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nurmix last won the day on August 26 2014

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  • Birthday 01/05/1967

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    Gaming since a kid: Intellivison, Colecovision, Atari 2600, Odyssey 2, Atari and Apple 8-bit computers, arcade games, NES, Genesis, 7800, Jaguar, PS2, Mattel handhelds, Merlin, Pong... I have a garage arcade, and I am the creator/producer of (and a host on) The Intellivisionaries Podcast.
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  1. Makes sense. Yeah I’m not concerned with the value. I’m not getting rid of it. Since it belonged to my childhood friend it has nostalgic / sentimental value, which is more important than a few bucks! I assume the box and manual were correct, just the cart label was misprinted. I only have the manual and box for my ‘plural’ cart, so I’m not sure.
  2. Just wondering if this is a common cartridge variant. I've only ever seen this one that I have. The Star "Raider" one originally belonged to my childhood friend. He got it with his 400 in 1980 (might have been 1981). The Star "Raiders" one is my copy that came from a big box one I got in the late '90s, and the one everyone knows. I'm just curious if this was the earliest version or something?
  3. I see a lot of folks mentioning RespecQt, and it sounds really nice, but I can't find anything about where to get it. There's a general discussion thread here, but oddly enough, reading through that thread didn't give me any specifics either. Who makes it? Is it commercial? Freeware? Do I need to know a secret handshake or password to be let in to the RespecQt party?
  4. Yep. And even though I’m generally a purist when it comes to 4:3 content being displayed on a 4:3 screen (which this Dell does beautifully), I actually like ST Medium in 16:9 on this thing. It sort of “fixes” it to my eyes. It always seemed like the ugly step-child of ST resolutions, with its vertically stretched icons. In 16:9 it looks ‘normal’.
  5. We typically draw a larger more rambunctious crowd, but that’s roughly equivalent to our warm up / practice rounds.
  6. I can get that manual for you if Emily wants to bring it to the show, since you and I are geographically closer. And it will give us an excuse to get together for a Frog Bog rematch.
  7. I’m going to have to pick one of these up when you get settled and caught up.
  8. AT Games (or whatever factory they used to assemble these) weren’t exactly soldering superstars. When I was making my Dual Action Controllers, I encountered a lot of bad, cold, or just generally sloppy (sometimes missing!) solder work on the wiring daughterboards. In my experience, that was more commonly the problem than the wires themselves. For what I was doing, it didn’t matter, as I was desoldering and repurposing the matrix connectors on the daughterboards. But if it was a controller I was keeping stock and fixing, a reflow of the solder on all the wiring joints usually fixed any connectivity problems. That said, yes, sometimes it was a broken wire or two, and replacing the cable was necessary. I don’t recall encountering any problems with the Mylar circuit matrices themselves on these. Of course with older or heavily used controllers, those will eventually develop cracks and cause portions of the disc to not work too.
  9. I recently ordered a copy, very nice! And I also just became one of your Patreon supporters. Your YouTube content is amazing! The information you provide and the way you preset it is excellent. And thanks for the many references to interviews I've done on the Intellivisionaries podcast in your coverage of Intellivision games.
  10. I think you'll find a lot of interesting information here. The latter half of the video gets into this YouTuber's thoughts on what might have happened.
  11. Ah.... well... not according to everything I know personally about the situation. Activision may have used them in the past, but that doesn't confirm ownership. I'll just say there are a few reasons they got away with it, and leave it at that.
  12. Yes, but I'm not at liberty to discuss it (NDA). I was working with Intellivision at the time - 2018 until I left in 2021.
  13. The evidence you aren’t finding is leading you down the correct path. 🙂 Yes. There was an agreement in place. That was legit.
  14. Hey Intellivisionaries listeners. I'll be at the upcoming Vintage Computer Festival SoCal on February 17-18 in Orange, CA. I'll have a booth for the podcast (and my business, White Flag Computing - selling retro computer and gaming hardware and software, and maybe even some Flashback controller adapter cables if I can make them in time). The Blue Sky Rangers, Inc will also be there, as well as Intellivision BSR alumni programmers who will be doing a Q&A panel. If you're in the Southern California area, come on out, it'll be a great show!
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