taylormadelv
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There's been a spike of interest in the ZVG vectormame stuff as of late. I always read these posts with some frustation. The ZVG card is no longer sold and they have no plans on making anymore. It's awesome that someone took the time to tweak this to work in Windows but the way I see this, it's for a privileged few who bought the board when they could and have a vector monitor for the display. So for many people, the ZVG is a dead end until they produce more. Here's where AAE steps in.
AAE is a vector game emulator, it is not mame. It takes more CPU power and a good, current graphics card to run properly. It took me several tries to get AAE to run but I finally got it to run smoothly!
http://pages.suddenlink.net/aae/
One guy has made this and this is the biggest weakness, he has not updated things for awhile and noone else can work on it. BUT...
I have been able to tweak the very detailed visual controls and have gotten some spectacular results! On my nice bright CRT, I can get most vector games to look almost original. I get glows and trails from the phosphors on the CRT being so bright, not a "computerized" effect. Tempest, Space Duel, Major Havoc and Star Wars look amazing! You have to see it in person to appreciate, just like a real vector monitor. Armor Attack and Star Castle look awesome with the overlays.
You can't add/subtract games so Cosmic Chasm is not included, yet.
You can go to the byoac forums and read about it more...
AAE is a vector game emulator, it is not mame. It takes more CPU power and a good, current graphics card to run properly. It took me several tries to get AAE to run but I finally got it to run smoothly!
http://pages.suddenlink.net/aae/
One guy has made this and this is the biggest weakness, he has not updated things for awhile and noone else can work on it. BUT...
I have been able to tweak the very detailed visual controls and have gotten some spectacular results! On my nice bright CRT, I can get most vector games to look almost original. I get glows and trails from the phosphors on the CRT being so bright, not a "computerized" effect. Tempest, Space Duel, Major Havoc and Star Wars look amazing! You have to see it in person to appreciate, just like a real vector monitor. Armor Attack and Star Castle look awesome with the overlays.
You can't add/subtract games so Cosmic Chasm is not included, yet.
You can go to the byoac forums and read about it more...


