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I'm of two minds on this. Given that so many people have been actively writing IntyBASIC games for several years now, I think a standard contest would be a) a little unfair, potentially, when it comes to rookie programmers, and/or b) just not that interesting - because people are busy with active development for cart release etc So I started thinking of a different kind of contest - maybe set some artificial limits, like lines of code/KB of source, or announce the start and you have only 30 days, or something. Which of course has the reverse effect - experienced programmers have too much of an edge in something like that. Plus letting people's skills & imagination run wild usually ends up with the better results. Maybe 2 categories - brand-new entrants in one group, people who were in the contest and/or have released an IntyBASIC game in a second? And entries are judged within the groups? I'm not very good at coming up with ideas

You jackass. I thought someone found one and was selling one. I mean, not that it's particularly useful, as the ECS is one of the worst computers of its era, but still... LOL @ RAM costing almost as much as the entire computer.

Gracias!

So, I'm amused that after reading every thread here... we happily posted the cartridge ROMs, but no one's seemed to have shared the EXEC/GROM for the unit.

We've already flogged that horse to death. Even Canadian sellers get stupid on this. I don't understand the price on this one - someone enlighten me. Is Routlette CIB rare?

Yeah, it'd be nice if someone smarter (and with more free time) than me would put together the definitive list. Even if it's just a bunch of links to other sites, or various AA forum threads. We've had probably a dozen free ROMs released in the past year. Of serious, commercial-level games. Plus several dozen smaller hobbyist projects since IntyBASIC was first released.

Aaaaaaaaaaand go Canada. It's on its way to the next lucky contestant. Hopefully the next few people enjoy what's in there; it was a bit surprising to me. I did take all sorts of random odds and ends though. Some fun stuff in there. My skis needed a new sticker

OK, on further analysis... You also added a CALL CLRSCR to MAIN0. Interestingly, if I comment that out, the old value works. However, if I revert MEMSET to the 1.2.8 version, it also works with the old value. Something with these changes is what caused the problem. I don't understand nearly enough to know why. Edit: Also, I noticed something. When I'm using jzintv in PAL mode, I very quickly see the Mattel EXEC titlescreen when I reset. I'm not sure if it always did that before, but thought I'd mention it.

Thanks, that did the trick! This isn't going to break anything else, is it? Why would earlier IntyBASIC work with the previous value? Something else in the prologue that you changed I guess? Edit: I just diff'd 1.2.8 and 1.2.9. The only change you made was the MEMSET acceleration. You're not touching R2 in there, but I won't pretend to follow all the register juggling here.

OK, confirmed, it's IntyBASIC. I grabbed some older code compiled with IntyBASIC from about a year ago, and it works fine with the latest jzintv. When I compile with 1.2.9, it doesn't work. I looked in the prologue and didn't see any changes there, but I honestly don't know what you're doing for this so I'm no help

Oscar, did the NTSC constant get broken in a recent release? I have the world's simplest program: loop: PRINT AT 0,<3>NTSC GOTO loop It displays 001 even when I use -P or --pal in the latest jzintv. Or is jzintv broken?

Why hasn't someone hacked Astrosmash to ONLY play Meteor, and done a CIB release? Geez Rev, slacker!

I found a hoodie for you: https://www.gamiss.com/hoodies-11571/product1382454/ Because that's about as productive as this thread is going to be. It almost looks like bacon, too!

Yes. That must be IntyBASIC being "helpful". Good for most people, slightly cumbersome for what I'm doing. No big deal though, as long as I know what's triggering it

Just wanted to say thanks again for the add-on hardware detection that's been coded up and/or added to IntyBASIC this year. You've made my life a lot easier. First Spear's comment about IF... THEN made me realize that I'm probably writing the most complicated/involved code about this that anyone's likely to ever bother with. Oops. I've said too much.

You are SO going to love my next project.

Finally saw it. I think you guys are reading a bit too much into it. Strikes me as more coincidence than anything. I'm more surprised that people aren't bitching that it's yet another Death Star thingy. Small ships, flying in close, avoiding cannon fire, to hit a weak point and utterly destroy the Big Bad. *I* don't see it that way, but given the number of people who think Force Awakens is a 1:1 clone of ANH, people manage to find the most tenuous connections to complain about and I'm surprised I haven't heard this one yet. Pretty damned good movie, albeit a bit padded and suffered from inconsistent pacing in the first half. Best Star Wars movie since 1980 - but goddamn, would I like to see a modern movie, with today's effects and production values, but with 1980s-era pacing, runtime, and a much more limited principal cast. Blockbuster movies are really suffering from trying to compete with the 6-16 hour epics that have consumed Netflix/HBO.

Once seen... cannot unsee!

I always thought that we had 2 'E' titles already - Electric Company Word/Math Fun. Someone made this list back when Goatnom and Gosub were in development. While Goatnom doesn't have a standalone CIB (yet?), G is fully covered. Really, X is the only letter left.

I figure a 75% chance of Portland at this point. Hoping to make it 100%. Because I wanna release something... a little different this year.

Heh, yeah, I was referring to the culling that happened to make the cross-border cost not insane. There were a LOT of common carts removed, which makes sense. There's quite a lot of random stuff in here that I like. I'm going to have to think long and hard how to add enough to keep it interesting, while not just adding 6 copies of Night Stalker. Are French Canadian variants in any way desirable in Europe? We should also start discussing what happens when it's "done" - maybe the last person can bring the remainder to PRGE with them

Arrived! So, the shipping has been greatly reduced because virtually all of the games got removed Some very interesting random stuff in here though. Kinda cool. I can definitely contribute to the... eclecticness here. While I'm going to try to add some Inty games that aren't super common, for those later on the list: are there any non-Inty systems you guys are into? I have tons of spare stuff for a lot of systems. Also, I'm going to try my damnedest to fix this one cart. I think it might just be a busted leg on the one IC. If it works...muahahah.

I notice that it also enables ECS by default now - I'm having to turn it off manually for testing. Is that normal?

I've never specified anything on the command line, other than the save file itself. jzintv works fine for me. I'm not sure what you're referring to, here.

Collecting originally sealed games (or other items) is ... somewhere between hardcore awesome and OCD. Slabbing things away forever just to pump the profits of a sketchy company is a crime against humanity and should be severely punishable.