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Re: Vectrex...
06/09/15 11:57 AM



> Oh, okay, I was a bit confused! I wasn't considering that month+ old post where I
> linked to another section of the forums as a "link", I thought you meant an outside
> link: it was actually Lord_Nightmare who posted the link to the Dropbox.
>
> Like I said, we got some 100MB 600dpi TIFF scans from Al of Armor Attack, Berzerk,
> Blitz, Clean Sweep, Cosmic Chasm, Hyper Chase, Scramble, Solar Quest, Spinball, Star
> Hawk, and Star Trek back in August 2013... Assuming those and the stuff from this
> Dropbox are all good enough to be cleaned up, vectorized and .lay files made, that
> would mean we still need to have decently scanned:
> - Bedlam (GCE, 1982)
> - Dark Tower (Prototype) (GCE, 1983)
> - Fortress of Narzod (GCE, 1982)
> - Heads Up (aka Soccer Football) (GCE, 1983)
> - Mr. Boston Clean Sweep (GCE, 1982)
> - Polar Rescue (GCE, 1983)
> - Pole Position (GCE / Namco Ltd., 1983)
> - Rip-Off (GCE, 1982)
> - Space Wars (GCE, 1982)
> - Spike (GCE, 1983)
> - Star Castle (GCE, 1982)
> - Star Ship (GCE, 1982)
> - Web Warp (GCE, 1983)
> - Web Wars (GCE, 1983)
>
> After that is all done, we can start in on the homebrew overlays. Our current Vectrex
> artwork pack has artwork overlays for several homebrew games.
>
> [EDIT] It seems Berzerk, Mine Storm, Scramble and Solar Quest have already been
> vectorized to EPS, assuming that they are accurate:
> http://computer-classics.de/cah_blog2/test-resource-post/vectrex/
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> - Stiletto

Yeah, thanks, that helped indeed .
Now, i just need a "trusted source" of those overlays that are allready done . I checked your computer-classics link and I am wondering about the files I get. They are PDFs and are seperated into one color file and one alpha file. I am assuming those are prepared for people that want to reproduce or make those overlays for themselves. I am wondering especially about the alpha-file, as it seems wrong, if you intend to use it with MAME, mainly because the areas are not "filled" with black, except the copyright font text.
Do you have a good working layout file, that is done for MAME? So, I could take a look into it, how it is build. I just want to understand the logic behind it, as I think that i.e. Minestorm is not properly done. I am pretty sure that the crosshairs and coordinate system are not transparent on the original overlay, therefore the alpha is wrong, as there are no crosshairs+coordinate system included.
Once, I have a clue, how the layouts are working, I will start to vectorize missing files.
Other than this, the files are really decent in terms of quality. Maybe "overdone", as I think 300dpi would also be well enough, for vectorizing AND printing them.
I think I can help out, with some of the missing official overlays and also have the "red" Vector-Pilot overlay for the homebrew-section.

thx in advance.. u-man







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Subject Posted by Posted on
* Call for more MESS artwork StilettoAdministrator 04/23/15 06:11 PM
. * Re: Call for more MESS artwork AntoPISA  04/29/15 09:02 AM
. * Vectrex... Trebor  04/27/15 01:29 AM
. * Re: Vectrex... uman  06/07/15 09:49 AM
. * Re: Vectrex... Trebor  06/07/15 04:15 PM
. * Re: Vectrex... Lord Nightmare  06/07/15 11:54 AM
. * Re: Vectrex... StilettoAdministrator  06/07/15 05:52 PM
. * Ramtek Clean Sweep bezel? gregf  06/08/15 01:08 AM
. * VECTREX Clean Sweep. StilettoAdministrator  06/08/15 02:28 AM
. * Re: VECTREX Clean Sweep. gregf  06/08/15 02:35 AM
. * Re: Vectrex... uman  06/07/15 09:39 PM
. * Re: Vectrex... StilettoAdministrator  06/07/15 11:01 PM
. * Re: Vectrex... uman  06/08/15 09:51 AM
. * Re: Vectrex... StilettoAdministrator  06/09/15 12:50 AM
. * Re: Vectrex... uman  06/09/15 11:57 AM
. * Re: Vectrex... StilettoAdministrator  06/10/15 08:00 AM
. * Re: Vectrex... uman  06/11/15 01:23 PM
. * Re: Vectrex... Nightvoice  04/27/15 12:06 PM
. * Re: Vectrex... Trebor  04/28/15 04:57 AM
. * Re: Vectrex... StilettoAdministrator  04/28/15 05:44 AM
. * Re: Vectrex... Nightvoice  04/28/15 11:20 AM
. * Re: Vectrex... Lord Nightmare  04/27/15 09:47 AM
. * Re: Vectrex... Trebor  04/28/15 04:49 AM
. * Re: Vectrex... StilettoAdministrator  04/30/15 10:05 AM

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