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Hey there went through some odd issues with Intellivision, seems to be an endangered system and dying breed, the parts are scarce and the systems seem to be defective a lot.

 

Is there a repair guy or gal here on ship?

Is there a plan to make or release a 3rd party Intellivision system?

Unlike all of our classic systems this one seems to be the most dying one, it's a shame because it is a wonderful system!

 

 

 

Any answers would be highly valued

 

#issues My INTV 1 powers on plays great BUT the controllers no longer work right

 

#Issues my 2nd INTV 1 powers on but that is all

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Getting a black screen on the one system? Clean the cart port well and try again. If it is another issue please give details.

 

Controllers are bad on the other one? Open and clean them as detailed in several places on the net. You have nothing to lose if they are not working now.

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If the controllers are the only issue you can replace them with new "Flashback" controllers. Just buy a cheap flashback on ebay or ask intellivisionlives.com if they will stock controllers again, Re-configuring the wires or an adapter is required.

 

Controllers can be repaired. Sometimes cleaning is needed, Sometimes the cable needs replacing. What exactly doesn't work with the controllers (ie. specific buttons, specific directions) Open it up and inspect the plastic circuit. If the plastic circuit looks good it might be repairable. Test the second Intellivision controllers on the first system. They are easily unpluggable once you remove the Intellivision top cover.

 

Now sure if you bought these recently, but only buy tested working Intellivisions. "Untested" could also mean not working.

 

edit:

Ask kevtris about his fpga video game system and Intellivision controller and cartridge support. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/263325-analogue-nt-mini-hardware/

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The only issue here is I need a cart port

but this is cool

 

I understand you have invested in carts, but I've given up on that technology as it's prone to break down as yours has. I doubt I would have the patience to keep finding old systems that actually work correctly.

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I don't think that the owner of the Intellivision hardware intellectual property rights (Keith Robinson?) is interested in doing it, but licensing the Intellivision hardware (something like MIT license) I think could be cool: the IP rights holder would keep the hardware "alive" and if there is a company willing to manufacture at scale, the rights holder could get a monetary percentage. Something like an FPGA-based thing that had the Intellivoice and ECS built in, with the additional ECS IO ports, and additional hardware switches to enable/disable Intellivoice or ECS.

 

I was re-reviewing the ZX Spectrum Next, thinking it would be great to have an Intellivision Next.

 

 

Hey there went through some [snip]

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Getting a black screen on the one system? Clean the cart port well and try again. If it is another issue please give details.

 

Controllers are bad on the other one? Open and clean them as detailed in several places on the net. You have nothing to lose if they are not working now.

Yeah both barely operate suddenly

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If the controllers are the only issue you can replace them with new "Flashback" controllers. Just buy a cheap flashback on ebay or ask intellivisionlives.com if they will stock controllers again, Re-configuring the wires or an adapter is required.

 

Controllers can be repaired. Sometimes cleaning is needed, Sometimes the cable needs replacing. What exactly doesn't work with the controllers (ie. specific buttons, specific directions) Open it up and inspect the plastic circuit. If the plastic circuit looks good it might be repairable. Test the second Intellivision controllers on the first system. They are easily unpluggable once you remove the Intellivision top cover.

 

Now sure if you bought these recently, but only buy tested working Intellivisions. "Untested" could also mean not working.

 

edit:

Ask kevtris about his fpga video game system and Intellivision controller and cartridge support. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/263325-analogue-nt-mini-hardware/

 

 

The system was fine

 

suddenly one day I started playing the controllers seemed to have a stroke like the brain did not function anymore 1 was select 2 was 4 and so on no way to even play or start a game

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The system was fine

 

suddenly one day I started playing the controllers seemed to have a stroke like the brain did not function anymore 1 was select 2 was 4 and so on no way to even play or start a game

 

By 'select' do you mean 'enter'. Usually if controller circuits are damaged keypad presses could produce a disc direction but not other keypad functions. Usually some controller functions stop working. Maybe it's mechanical and just needs controller cleaning. Open it up and unplug one controller to see if its one controller that causes the problem.

 

I don't think that the owner of the Intellivision hardware intellectual property rights (Keith Robinson?) is interested in doing it, but licensing the Intellivision hardware (something like MIT license) I think could be cool: the IP rights holder would keep the hardware "alive" and if there is a company willing to manufacture at scale, the rights holder could get a monetary percentage. Something like an FPGA-based thing that had the Intellivoice and ECS built in, with the additional ECS IO ports, and additional hardware switches to enable/disable Intellivoice or ECS.

 

I was re-reviewing the ZX Spectrum Next, thinking it would be great to have an Intellivision Next.

 

I don't think there is any hardware intellectual property anymore. There were some patents on the controllers and perhaps other components but that would have been up long ago. Mattel never owned any IP on the chipset anyway, it all belonged to General Instrument / Microchip Technology. There is existing copyright on the EXEC code but an fpga system would be designed such that the user supplied their own exec copy.

 

Edit: the Analogue NT Mini can be an fpga Intellivision once kevtris ports the already completed fpga Intellivision system to it and makes a controller interface. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/242970-fpga-based-videogame-system/?p=3326314

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