{"id":35331,"date":"2025-03-07T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jungsi.de\/?p=35331"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:55:34","slug":"pitrex-vectrex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jungsi.de\/en\/pitrex-vectrex\/","title":{"rendered":"PiTrex [Vectrex]"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this article, I\u2019m delving back into my \u201cPile of Shame\u201d \u2013 the hardware that\u2019s been sitting on my desk for quite some time but hasn\u2019t been featured yet. This time, it\u2019s the turn of the PiTrex<\/strong>, an interesting hardware project that\u2019s been on the market for a while and has been waiting for me to test it for quite some time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did it take so long? The global chip shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic meant I couldn\u2019t get hold of a suitable Raspberry Pi Zero<\/strong>. It wasn\u2019t until April 2023 that I was finally able to buy one, and a few months later I finally found the time to take a closer look at the PiTrex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is PiTrex?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The PiTrex is an exciting hardware project launched by Graham Toal, Kevin Koster, James Churchill and Malban<\/strong>. It acts as a bridge between the legendary Vectrex console<\/strong> and the Raspberry Pi by replacing the Vectrex\u2019s CPU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

At the heart of the PiTrex is a Raspberry Pi Zero with an ARM CPU offering a 1 GHz clock speed and 512 MB of RAM. Thanks to this performance, the Pi is capable of emulating vector arcade games<\/strong>. But that\u2019s not all:<\/p>\n\n\n\n