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Oh man! That is so cool.

 

When I was a kid, I tried to get my parents to buy me an Intellivoice for Christmas. I told them that my brother wanted it too - I assumed he did because we had the ECS extension and he had done some simple programming with the book that came with it. Anyway, he got mad when he saw it, and my parents took it back. I have never owned one, but maybe it's time to find one online so I can start my adventures in IntyBasic.

 

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I believe it is the only programming he has done in all of his life. I think he had Night Stalker in and he was somehow able to get the bat to animate on the screen.

 

I never had my chance to program anything until I was 19. It has been a slow journey since then.

 

I have been working on getting some of my junk uploaded in another blog. It's been slow going as I'm trying to retrieve sources and things from a backup I made AFTER my great HD crash of yesteryear. If you are interested, it is here: https://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/blog/72

 

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Stupid that I didn't backup before... I am a computers teacher after all. However, I am a very broke person... and I couldn't afford anything to do it with. My computer is soooo pathetic. Hahah

 

"If you put an Intellivision game on a black and white TV, would it explode or something? Why say for color TVs only?"

 

I don't recall any offhand, but I wonder if there isn't something that needs color to be played properly... maybe the instructions or the controller overlays color coincides with something on screen? I don't know. I remember playing Legend of Zelda for the first time on a B&W tv and being completely confused with the candles and boomerang and things that were color coded.

 

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I'm in the middle of a manic episode, so I apologize for the wall of text.

 

I think a list of INTV games is an interesting idea. There's probably one somewhere already... I wonder if anyone has done a chronology like Dr Sparkles of Chrontendo and Chronsega fame. LOL.