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I like the fact that Intv brothers and sisters new to the homebrew/independent scene have a first reaction of sticker-shock. The more "new" people that mention prices, the better. I think it's always better to have more opinions from the market-at-large than just the most vocal and opinionated AA Inty regulars.

I am with you 100% on that. For the video game community maybe set the numbers to like 400-500 units for crossing the homebrew three hold, and it's clear. If we are going to borrow the word "homebrew" from the beer-making community we should adapt to their definitions on some way as well.

Found this stuff while looking for something else http://8bitcity.blogspot.com.br/2012/01/advanced-dungeons-dragons-tower-of-doom.html http://8bitcity.blogspot.com.br/2012/01/tower-of-doom-intellivision-manual-and.html http://8bitcity.blogspot.com.br/2012/01/beating-tower-of-doom-catacombs-12.html

The new Sprite and Landscape stuff is really, really good. Thank you!

A cool replacement controller (3d printed) housing with some kind of stylized "Running Man" embossing would look nice at classic game expos and competitions. Maybe something to merge with http://atariage.com/forums/topic/241707-intellivision-dual-action-controller/ ?

Sharing in case anyone finds the music bits useful. Mode 0 , 0,0,0,0 Wait Print At 0 Color 7 , "Arpeggios Collide" Print At 80 Color 4 , "Press top side" Print At 100 Color 4 , "button to" Print At 120 Color 4 , "restart music." Print At 160 Color 1 , "Press bottom side " Print At 180 Color 1 , "button to exit." Wait Play Simple Wait Play MyMusic Wait Goto PlayLoop PlayLoop: Wait If Cont.B0 Then Wait : Play Off : Wait : Play MyMusic If Cont.B1 Then Goto ExitThis If Cont.B2 Then Goto ExitThis Wait Goto PlayLoop ExitThis: Wait Print At 235 Color (Rand and 7) , "Bye." For spinWait = 0 to 5 Wait Next Play Off MyMusic: Data 7 Music G3 , G4 Music C4 , C4 Music E4 , D3# Music G4 , G2 Music G3 , G3 Music C4 , C3 Music E4 , D2# Music G4 , G2 Music A3 , G4 Music C4 , A3# Music F4 , D3# Music A4 , G2 Music A3 , G3 Music C4 , A2# Music F4 , D2# Music A4 , G2 Music G3 , G4# Music C4 , C4 Music E4 , F3 Music G4 , G2# Music G3 , G3# Music C4 , C3 Music E4 , F2 Music G4 , G2# Music B3 , G4 Music D4 , B3 Music G4 , D3 Music B4 , G2 Music B3 , G3 Music D4 , B2 Music G4 , D2 Music B4 , G2 Music Repeat

I am here. It is 5:02edt. Help.

I was unable to get that to run with jzintv --jlp -v1 -z1 -q -e "%jzintv%\exec.bin" -g "%jzintv%\grom.bin" SNDTEST.bin What did I miss? Thanks.

Change line 39 to Music G4Y , C2W , - I think the sound is a little better for the "Y" instrument (flute).

Hey all. I killed a bunch of productivity time for myself recently by forgetting to put appropriate guard statements in places in an IntyBASIC program. I am now considering making a little Win32 program "iblint" to scan my .bas file and make recommendations where problems might exist, for example no WAIT between MODE and PRINT, or no MUSIC REPEAT/STOP at the end of a song sequence, et . Please share your comments on what rules should be followed, could be followed, etc. I have not thought this all the way through, but if I port some table-driven rule logic from work, it would be easy to turn checks on/off as IntyBASIC (or a coder) matures. *don't code tired.

This seems like a fairly painstaking process, Nurmix. I know you do this stuff "for the love of the game", but if there is any kind of wish list of your to make this easier, what would it be? Is there a way to buy some of the parts pre-cut or something so you wouldn't have to do all if the work yourself, post-prototyping?

Another rough song. Having fun with this stuff! Polished for Mar-2016: Mode 0 , 0,0,0,0 Wait Print At 0 Color 7 , "TwinkleMe2" Print At 80 Color 4 , "Press top side" Print At 100 Color 4 , "button to" Print At 120 Color 4 , "restart music." Print At 160 Color 1 , "Press bottom side " Print At 180 Color 1 , "button to exit." Wait Play Full Wait Play TwinkleMe2 Wait Goto PlayLoop PlayLoop: Wait If Cont.B0 Then Wait : Play Off : Wait : Play TwinkleMe2 If Cont.B1 Then Goto ExitThis If Cont.B2 Then Goto ExitThis Wait Goto PlayLoop ExitThis: Wait Print At 235 Color (Rand and 7) , "Bye." For spinWait = 0 to 5 Wait Next Play Off TwinkleMe2: Data 12 Music - , - , - ' , , , Music G4X , C2Y , - ' , , , Music G4 , S , - ' , , , Music D5 , D2 , - ' , , , Music D5 , C2 , - ' , , , Music E5 , - , - ' , , , Music E5 , - , - ' , , , Music D5 , D2 , - ' , , , Music S , S , - ' , , , Music C5 , C2 , - ' , , , Music C5 , S , - ' , , , Music B4 , D2 , - ' , , , Music B4 , C2 , - ' , , , Music A4 , - , - ' , , , Music A4 , - , - ' , , , Music G4 , D2 , - ' , , , Music S , S , - ' , , , Music D5 , C2 , - ' , , , Music D5 , S , - ' , , , Music C5 , D2 , - ' , , , Music C5 , C2 , - ' , , , Music B4 , - , - ' , , , Music B4 , - , - ' , , , Music A4 , D2 , - ' , , , Music S , S , - ' , , , Music D5 , C2 , - ' , , , Music D5 , S , - ' , , , Music C5 , D2 , - ' , , , Music C5 , C2 , - ' , , , Music B4 , - , - ' , , , Music B4 , - , - ' , , , Music A4 , D2 , - ' , , , Music S , D2 , - ' , , , Music G4 , C2 , - ' , , , Music G4 , S , - ' , , , Music D5 , D2 , - ' , , , Music D5 , C2 , - ' , , , Music E5 , - , - ' , , , Music E5 , - , - ' , , , Music D5 , D2 , - ' , , , Music S , S , - ' , , , Music C5 , C2 , - ' , , , Music C5 , S , - ' , , , Music B4 , D2 , - ' , , , Music B4 , C2 , - ' , , , Music A4 , D2 , - ' , , , Music A4 , C2 , - ' , , , Music G4 , D2 , - ' , , , Music S , S , - ' , , , Music - , - , - ' , , , Music Stop 'Include "C:\Program Files( x86)\IntyBASIC\Constants.Bas" Mode 0 , 0,0,0,0 Wait Print At 0 Color 7 , "Press Side Button" Print At 20 Color 7 , "to Exit" Wait Play Simple Wait Play TwinkleMe Wait Goto PlayLoop PlayLoop: Wait If Cont.B0 Then Goto ExitThis If Cont.B1 Then Goto ExitThis If Cont.B2 Then Goto ExitThis Wait Goto PlayLoop ExitThis: Wait Play Off TwinkleMe: Data 8 Music - , - , - Music - , - , - Music - , - , - Music - , - , - Music - , - , - Music G4 , C2 , - Music S , S , - Music G4 , S , - Music S , S , - Music D5 , D2 , - Music S , S , - Music D5 , C2 , - Music S , S , - Music E5 , - , - Music S , - , - Music E5 , - , - Music S , - , - Music D5 , D2 , - Music S , S , - Music S , S , - Music S , S , - Music C5 , C2 , - Music S , S , - Music C5 , S , - Music S , S , - Music B4 , D2 , - Music S , S , - Music B4 , C2 , - Music S , S , - Music A4 , - , - Music S , - , - Music A4 , - , - Music S , - , - Music G4 , D2 , - Music S , S , - Music S , S , - Music S , S , - Music D5 , C2 , - Music S , S , - Music D5 , S , - Music S , S , - Music C5 , D2 , - Music S , S , - Music C5 , C2 , - Music S , S , - Music B4 , - , - Music S , - , - Music B4 , - , - Music S , - , - Music A4 , D2 , - Music S , S , - Music S , S , - Music S , S , - Music D5 , C2 , - Music S , S , - Music D5 , S , - Music S , S , - Music C5 , D2 , - Music S , S , - Music C5 , C2 , - Music S , S , - Music B4 , - , - Music S , - , - Music B4 , - , - Music S , - , - Music A4 , D2 , - Music S , S , - Music S , D2 , - Music S , S , - Music G4 , C2 , - Music S , S , - Music G4 , S , - Music S , S , - Music D5 , D2 , - Music S , S , - Music D5 , C2 , - Music S , S , - Music E5 , - , - Music S , - , - Music E5 , - , - Music S , - , - Music D5 , D2 , - Music S , S , - Music S , S , - Music S , S , - Music C5 , C2 , - Music S , S , - Music C5 , S , - Music S , S , - Music B4 , D2 , - Music S , S , - Music B4 , C2 , - Music S , S , - Music A4 , D2 , - Music S , S , - Music A4 , C2 , - Music S , S , - Music G4 , A2 , - Music S , S , - Music S , S , - Music S , S , - Music - , - , - Music - , - , - Music - , - , - Music - , - , - Music Repeat

I am "mixing my metaphors", I think. I am not interested in the GRAM shape location necessarily, since I don't want to change the source, but I want to reverse the bitmap image at a specific location on the screen. That way if I know I placed 3 arrows on the screen at location 3,6 and 4,6 and 5,6 but want to change what is seen at 4,6 I can have that single card change. I do not think that this is possible because there is no "buffer" between what is seen on-screen and the GRAM source, but if anyone knows of a cute way to do it, it would be the gurus on this forum. Thanks.

Can anyone share an idea or code routine in IntyBASIC (or Assembly callable from IntyBASIC) that could do a "hardware flip" of a particular on-screen card in BACKTAB? My sample use case is having 3 arrows, all sourced from the same bitmap, different colors, pointing left. I know that the first arrow needs to point right and it is at tile 4,6. If there is a way to programatically change the "facing" of the arrow, then I would rather do that instead of creating a whole new bitmap. My actual use case is doing the sample case for about 40+ different bitmaps; if it was just for a single arrow I would just redraw it or use the new functionality in IntyColor to flip stuff, but with a lot of images that gets out of hand quickly. All ideas appreciated. Thanks!

I was trying to understand the nuances of notation, now that I get that, I will try to do something with 2 sound channels. I agree that 2 sounds better than one, but up until 5 hours ago I didn't know that Ab was the same as G#, so I am learning at multiple angles Now that I have those clues, I will work on having two voices in music. I do need to figure out how to add or remove 1-2 WAIT statements between each note for all instruments to get the equivalent of a "tie" on a music staff. Pretend this is 3 notes: daaAAAaaa (tie) vs daa DAA daa (no tie). Just putting a "-" before each note (my initial idea) is not deterministic because the overall speed of the song and the other notes dictates how long a "-" actually is, when I want to dictate that myself. Hmmm...

Just today, I was in Toys R Us and saw Inty and Coleco Flashbacks for $44.99/each. Not in a clearance section. I am not sure if that means they didn't sell well, or they did (and are). It's not exactly "gift season" in the USA at the moment... I'd like to be wrong, but I think there will be no Flashback 2. I think Intellivision Productions made a minimal effort to maximize investment in the IP they already owned, and that's that. With the level they already put in, they can probably rake in a working person's salary per year and do nothing else with the consoles that are out there for the next n years. Put some money into trying new things, put the rest into "real life". One thing I caught in a recent "ask Keith" segment on an Intellivisionaries podcast was when he said something like (paraphrase) "...it's not always what do you want to do with your time, it's what do you want to do with your time left..." The context was around he or other Blue Sky Rangers making new stuff, what I got out if it was Keith Robinson was not necessarily interested in pushing his infrastructure to do more than create a small but steady stream of income.

2015-08-18 Updated again. Taking a crash course in music notation. I learned that the lack of Flats in the music player is not a big problem, as flats have a sharp equivalent. This version has an improved smell. 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I took a look at the prologue and epilogue files, hoping my limited brain could find the code that dictates how notes were played. i need to find a way to make each individual note play by default "tied", so notes will blend by default, and I can optionally add mini rest values in between each when I want them to sound individually (which is how it works now). So far, no luck. all ideas on *logue hacking are appreciated.

Do you run the screens through IntyColor to see if they will display on a real Intellivision and still leave enough GRAM for the game play?

Can anyone comment on the possibility of "envelope control" with IntyBASIC or even in Assembly on the Intellivision? Instead of Do do do dee do do I want to Do do dooeeooo do do. I am trying to think of an Intellivision song that does it, I can't, but I think envelope control is within the AY-3-891x capabilities. Thanks. EDIT : I found that this was discussed last year http://atariage.com/forums/topic/222175-wip-clowns-and-balloons-made-with-intybasic/page-3

It's funny... My brother in I played everything 2-player all the time, since we had to share the Intellivision. When we played Tron Discs, I moved with my controller and he shot/blocked. Same for AD&D. etc. Always with 2 seperate controllers. We never knew that there was an Intv hardware limitation with keypad buttons and disc, never. I think that's also the reason why we were able to find out tricks like running fast vertically in AD&D in a narrow hallway and shooting horizontally and making an arrow wall that will bounce forever until a monster hits it; there is no way you could find that out on your own since the maneuver requires 3 hands. Crazy. I think an Intellivisonaries-branded double action controller would be a great thing for those that have to play with themselves.

Very rough version of "Fur Elise". Sharing while I refine/test. Edit 2015-08-18: Added Sharps where needed. In some cases I needed Flats, so I made them Sharps also. 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These are great finds. I do have an issue with the thread title though. We all do this but in the end it hurts the ability of everyone to find out about problems or help with fixes. If this thread was called "IntyBASIC Variable Problem" or something, that would go a lot further in helping people with problems now and if anyone hits a similar issue in the future.

I'm going with an external demodulator that does 3 other things I don't need and costs $100. I wish I had room in the TV space of the living room for a VCR, but I don't. I wish there was a low-powered device that did just what I needed, but there isn't. I won't mod my console for the previous reason I mentioned, so there it is.