Gernot
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johnpcae
i like the tech demo, but i have large problems with anime, but that's a very personal thing.
i tried to start to watch, but i get headakes from it.
if i should understand the role of the characters you would have to explain them to me.
see, i really dislike this stuff, i hope you don't misunderstand me, nothing personal against you it's just because it's anime.
i might be wrong, but i can't help.
once for all the time, long ago when i was around 20 i made a drawing in anime style (what had come to my mind then?)
strangewisely (unfortunately) it's the one everybody says "great, i like it".
it's the one i most dislike of my drawings, i just kept it because i know how folks react on it and i can give my comment to it.
it's mostly because i think we have our own style we don't have to copy them but many many do.
neither it's something against japanese arts, they are beautiful, if you go back before ww2, and then it started to change, drastically, it isn't japanese no longer it's targetet on the western market and on lowest level of human senses. this because this low level sells so well and exactly here start the problems i have, it's precalculated.
i don't calculate my arts, i do them, it comes "out of my tommy" and not out of my brain, if i'm not in the right mood nothing happens.
i can't work on command (i can, but i won't), it needs a special inspiration, something which moves me inside.
i'm a textile printer and i even made tie-dyes, i still make japanese paper tie-dyes, i love that, it's meditating art everybody can do (zen? yes but as i see it)
but it's far apart from anime.
swiss textile industry adapted very much from japanese arts in the 19th century, i do like that much, but it has no connection to anime, it's like this would have been two different universes.
the whole craft of printing, dying, batik, it all comes from asia and i have big respect of this art, everything we know in this field of art we adapted from them.
maybe that's the reason why i don't understand anime, it's a sell out to me. a sell out of "spirit", exchanged with/for popularity.
it is ok to sell, every artist likes to live from his art, every craftsmen from his craft, but to me it matters a little with which goal you do that.
headake isn't the right term, actually my tommy hurts, the plexus hurts, see what it does to me?
something inside me feels extremely uncomfortable with, that's why i can't help myself.
maybe one could explain me what he thinks why it's so successful.
nevermind, i'm a sick old man
(or a child aged 7, i like rocky & bullwinkle, and that even for its style, that's what i like).
erm ok let's post something inty related
this week when i travelled to my mom i played "flapee bird" on my phone, a boy aged 7 was vis a vis and watched me playing with big eyes.
and i thought, "see that stuff would still fascinate the children, super realistic 3D graphics or not, this colored little bird has magic as much as".
are you kidding? for sure i wouldn't have lended him my phone - me i was playing
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a bit off topic, but because of special interest, he made them himself and it's a bird while he made even a raptor puppet.
it looks very much alive,
he's really a great talent and playful to.
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colecojoe.
probably he made it himself, at least that was my second thought, he's talented and it would suit.
but let's ask him.
but on the other hand, probably it's no bird, a video showed up at end with such a puppet entitled as "raptor" puppet.
ok chickens and t-rex are relatives.
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For some reason
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lathe26
for some reason?
great finding, i like that "electronic autoharp" (which it is), that's cool but most exciting is the bird he's got.
yes i guess to, that's the spirit why some do it, apart from that this is really a great toy (the bird
)that's the reason why i watch techmoan, i love his findings especially when it's "vintage" electronics.
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Who cares for Twitter.
doesn't matters, signed up only to give my vote.
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How difficult
i guess the Q should be "how unlawful".
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bikeguychicago
seriously, 446Kb only for the intro?
caugh, that's an intellivision and not a superfamicom.
as tech demo it's certainly cool, but i can't imagine this for a games title screen.
i guess you will have to stick with the static title screens, or you like to run only the title screen, then shut off insert cartridge 2 "the game".
doesn't makes much sense, no?
i didn't even know yet if the inty can handle the demo, but neither i have an idea if such a rom could be produced and second how expensive it will be.
maybe that's it, a special intellivision intro just to let play in front of a game, senseless but cool.
hey what about joes sega style "Inty" logo (lunar mp demo), that would be already cool as opener, adding voice "intellivision - the future is now"
it won't be oversized and fits to any game.
"intellivision - the next century"
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please no!
you know i smashed my console because of this game! (back in '83)
and yes exactly because of the island jumps.
i will give it a try (but i don't think i will have a chance breaking the record), in the past i bypassed this thread but i'm back for playing now.
besides the last game popeye was never my game, i never understood what the goal is, ah i dislike this ladder type of games at all, i never was a big friend of DK and anything else which followed.
(i tried but i guess i scored negative)
but bump 'n jump is cool.
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someone has to write something
seems to be a quite good offer if i compare it to what i payed for mine.
already the games are worth if you haven't them already, it's certainly a good starting position if you like to start a collection.
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It's tough to play using the touch screen, but still nice to have for testing.
is a mild expression
it's *!!(fist)**(explosion)+!(dark clouds wth lightnings) it's simply this unspeakable four letter word.
i know now why i never used my phone for gaming before, the inty was an exclusion, works halfaways to play astrosmash with autofire but it's anything else as good.
besides, does jzintv recognize the [vars] at all? (and new they are certainly not)
ok i can't run the very latest release even if they are stated as 32bit releases (they fail in win XP, it misses a instruction in msvcrt.dll but i can't exchange this vital library), the latest which runs on my rotten old PC is from september last year, but as far as i experienced it works the same as the one from october.
however in my case resp. in the release i use it doesn't recognizes it and a newer one won't run.
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what was the topic "piggy factory"?
i'm surprised that this game has ever seen the light of day, i'm even more surprised anyone else as a idiot like me can have interest with fumbling around with it.
i must say it was one of the early games which interested me when i started to play the inty emulated.
i never worked much with it but it's at least a evidence how advanced the developers was, the very first "seuck" nah ok not a "seuck", a "gack" a games application kit.
less flexible but inastead to program you just have to do the graphical work, that was really innovative and somewhat ahead of its time.
also it's interesting on who they point - on children unlike like a later "seuck" which clearly pointed on young adults.
"make it as easy and graphical interesting for children" - i like that idea.
sidenote
i recognized i once downloaded a bunch of instructions for the inty (incl. a japanese owners manual, which is almost to read like a comic strip) in it are the handbooks for BASIC (i guess it was originally ment for the keyboard component) and a second introduction to BASIC for the ECS, both have even this child appeal, it should teach or tease children to learn BASIC.
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It exists an updated version since 2017/06/13 (you might have noticed that already)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.libsdl.jzintv4droid2
The description of jzintv4droid2Android port of intellivision emulator jzintv.
Released as new app due to password forgotten, apologizes.
This new version works on newest devices, thanks to Marco Turconimaybe this will fix some problems, for the rest there are no changes to see if i run it.
i would myself have some questions, i.e. how to run a ECS game (especially for those which need it for the extra PSG channels).
roms which are known by jzIntv start properly with the ecs but there are many which aren't known.
unfortunatly jzintv didn't cares about [vars] ecs=1 in the config file so this possibility is outclosed.
but anyway it's cool to have the possibility to play Intellivision on a portable device.
ah yes, jzIntv doesn't needs the ivoice.bin for the voice emulation.
exec.bin grom.bin and ecs.bin are enough.
it differs slightly to the result in MAME but it's nonetheless closer as i guess (i posted this already), i always thought it's a issue of jzIntv that the voice in "Tag-Along Todd" doesn't stops after "let's play" ("playyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy...") when you start it, but the real intellivoice behaves exactly the same with this game (at least when you use it with LTO Flash, while there is not much else possibility to run it).
the only thing i miss for jzintv4droid is an external configuration file (or internal possibility to set the switches) and the keyboard input seems not to work.
interested in a collection of overlays nicely cutout and aligned ideal for the use in jzintv4droid?
(as compressed 8bit .png to save every possible bit space, much smaller in filesize as any 24bit .jpg of the same size)
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Suggestions welcome.
I didn't liked to make a common instruction or walkthrough for this game, i already broke the spell and awoke this sleeping beauty.
Instead i decided to writ a short story which should tell you enough to play the game but won't reveal all of its secrets.
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Tower of Mystery
(advanced with or without)
"A role playing trip into a different time"
Prolog
Our Hero faces a hard trial he should lift the secret of
the "Tower of Mystery". He passed many trials before,
mastered the "Cloudy Mountain", escaped the claws of the
"Minotaur" and won many battles. This mystical tower
looked like it was made for a hero of his size and
cleverness.
The Tower
When he arrived and examined the tower to find an
entrance he couldn't find on, there was no option left
as to climb it to see if the tower was to enter from the
top. Right when our hero climbed over the pinnacles of
the tower he could see a stairway into the tower. Soon
as he touched the ground he checked his armament. Not
much; a sword, a shield, a chain mail under it leather
skirt, a pair of magical boots in which you never freeze
and which never get wet, made of a strange orange
material (he inherited them from a time traveller). To
supply he carried enough gingerbread and dried fruits
for the trip into the tower. Very pleased he was by this
little chest in which he could carry far more things as
its small size will let assume (he "inherited" it from
the same time-traveller who due to circumstances can't
make use of it anymore).
As he stepped downstairs into the dark he couldn't
perceive anything special, there wasn't even much to
hear. He didn't expected that there will be much to
perceive except of the increasing darkness. But even his
own noises, the sounding of his steps and the rattling
of his armament seemed to be swallowed by the nearly
invisible walls. This he felt is a strange if not
mysterious fact. He doesn't had to wait long and the
first being glided soundless in his direction. Due to
experience our hero held his sword always in hand (even
at night) and he defeated it with easiness. What was
left of the being was not a corpse it was something like
glowing ashes and our hero thought "they seem to be
supernatural, it looks like this being can resurrect to
life anytime".
The Dungeon
He wasn't very surprised when suddenly the next goggle-
eyed gnome faced him and provoked him to a fight. For a
moment he thought about a return, but he displaced this
thought because this tower is not of common nature and
it could be it will cost his life if he tries to exit
the tower before he mastered the test. Soon he found the
next stairway down to the next deeper level of the
tower. But he hasn't visited the whole floor and he
decided to explore more, maybe he can find one or two
useful things. But except of an old Boot there was
nothing to find. All along his way was colored mists
which seemed to vanish and reappear. He stayed away as
good as he could, but once he had to cross a crimson
colored one it was a bad experience and in future he
took care not to cross their path, other mists seemed
to have no noticeable effect. He used them to get the
proper timing to run unaffected through such a mist.
There was even magic teleports which transported you to
a random place in the level. Since he got no harm from
this magic he decided to use them for his advantage.
He returned to the stairs and entered level two of the
tower. Except that the corridors was different to the
last level nothing differed from it. As he rested he
asked himself if it would make sense to get the old boot
which he had seen in the level above. But it would mean
he would have to go up one level and he wasn't sure what
could happen due to that. He flipped a coin and decided
to upstairs - nothing happened except that everything
was again dark around him. But he remembered well where
he saw the boot and returned with it to the second
level.
Suddenly he remembered an old man who he met on his way
to the tower, he warned him and advised him to return
before it's to late and he will get lost in the 32
levels of the tower. But how could the old man know that
the tower has 32 levels? Did he survived the Tower, has
he heard of one? Maybe he's the Wizard himself who
created this mysterious tower. But maybe it's just
grapevine or the old man like to make me scary, "Any
fear i must kill before it grows else it swallows me
faster as any of these goggle-eyed gnomes".
The Magic
On every corner he met the same luckless creatures which
little surprised him and as he fought himself through
the dungeons and corridors he viewed his almost as
friends to be called foes. He found on his way many
items of special interest and riddled about what they
might have for a use. A boot, a bottle of uncertain
color with some fluid in it which interested him less
by now as a scroll. It was something written on it and
unsuspiciously he mumbled the words while he was reading
them. As soon as he noticed his mistake he found himself
in total darkness in a different area of the level and
felt that he had luck that the magic of the spell wasn't
stronger. He started to get interested in that Bottle he
still got and risked to empty it. That was done well and
he felt like he could mess with the devil himself. As he
used up all his magical items he went to search for more
treasures, just a couple of steps from where he left, he
discovered the same bottle of the same uncertain color
and though, "That must be the same bottle as i drank
before and i'm sure here was nothing hidden before, it
seems this bottle will always return after its use".
As the time passed he began to feel mercy for the beings
in this tower. There eyes seemed to beg for mercy and
not for dead. "What if these lost souls are all valiant
heros who failed in their mission and forever can't
escape from the tower"? He decided never again to think
of such "this demon won't ride me"!
He tried once to use the boot to bribe a monster but it
didn't worked out well and he had again to depend on his
sword. Thus he decided to depend in battles on his sword
and not on his talents in conversation. As he stepped
deeper into the tower he found nmore and more items of
interest. A crooked stick which sent out flashes of
lightning if pointed against a wall, that was a very
powerful weapon and he used it with great caution until
it was used up. Deeper in the tower he found a necklace
and as he weared necklace on he felt more powerful, not
far from this he discovered a mortar, but as he picked
up the mortar the magical necklace repelled off his
neck, "That's a powerful black magic" he put his sword
beneath the mortar and it turned to a magical sword
which serviced well in beating the monsters of the
towers deeper levels. Sometimes when he reached a deeper
level of the tower magical things changed their
appearance, certain magic stopped or started.
A candlestick could be as magical as a scroll, sometimes
things had to be used others like the cloaks or books
had to be kept to make use of them, sometimes they
turned to be magical only together with other treasures.
He found two flasks along the way, both of the same
color and after the good experience with the first
bottle he drank first one and after he perceived nothing
bad he drank the second. Right when he took the first
sip he found himself in front of the mystical tower. He
met the old man a second time and he told him the same
words as before. But there was now a white cross in
front of the tower and he knew it wasn't there the first
time he passed here. Immediately he felt that he must
have been here many times and that it wasn't the second
time he met the old man. Never mind, what really worried
him that he had to get into the tower a second time to
uncover its secret magic.
The Curse
Exactly like the first time he examined his armament and
it was in the same condition as it was for the first
time. Not even the gingerbread or the dried fruits has
getting fewer. Despite all of this our valiant hero
fought himself again through the dungeons of the tower
and he felt more and more as he would have already
become a doomed of the tower. He started to make marks
in distance to the tower to count how many times he must
have passed the old man, he knew now that he had been
many times in the tower. But this only encouraged him
and he tried harder to reach his goal, "I will uncover
the secret of this cursed mystical tower!" Even when he
already felt like a doomed and didn't even counted his
markings anymore. As deeper he went into the tower (and
his claws) as faster and more powerful his enemies
became. New treasures brought success or failure, "If
only it would be possible to profit of the experiences
of the last attempts", but he could only remember it
shadowy, not their exact color or function. So he had to
experience the effect of the treasures and potions each
time new what a big handicap was.
No one can tell how many times he met the old man but
once he set his feet on the steps to the 32nd floor and
to freedom. To his surprise he found himself right in
front of the tower and there was no white cross to see
anymore. "Finally i've made it, i mastered the Tower of
Mystery", and was about to celebrate his victory as he
noticed a vellum with words and numbers scribbled on it.
+-----------------------+
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| Strength 13 |
| Stamina 4 |
| Charisma 3 |
| Level 32 |
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| ID ##80 - #### - #### |
| Password #### |
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+-----------------------+
He thought, "Am i of such a weak character, me who
mastered so many battles?" Unconsciously he mumbled the
numbers while he read them and like through magic he
found himself exactly above the stairs to the 32nd level
and to freedom. Immediately he wanted like to get one
level higher to the stairs to the 31st floor. After a
couple of tries he noted following:
+-----------------------+
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| Strength 13 |
| Stamina 4 |
| Charisma 3 |
| Level 31 |
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| ID ##79 - #### - #### |
| Password #### |
| |
+-----------------------+
He tried it further but thought it won't be as easy as
it looks right now. And like assumed after a couple of
floors this method didn't worked anymore.
As he entered the tower once again for a new time,
fearless knowing that to die in the tower is not like
the real dead. He even met the old man again, but this
time he had a different smile on his face if not to say
a demonic laughter and our valiant hero started to
freeze.
He wanted to get released from the spell of the Tower of
Mystery and went to the nearest settlement. But the
numbers didn't let him rest, even when he amused himself
he had to think of them. One morning he woke up in cold
sweat and thought it must have all been a nightmare, but
there was this vellum and his own notes and they was an
evidence for that it wasn't a dream. So he had to return
to the Tower of Mystery again and again to uncover its
final mystery.
It's no secret that he became a doomed of the
Tower of Mystery.
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$70
https://www.worldsgamestore.com/store/p142/INTELLIVISION_FLASHBACK.html
how many % is that for the wallmart 3rd party seller?
and i have already an idea who that ominous 3rd party seller could be - virgin games from uae.
divorced or not my berber woman was right "the arabs are all bandits".
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about $40 to $50 in the arabic emirates?
those poor sheiks - sorry emirs
(could it be? ....nah, never)
very unkind
Virgin does not deliver to any residence outside of the United Arab Emirates.
not only that we can't buy them - how many they will have in stock and they will never leave the emirates?
they are really greedy!
(can they at all read latin letters? whatfor they need them? shall play domino or someting)
we need a commando, immediately call the president.
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coin operated?
interesting, i can't find a coin-op piggy bank (vice versa neither).
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what do i know?
wasn't infamous consoles sold anytime (apart from the fact that the Inty isn't infamous), i watched some clips aboiut failed consoles and was surprised what and how long certain things have been sold.
was there any reason to have pong consoles after the VCS? but they was still sold.
it can be a wide palette of purchasers, from "grandma" who liked tro buy an affordable christmas present to the young dude with little money.
a misunderstanding?
when i worked for a recycler (it was a week or two past x-mas) i noticed a lot of unicycles in the trash, i assumed the children liked to get a monowheel and got instead a unicycle as present.
well some might have get an unicycle as x-mas present instead of a monowheel (caugh).
one can live by small percentages.
just look at all the crap (snake oil in this case) which is being sold, sardine-cans for the power socket to prevent from "evil waves" for €400.- (an empty tin can for €400.- !), but if i can sell this obvious fraud to only a thousendst of residents in europe (740mio) i'm a rich man. subtracting the production costs for an empty tin can round about €2'500'000.- profit. and certainly you will find one idiot beneeth a thousend who will buy it and will be satisfied by how well the sardine-can influences his new life, yes he even stopped smoking because of this magical thing (and that's worth €400 don't you think so?).
i stay with my intellivision, it didn't keeps me from smoking but it humms as well.
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There needs be an option for a blue background.
definately, every good space game has a blue background.
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why?
it is a playable game, there's no question about that (it leaks a bit of persuasion compared to sensible massacre)
but on the rest i wouldn't bet.
to be honest me to, i didn't thought for a second that it was 1th of april yesterday,
and by receiving something useful i didn't thought further about it.
I like the title screen, something must have inspired nanochess - panini stickers?
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to sad inty rox hasn't made it
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pardon me intellivotion but i didn't liked to spoil the fun.
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Looks like a game for my buddy he can throw now legally sodacans at the player(s) (soda? me i only drink beer and throw fireworks on the field, i have a reputation to lose)
@intellivotion if i'm allowed to i will make one.
If that is the "gold" edition the final game will be "platin"?
Maybe it would have been wise to start with the "cardboard edition", it leaves more space for further changes.
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lost a post but it was off topic anyway. (shit, i told a whole fairy tale and now its vanished, i'm really old)
but hey at least i watched an episode and i'm still alive