Yosikuma

I’m glad I am not the only one wondering whatever happened to this game!

Great; ordered!

Is this still a thing one can purchase?

I was recently gifted two US toaster-style NES consoles. I can’t really get them to do much other than to do the flashing that one associates with the 10NES chip’s antics. Is there a way I can be sure that the 10 NES is at fault?

Is there any word as to the progress of this game?

So weirdly enough, I opened the system up, replaced the TIA (it's a socketed chip) and that -- somehow -- fixed the issue.

Hey Nanochess, thanks! I'm actually following your book and trying to get some artwork transferred to the Intellivision as we speak!

Wondering if anyone has had similar issues. I am using FinalGROM on my TI-99/4A with 32K and speech attached. It works mostly flawlessly with most programs that use speech (Parsec, Alpiner, Bigfoot, etc.), but there have been a few where chunks of speech get completely garbled -- certain sentences in Rasmus Moustgaard's Pinball 99 and the scores being read in Tennis by Nicesoft become complete garbage outside of "love." Has anyone else experienced these bugs? Is there a remedy to these weird bugs?

Thanks. I was using a different graphics program but since I have Photoshop, I may as well do that. I appreciate it!

Does IntelliTool import graphics? I have never used it. I've been having difficulty judging exactly where my 8x8 cells are when importing graphics using IntyColor so I was seeing if there was perhaps a better way than what I'm doing.

Outside of IntyColor, does anyone have tools or suggestions on getting better ways of importing graphics into their programs?

There were some games on The Internet Archive and several of those worked when others didn't.

Any specific ones? I know I had some from another set of games but I need to remember where I got those from.

I have been using Pitrex Baremetal, found at http://vide.malban.de/pitrex/pitrex-baremetal-download. Did you get the ROMs from the directory I responded to above? At least Star Wars worked for me there.

My understanding -- and mind you, it's been literally DECADES since I have attempted to program in XB or on the TI in general -- was that despite the abilities XB gave, it had an extremely limited ability in terms of speech. I recall the manual having a list of words it knew, and it would spell everything else out at an agonizingly slow pace. If you were able to work within those limits or find a workaround, it could be worth it.

It's a long shot, but I figured I would try here: I grew up with the TI-99/4A and loved tinkering with the speech synthesizer and the Terminal Emulator II cartridge. I remember a family friend gave us disks of tons of user group software written in BASIC and Extended BASIC, and one was a program with blocky hastily-drawn robots who would tell each other lame jokes. To differentiate between the two robots, one's voice was deeper than the other. After each lame dad joke, the robots would "laugh" with a very emotionless dry "HA HA HA." "Ha ha ha." Does anyone know what I am talking about, or where I can find it? I would love to run it on my TI but could also use suggestions as to how to get it on floppy or runnable as a cart on my Final GROM. Thank you in advance!

I ordered the physical version of this (being a Harmony cart owner the digital was out of the question). Can't wait to play this -- it's quite an achievement from the looks of it! I know the shift away from AA was a pain but glad you're still doing your thing!

I'm anxiously awaiting word of this! It looks superb.

God bless you. It works swimmingly now! You don't know how giddy you got me!

I'm probably an idiot, but I finally got the PiTrex working -- great news! -- but I get "some ROMS not found" when trying to run Star Wars on the current BareMetal version. I'm not even sure how to find which ROMS it can't find. Can anyone steer me in the right direction?

So I went ahead and just got a new fresh 32GB card, copied all of the Bare-Metal Malban files direct from the SD_DRIVE in the .ZIP file into the root directory of the card (giving me directories like ROOT, ROMS, SAMPLE, etc. now on the root of the card). With this new card a light flashes on my PiTrex (I assume that's what's flashing green!) twice but again, nothing happens. Ideas?

Hoping someone could help me out. I recently got a PiTrex with the cartridge case, a PiZerovWH, and formatted an SD card in FAT32. I then downloaded the baremetal archive, and took all of the files iN THE SD_DRIVE in the .ZIP file and threw it into the root directory of the SD card. I tried to pop the cart into my Vectrex and got a black screen. It never seems to display anything. Can anyone help? Has anyone else had this issue?

Dumb question: does IntyBASIC have an option to turn off the screen, say for hiding a screen draw?

I am curious why they would flat out discuss incompatibilities without attempting to fix them.

So I have been tinkering with IntyBASIC for a bit, and I have decided to go ahead and try to make an adventure game (a la a point and click game, though I feel a pointer may be a waist of my precious MOBs and figuring paths may be a pain!). However, in my mind, the controller would seem to be far more at home in something where you advance a story and solve puzzles than something more action oriented. Before I bite far far far more than I can chew, I had concerns about game size. Since the game would certainly be more dialogue heavy, this is a concern. Would I need to contemplate text compression? Hoping I can show some progress here in due time!