First Spear

This age is kind of a motivation to now make a homebrew/Independent game. People with money and attention and focus will buy now, I think, more than ever. Several years ago when the bulk of Intellivision fans were in their 30s with more distractions (eg, family) would not move many games. Several years from now with the bulk of people in their 50s-60s, the potential audience wont care as much. Now is the time! Go make something cool and put it on a cart!

How would this be done? I am thinking of the effect in Space Patrol where the distant mountains move a little but the close terrain moves a lot, with "holes" in the closer stuff showing-through the distant stuff on occasion. Some kind of BACKTAB cycling and SCROLL trick?

What is amazing to me is the fact they could have dropped off a bag of money to Nanochess and IntyBASIC would have been born years ago with many new games out in the market, years ago.

It's not too late to give 2018 well wishes to the retrogaming sisters and brothers! Enjoy the show. https://twitter.com/IntvPrime/status/957696738470645765 HappyNewYear2018Fireworks.zip Technical difficulties arose from packing so many graphics+sound+audio into the ROM. They were figured out (thanks JoeZ), so now here it is.

A release reinisfent of Winter Games by Epyx would be cool. 2-3 totally different events.

Where can the latest IntyBASIC "constants.bas" be found for use with v1.2.9? The one I have looks like the included. Thanks! constants.bas

IntyBASIC overflow calculator Quick-and-dirty console application to be used in batch build exercises to report the number of words that are used in any IntyBASIC compiled Intellivision ROM segment. Makes it a little easier to test for negative values (ie ROM segment overflows) in scripts and/or at a console. -s = silent (no title) (optional) -m = memory amounts used (mandatory) Requires a comma-delimited list of 6 hexadecimal values Sample execution: IbOf.exe -m 0cec,1dee,287f,0889,0737,0795 IbOf.exe -s -m $0cec,$1dee,$287f,$0889,$0737,$0795 IbOf.exe -s -m 0cec,1dee,287f,0889,0737,0795 Program will subtract the supplied value from the known available ROM amount and report it in a single string for downstream parsing. Developed on/for Windows, .NET Framework 4.7. 2018-01-22 Intv Prime No warranty, no docs, just quick-and-dirty. Hope it helps someone make larger games.... IbOf.zip

Title says it all (kind-of). I have a large IntyBASIC program, was declaring ROM segments here and there, and while I have not overflowed any one region, my .asm fails to compile with this error. What did I miss? Thanks.

Should that now be set as mandatory for all "normal" IntyBASIC programs? Enable the ECS just in case it is connected, and always bypass the EXEC since it can never be used?

So many comments can be made on this one. (found in a Twitter post)

One of the best I ever got. I forgot to share this with y'all before, but here it is.

It would be cool (?) to have some kind of detection that could be done in/through IntyBASIC so a subtle change could be made to font or graphics in some way....

That sounds like something bing excellent for an Intellivisionaries interview.

It looks like we have Intellivision game titles that start with every letter of the English alphabet, except for E G X Y And we only have "O" now because of Oregon Bound. Hmm... Maybe I'm missing some?

For 2018, I will help the jokers at Intv Prime get The Minstrel's Legend ready for showing at the next PGRE.

It's time to make this even more pointless. AFAIK in El Salvador, there are no such thing as lemons. It's all limes. Here is some alternate music for the game, might sound good on the title screen or maybe as background for play (it is long and repetitive, should probably be cut up using the new MUSIC syntax/capability).

Yeah, I think there are no good practical options for "optional RAM" in any game that might come out these days... It's not like expanded GRAM to enhance runtime experience, or expanded ROM for larger games. I think the best hardware use is to have an ECS for the second AY and do it on the JLP architecture for expansiveness.

"Enhanced by ECS" I am thinking that the most practical use of this is to use (or not use) the extra AY chip. Otherwise, I can't think of an IF...THEN statement where a program might be able to use the additional 2K. Am I not being creative enough?

I would like to propose a re-release or the episode with the censor bleep, and a different jpg for the show. It would make an official variant of the release, something for collectors like my man CMart to get. Also increasing Steve C’s notoriety as the first interviewee to slip one past the Reynolds editing department.

Censor alert! 1:40:51 There should be a bleep in there. Next time, interview higher-class listeners.

Appreciated!

Mode 0,13,13,13,13 Wait Border CS_WHITE,0 Scroll 4,4,0 For borderNew=0 to 200 Step 20 : Poke $200+borderNew, $2000: Poke $213+borderNew, $2000 : Next borderNew Wait I am trying to come up with some code that will make a 4 or 8 px border around the screen, that will display the same on jzIntv and on a real cartridge as well. The above code isn't quite working, can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks. And Merry Christmas! I hope that your day has been good, if you celebrate!

First cut at some title screen music

https://twitter.com/IntvPrime/status/942595009571934209