the PC." He said it effectively 'kneecapped' the Saturn version. I suspect the same happened with Quake.

There is also Veccy Bird on Vectrex.

You are welcome Kevin I got your email, the cart will be sent out on Monday (and may take a while to arrive, coming from UK)

We have a winner! http://www.binarystarsoftware.com/?p=156

We have a winner! http://www.binarystarsoftware.com/?p=156

Bump! Four days to go - go to www.binarystarsoftware.com and subscribe to the newletter for a chance to win a limited edition xmas cart (with usb tree)

Bump! Four days to go - remember and subscribe for a chance to win

Easily remedied on pal machines by adding a switch. Then you can enjoy full screen/full speed radiant silvergun

Sorry you missed it iesposta, but best of luck in the draw. Due to time restriction, I couldn't really offer USB carts for all as it would have taken too long to get the carts ready. I was trying my best to deliver to UK/Europe (at least) by Xmas. The 'lucky 10' were the first I got notification from paypal from. Atariage was the last of 3 places I posted in (while working so there were some gaps in timing), 'vectrex fans unite' group on facebook and the vector gaming forums being the others. As I now have a mailing list set up, that's where I'll make my announcements from now on, so you all should get the notification at the same time if I do another limited edition. It'd be nice to do another similar thing this year as I'll have the benefit of starting before the beginning of December, so a bit more time to build carts.

For anyone who missed out on the first 10 copies, I'm giving away a FREE copy of "Xmas Cart 2014" with USB Xmas tree to a randomly selected subscriber to my mailing list on Jan 31st. Sign up before then for a chance to win. More info here : http://www.binarysta...ware.com/?p=109

Hopefully your copy will arrive soon! For anyone who missed out on the first 10 copies, I'm giving away a FREE copy of "Xmas Cart 2014" with USB Xmas tree to a randomly selected subscriber to my mailing list on Jan 31st. Sign up before then for a chance to win. More info here : http://www.binarystarsoftware.com/?p=109

I just used regular 9-pin joystick extension cables and sheared the corners off the plug to fit the Vectrex.

Awesome job. I'll be sure to check it out on the Megadrive. I spent countless hours playing the c64 version of Barbarian as a kid. Up there with IK+ as one of the best 1-on-1 8bit fighters.

IIRC of the first 10 orders, 5 went to to the US, 3 to Europe and 2 to UK. They sold out very quickly though.

Anything would be good! But yeah, not exactly a large market. There has only been a homebrew demo (with source) released for it so far IIRC, pretty limited system but very cool display.

Thanks for the kind words guys A little extra xmas present for you : you can enable the starting level select (1-16) for both games by holding button 4 while booting (hold down until the game select screen appears). Once either game is selected, use up/down on the joystick to select the word "ONLY", above "START GAME". Pressing button 4 will cycle through the start level, move down and select "START GAME" to start from the level selected.

Free ROM download : http://www.binarystarsoftware.com/?p=97 Merry Xmas!

Free ROM download : http://www.binarystarsoftware.com/?p=97 Merry Xmas!