First Spear

"I Can't Make You Love Me" By Bonnie Raitt, but the best cover was by Prince

"Gotta Stop (Messin' About)" - Prince

Don't be Cruel - Bobby Brown

"A Love Bizarre" Sheila E.

I put my loot down on one in February... Can't wait for April shipping!

"myarray" is known at compile-time.

Hey all. I have multiple [7] values in the below array. I want to pick a random index from the array where the value is [7], which means I want a 2 or 3 or 4. How can I do that in IntyBASIC? . Dim myarray(17) myarray(0) = 0 myarray(1) = 6 myarray(2) = 7 myarray(3) = 7 myarray(4) = 7 myarray(5) = 3 myarray(6) = 14 myarray(7) = 15 myarray( = 15 myarray(9) = 15 myarray(10) = 11 myarray(11) = 11 myarray(12) = 13 myarray(13) = 13 myarray(14) = 15 myarray(15) = 15 myarray(16) = 9 Or should I turn this idea on its head and instead do something like this Dim myarray0(1) myarray0(0) = 0 Dim myarray6(1) myarray6(0) = 1 Dim myarray7(3) myarray7(0) = 2 myarray7(1) = 3 myarray7(2) = 4 mynuvar = myarray7(rand and 3) ? Thanks.

You jokers actually motivated me to look at my local Goodwills and a thrift store today... Then I realized and remembered that I live in NJ and there are *no* good classic video games to be had. Back to reality...

I washed a couple of the TrueTypes through Inty Letterpress to see what they might look like on a real Intellivision. Wow, anti-aliasing really matters.

The quality is always high and always worth the wait. Do what you gotta do!

If I ever release a game, I am absolutely going to jam it in 77 tons of packaging. Then I will get you to sign one at random. Guys on AA love package variants.

I get the feeling that it was rushed, because the unit itself is too large for what it does, maybe if there was more time to engineer it would have been less conspicuous of an add-on if it was 1/2 the size and didn't look so obvious. I also get the geeling that someone mis-forecasted the amount of Intellivoice units they would sell in the Intellivision I timeframe, because it really looks clunky connected to an Intellivision II.

http://www.dadgum.com/giantlist/ I found this by accident while searching for someone else. Some gems of names in there, but it is by no means complete...

Their website doesn't show it, and web searches basically come up dry. It's probably frustrating to me only because I do digital marketing tech all day, so when I see something/someone great that isn't marketing it and potentially making less money because of it, I get a little crazy.

I got an email because I signed-up to receive Naberhod info because I bought Kroz that way. These guys, not to mention anyone else that makes Intellivision stuff and actually wants to distribute it, need to advertise. I fully support "it's ready when it's ready and we announce only when it's ready", but I hate to see things that I love, underloved, when they are actually ready. If I Google search for "boulderdash" I don't find any organic search about the Intellivision version. If I Google search for "boulderdash intellivision" the organic search results are also weak. And no Paid Search results at all.

I just paid for my copy. Anyone else on the bandwagon this morning?

Will there be any time-keeping circuitry and/or battery (CR2032) included?

Here is a question outside of the regular hardcore coding issues on this subforum: What is your point-of-view on having "feelies" ( en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feelie ) go along with an Intellivision game? I was thinking it might be interesting to copy protect a game with something off-cartridge that would be required to play. It might even add flavor to a CIB release. Even though there is a risk that folks might just "patch out" the part that requires the feelies (eg code wheel) and post a ROM on a site, do you have an opinion on how something might be done that fits in the Intellivision platform constraints?[ Just some Sunday theory, what are some things you think you think?

This has been touched on a few times in different threads I think. I am trying to capture disc-only input from Controller #2, not confusing it with keypad input. My pseudo-code is main loop: if cont2.key = 12 gosub disccheck wait goto loop disccheck: If cont2.right <> 0 and cont2.up = 0 and cont2.down <> 0 Then gosub moverightonly etc This successfully lets a disc-push to the right only go right, it does not accept diagonals, which is what I want. However, pressing [6] on the keypad still moves to the right, which I don't want. What is the right pattern for distinguishing the input? Thanks.

Hey all. I have used up all of my GRAM tiles making a title screen. The first few lines of the program, generated by IntyColor, look like this: REM stub for showing image, only for 160x96 bitmaps MODE 0,11,11,11,11 WAIT DEFINE 0,16,DataScreenTitle_bitmaps_0 WAIT DEFINE 16,16,DataScreenTitle_bitmaps_1 WAIT DEFINE 32,16,DataScreenTitle_bitmaps_2 WAIT DEFINE 48,15,DataScreenTitle_bitmaps_3 WAIT SCREEN DataScreenTitle_cards loop: GOTO loop ' 63 bitmaps DataScreenTitle_bitmaps_0: Now I need to wipe the screen clean and use a different set of tiles for a different part of the game. The IntyBASIC manual states So I am sure it is possible to clear the screen, swap out the GRAM for a different set of tiles, but I don't know how the syntax works. Can anyone point me to a sample that shows how to swap DATA<->GRAM? Thanks.

Hey all. I am looking for sound effect "patterns" used in ST games/programs/etc. If my understanding is correct, the PSG accepts a series of instructions for the discrete sound and noise channels along with envelope info to make different noises. Where can I find these, online? I'm not looking for songs per se, just the notation used to make sound effects. Thanks.

So the usage pattern is Play music Stop music Play noise channel (ie, play an explosion) Start music over ?

I ripped some of the music playing from the IntyBASIC sample code and added stuff to make noise play on button push. I am trying to make a sound similar to the hero getting kicked in Tropical Trouble. Whether Line 6 (starting the music play) is enabled, or not, the noise does not play correctly and the code never reaches line 36. Help? Mode 0,0,0,0,0 #soundTemp = 1 CLS Wait Play Simple Play Music01 Wait LoopMain: Wait If CONT.B2 Then GoSub TonePlay02 Goto LoopMain TonePlay02: Procedure Print At 23 Color 5 , "On " Restore NoiseRoll #soundTemp = 1 Sound 4 , #soundTemp , &011100 While #soundTemp <> 65535 Read #soundTemp Sound 4 , #soundTemp , &011100 Read #soundTemp Sound 0, $0000, #soundTemp For #spinWait = 0 to 5 Wait Next #spinWait Wend Sound 0, $0000, 15 Sound 4, $0000, &011100 Restore DataNullState Wait Sound 4 , #soundTemp , &011100 Wait Sound 4, $0000, &011100 Wait Print At 23 Color 5 , "Off" Return End NoiseRoll: Data $3FF , $0E , $3C7 , $0E , $390 , $0E , $35D , $0D , $32D , $0D , $2FF , $0C , $2D4 , $0C , $2AB , $0B , $285 , $0B , $261 , $0B , $23F , $0A , $213 , $0A , $1FF , $09 , $1E3 , $09 , $1C8 , $08 , $1AE , $08 , 65535 DataNullState: Music01: DATA 7 MUSIC F4,- MUSIC S,- MUSIC A4,- MUSIC S,- MUSIC F4,- MUSIC S,- MUSIC C5,- MUSIC S,- MUSIC F4,- MUSIC S,- Music Repeat Thanks. muno.bas

One of the things mentioned on the podcast was putting a label (sticky note, grease pencil, etc) on things that are valuable, as you use them, so the next person (eg spouse) can actually try to get real money for your Spiker or official set of Intellivisionaries Drinking Glasses. Myself, I try (try) to minimize what I have and get kids interested so when I go they might continue to get a little enjoyment from them and recognize they are "something". Just looking at a cart of Carol vs Ghost or Microsurgeon belies the fun baked inside. Since I don't have boxes for my titles, my wife is less inclined to be irritated at all of the carts I own, so there is a better chance they will stay in my house.

While looking for something else related to AY-3-89xx sound, I ran into a link describing a potential method for playing waveforms from the PSG on the MSX. Of course I have no clue if it is realistic on the Intellivision, just thought I'd share.