First Spear

Rumor has it that Intv Prime is considering allowing some people to "donate early" to the game, to get into the game. There are a few places for see NPCs, so instead of filling them with generically represented characters, they would be represented by people that pay to be stamped in the game. Since the release will be charityware with no profits made, Intv Prime is looking at ways to defray some of the overhead with production costs by letting a few people be "immortalized" in a cartridge. For example, instead of buying equipment from "The Merchant", wouldn't it be cool to buy equipment from "The Merchant Cee Marto"?

I use Paint Shop Pro (Windoze .exe, have owned it for years), really capable with lots of "undo" functionality and layers which lightweights like me can use.

http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/headline-story/14353/small-chess-program-bootchess-nanochess/ 2015 - a spoilsport was talking trash about Nanochess. What do we do? Hmm....

Hey everybody. Jawcrusher: I got mine... You better get yours! This game is very well done!

For what its worth, the folks on AA tend to band together in other things, so maybe you all could make a kind of joint want list with names of seekers-to-games, and when say LFII comes along you all agree that only the first person (or first and second if first is unavailable) bids to win. Next auction it goes to person #3, etc. it would not fix everything but it would at least keep the infra-AA bidding wars to a minimum. The idea is to get individual Brotherhood members to complete their collections, and get the CIBs out of the hands of pure capitalists that dont actually love the Inty, right?

Awesome. Is it possible to put an ASM command into IntyBASIC that would end up as a breakpoint in the runtime code, so the game could run until it hit a certain point, and then I could use the gt command or F8+G? Thanks.

As a variant of this, have you seen anything in your travels that would start at BACKTAB position 0 and print the contents of GRAM item 0 to 63?

As always, thanks for sharing the awesomeness! I cracked open the psg2bas.bas file and saw this: ' Just to allow to TV synchro start successfully FOR c = 0 TO 60: WAIT: NEXT c I have not seen that before. Should that be a standard initialization routine for IntyBASIC stuff these days? Thanks.

The ice physics options are many. A 4-way Intellivision cartridge molded with white plastic and al the right Olympic decals. The mind boggles! If I hit the lottery, you guys are f——ed with the amount of stuff I would flood the market with...

With the stuff our Intellivision Don Dada shared (http://atariage.com/forums/topic/275183-intybasic-accelerationvelocity-demo/), I could see a new game - Curling - as a game release, maybe a double-ender with Hockey and call it USA Winter Gold!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6zYvbyYyl0wphMyZmO19k1L5GoRUbOJRZYfDq__vhVCYmFQ/viewform?c=0&w=1 I think there are a few Intellivision developers and a BSR or 2 that could be nominated...

I heard that the game will use the revolutionary JLP architecture, which allows for game saves, expanded use of variables, and accelerator for some math/move operations (doesn't make a game faster, but lets a game stay at the same speed without slowing down for computationally-heavy ops). The game uses a lot of ROM (Freewheel Games clocks in their latest release at 92k, The Minstrel's Legend will be at least that), which also means using JLP. So, no battery, just Flash RAM for saving. The idea is to finish a game in 1-2 hours, and be motivated to play again, so saving probably won't be very necessary. The nerds at Intv Prime have put some thought into the replay value. Because TML is an Intellivision "RPG-ish" game, when a player completes the game they can play again and due to multiple paths and programmatic/random parts, winning once is not give a full formula for winning again. In contrast, a full RPG like Ultima V on the Apple II guides the player on a single path, when a player completes the game (n-hours/days later) they have little motivation to play it through again.

Youtube, or it didn't happen.

Are there any good photos of the contest while it was happening? I dimly remember seeing a photo with rows of contestants in action but Im old so that may not be accurate.

Some of these links are broken. Could anyone comment on their content, before I go hunting (again) in the Wayback Machine? http://www.gamescollection.it/collections/a/138 http://www.schells.com/cc3.shtml http://home.earthlink.net/~classic-videogames/intellivision/index.htm http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/158794-astrosmash-remake

I had a moment to check out the music. Very well done! Adding the drums are not easy, and keeping the speed setting to 14 also allows the CPU to do other things. Great job, sir!

Is there a Youtube of the music selections? We always like to see the AY get a workout.

I was going to try my hand at some tunes like the win or loss screen. But if you have things ready, I will back-out.

Good idea. It can’t hurt to spread the love. I wish we had enough stuff to do a Webring again.

Does anyone have these sitting on their SSD somewhere, before I get into the tedium of harvesting these by hand? Thanks.

I am still open to buying an RGB-modded Inty...

It is always great to read about other Intellifam stories. Thanks for sharing yours! I am near the Too Many Games con, and might try it this year, hopefully add more Inty flavor to the place. I did try to advertise with them, they were happy to take my money but didnt actually give me any proof my ad ran, so Id say their business practices kind of suck. But the show does look fun. Trade off there...

E-A-G-L-E-S... Eagles! Rumor has it that some 4th quarter motivational music from their local retro Intellivision place really got them moving! Just a few of the game time highlights:

Mark me "in" for the Loot Box. Appreciate the organizers, organizing!

I think we got some of this with "Scarfinger" http://www.intellivision.us/intvgames/scarfinger/scarfinger.php There might be a better way of doing it in 2018 though, with all that the coding community knows now, compared to 2005. Might be.