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Folks have pretty much covered the differences. As long as you don't use the Tape interface or the Aux interface (for printer), you're fine. If you try to use them anyways, nothing bad will happen, they just won't work right.

I imagine adding a snow level and a Santa hat would be easy with this game. 😉

Do we know the name(s) of this person(s)? If someone is willing to share ROMs, I see no issue with sharing their info (e.g. so publishers can blacklist them). Side note: I know some games in the past were not LTO protected but did have each purchaser's info embedded in each individual ROM. That way, the publisher knew who leaked the ROM. However, this might be too much extra work for the publishers since only a few ROMs got this treatment.

Purchased!

Just played all of them. Good simple fun for Xmas. Thanks!

I'd love a copy of Piggy Bank encased in BBWW's wood. 🪵

I opened it up. The motherboard has the metal shield soldered on the top and bottom so there is nothing to see until the shield is removed. I forgot to take photos of the power supply, sorry.

Another loose Intellivision to add to the database: 000998. Not the lowest number, but pretty low.

Besides Cmart, I also tried to bring the sexy but everyone told me to take it back for a refund. 😞

That's close to my numbers for Tutor Pros. I've been tracking the serial numbers. While there are definitely more out there, I've counted 17 with INTV88 boards in them. Of those, 7 have the WBEXEC, 5 have the Mattel EXEC, and 5 don't know which one they have.

It's been a several months now but I just finished getting through the intro music on Episode 47. Whew! I hope to be able to give feedback on episode 49 soon.

Excellent find! Based off of the serial number alone, odds are very good that this is a full Tutor Pro, but it still needs to be confirmed. Of the 5 other Tutor Pros known in the 30000 serial number range, 4 of them were full with the WBEXEC and 1 had the Mattel EXEC.

Interestingly, Google Translate was able to successfully translate it but it had to ask the following question: Caveat: I am definitely not an expert in Spanish. Google Translate is about as much as I know.

At this point, how many have been built and how many are on order? Just curious about the market size.

Wow! That one is in beautiful shape!

Is there a serial number visible on the box? Mattel put serial numbers on the box but I don't recall if Intv Corp did for the Super Pro Systems.

The Modern Gaming section is a collection of threads for modern gaming. The Amico thread is always in the top 10 thread. https://forums.atariage.com/forum/21-modern-gaming-discussion/

That gif looks oddly familiar...

Unfortunately, Intellivision items just don't sell as fast as other, newer consoles. That's fine. A joke I often share with retro video game store folks is: The two happiest days for a retro video game store owner is when someone walks in with a huge box of Intellivision gear and 5 years later when someone finally buys the huge box of Intellivision gear.

NGL, at first glance I though this was stating Paul passed away in 1992. 🪦

There are some SIPO chips that are open-collector outputs (assuming you're referring to SPI-like interfaces from the 7400-series family) but they are a slightly trickier to find. There are also some I2C-to-GPIO chips that give full control of input vs output and output open-collector vs output push-pull. These would save you some parts and board space but not sure if the price takes a jump or not. These chips are referred to as "I/O Expander" chips. Just did a quick search: 74LS596 on Digikey is a SIPO with open-collector outputs, though this particular part has a high-ish price (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/texas-instruments/SN74LS596N/13478375). There are likely cheaper equivalents out there (I didn't look too hard). If you're willing to do a little more work in SW, Digikey has multiple chips available that are cheaper than above. For example, MCP2317 and MCP23S17 by Microchip are both less than $1.80 and have 16 GPIO pins. That would be only 1 part to handle both Intellivision controllers. The main difference between the two parts is that one is I2C (up to 1.7 MHz) and the other is SPI (up to 10MHz).

An alternative to using the isolation methods about is to configure the Arduino GPIO pins to be open-collector outputs with your Arduino firmware. This means that when your firmware writes a 0 to the pin then pin is grounded and when your firmware writes a 1 to the pin then the pin is floating (not driven to +5V). This relies on the Intellivision's internal pull-up resistors. The downside is that you have to make sure that you don't have a bug where the firmware changes the GPIO pins to be push-pull (i.e., pin outputs either ground or +5V).

I'm waiting for the sequel to Amigo Cornhole...

Bill's 640K quote is always good for a laugh. The weird thing is that the 640K limit was actually created by IBM.

Super sketchy folks! Ewww!