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Hey all. Feeling jealous that we dont have any new Intellivision apparel to rock. Maybe Intellivision Productions is coming out with a Summer fashion line?

Because the Intellivision faithful on AA are loved, Intv Prime just published an info update - go

Edited the original with a .zip containing the bin and cfg, and a path to the new music functionality. I think I get the award for the longest-running pain in the butt for Nanochess regarding IntyBASIC sound/music, btw.

I was wondering about the linear offset, it is "better" for the sake of speed to work in 1 to 199 or -99 to 99? It's premature optimization and all that, but if there is a performance penalty I can dodge I'd like to understand the tradeoffs. Thanks.

You'll have to start jzIntv with something like this to make it work. start jzintv --jlp -b10 -v1 -z "640x480,8" -E "C:\Program Files (x86)\jzIntv\bin\ecs.bin" -e "C:\Program Files (x86)\jzIntv\bin\exec.bin" -g "C:\Program Files (x86)\jzIntv\bin\grom.bin" thissong.bin alwaysonrun.zip To build, use the Alpha bits from https://github.com/nanochess/IntyBASIC.

Hey all. From manual.txt: Using PRINT for numbers always show numbers as unsigned from 0 to 65535 I plan to store values in an array, each value one can be from -99 to 99. For debugging, since I can't PRINT the values on-screen, what is a smart way to watch the values? Thanks.

The timing on your work is pretty interesting. I think that there is a Chiptune get-together in the UK fairly soon. It would be interesting for the folks there to see what you've done! Check out these Twitter posts and the associated Tweets https://twitter.com/IntvPrime/status/993227346994921473 https://twitter.com/IntvPrime/status/992908249518231552

Really, really, really cool. Even though it's a niche within a niche, that does not reduce the level of awesomeness at all. Two AY sound chips brings a lot of music horsepower. Wow!

Kind of OT - it would be really cool* to see a real Intellivision utility/tool belt as a collector item. Something to hold carts, spare Flashback controllers, a way to quickly draw/stow overlays, Eye drop bottle container, and a candy bar holder. * “cool” is subjective.

Hey all. I bought a .ROM - VERY MUCH WORTH IT.

And next... Intellivoice? ECS? System Changer?

What is the fast/elegant way to pick a random BACKTAB tile within a square area? In this example I want to pick one between 92/97/172/177. Should I be thinking about this in terms of "X/Y coordinates" instead of BACKTAB locations? Thanks.

Wow! I am basically doing exactly that for a game I am developing. Until I saw this, I thought that I made up the idea myself (don't know whether I should smile or frown). Well, at least I know I am following something tried and true. Very cool!

Hey all. For those of you with a full Intellivision II setup with ECS, would you mind hooking up 4 controllers and taking a few photos at different angles? I don't have 4 controllers to stage that myself. It doesn't have to have Nice Ideas Soccer playing or anything, just the console set for 4. Thanks sisters and brothers!

What is another good term to describe "scrub brush", the kind of hardscrabble earth with thickets that is difficult to march through with low bushes (not really trees)? Thanks.

Hey all. Is there a way to make the border a color (eg blue) that is only 4 pixels wide, with the "inner" 4 pixels remaining black? The screen is in CS mode. I think the answer is "no" or I would have seen it by now, but I thought I would ask. Thanks!

I think that this would be cool. Although it is a port, it's pretty obscure. Apparently it was tried by Gary Kato of Demon Attack fame but he wasn't able to finish it. I think to make it happen, one of us would have to change our first name to Óscar, then start coding.

I have this idea in my head that IP has the equivalent of Prince's Vault, miles and miles of stuff that is under-cataloged and unreleased. I am guessing there is something on graph paper or some .ASM with a real graphic, it's just that it hasn't been leaked yet...

In Color Stack Mode, background is black on the entire stack. Attempting to change foeground color of a tile works fine if the color is from 0-7, but the higher numbered colors (for example CS_BROWN) are not working. I am pretty sure this goes back to "magic numbers" and my AND NOT but I don't see where I am messing up. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I did look at http://knox.ac.free.fr/inty_workshop/to get a clue but didn't... For colorCycleLoop = 0 to 5 tilePaintColor = ColorsTanShort(colorCycleLoop) #BACKTAB(133) = (#BACKTAB(133) AND NOT $0007) + tilePaintColor Wait: Wait: Wait Next ColorsTanShort: DATA CS_BROWN , CS_DARKGREEN , CS_BROWN , CS_DARKGREEN , CS_GREEN , CS_TAN Thanks.

Does anyone have anything real for this game in terms of an actual screen shot or prospective box art? All I could find is this: http://www.mocagh.org/intvother/mattel-83catalog.pdf Thanks.

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Hey all. I think the latest Intellivision FAQ is still v0.7 from Larry Anderson (visible at http://www.intvfunhouse.com/faq/),is that correct? There is also http://atariage.com/forums/topic/156940-intellivision-history-very-long-read/and http://www.intellivisionlives.com/faq/home.shtml But is there one single corpus of knowledge? Thanks.

I have these two lines of code to put something on the backtab, and then set the color. I want to put it into one line; can anyone (1) condense the code and (2) point me to a reference so I can understand more? #BACKTAB(#varc) = $0807 + (#vara* 4 + #varb) * 8 #BACKTAB(#varc) = (#BACKTAB(#varc) AND NOT $0007) + CS_TAN

Wow. Thank you for continuing to update this! I am about to start work, all full of myself, so I stop in here to get humbled. Mission accomplished!

I think the general consensus* is that original games have held up better over time, because now with emulation anyone can play the original games. So the Colecovision's claim to fame with having a good port of for example Time Pilot or Congo Bongo doesn't mean much in 2018 because the arcade version is actually the best. But get an original game from 198x like Utopia or Dungeons & Dragons and you have something that continues to play well. For 21st century original stuff, check out what's published by Intellivision Revolution or Naberhood Games or Left Turn Only as your first move. Originals! I understand that the jokers at Intv Prime are grinding away at an RPGish (ish) type of game as well. Originals! *consensus in my head.