mr_me

January 30

Windows 7 is still the second most popular PC operating system by far, about double all mac osx systems combined.

Since many of those win7 computers aren't win10 compatible, switching to linux is not a bad idea. Is there any urgency to do so. Microsoft may have dropped support but the browsers still support it. Antivirus and malware software will continue to support it for a while like they do xp.

January 30

On 1/26/2021 at 8:39 PM, orange808 said:

I'm not impressed.

The CPU benchmarks are a different story. Perhaps there will be Groovymame/Groovyarcade support for the VCS. That would be an appealing use case for the machine. Although, it would need proper driver support, because we can already get wrong speed or frame rate conversion on other PC's. I want the refesh rate to perfectly match the source (not get close with mode lines). The VCS has one predictable GPU configuration, so that could be an advantage. I'd love to see a turnkey Groovymame console solution.

You want to connect the new vcs to an old crt?

January 29

In windows, the joystick is seen as a pov hat and the spinner as an analog axis. They both work in stella with proper mapping configured.

January 29

8 hours ago, Intellivision Master said:

Right. I'm just wondering if they'll be a tech support department. If not then I guess customer service will have to do.

How about a "customer experience" department.

January 29

Plex arcade is based on some streaming software called Parsec, which you can get independently. I'm not sure but I think Parsec (not plex arcade) might enable internet multiplayer play. That would be interesting to do with these old games.

January 28

1 hour ago, 0078265317 said:

Not legally.

Atari Vault on Steam

edit:

The strange thing about the plex arcade system, if I understand it correctly, is that you need two computers for it to work. A PC to do be the streaming server and another device to play on. So you aren't even streaming from their servers.

January 28

That board is old; from 1980 and probably made in usa. Intv didn't start making intellivisions until 1985 and who knows when these localised for the middle east were produced. What's the interface between the pal daughterboard and the main board. With all the glue on the stic chip it looks like an ntsc board converted to pal.

January 27

That's a mechanical problem with the intellivision controller flex circuit. Each keypad button grounds two pins. Those pins are shared with the disc and side buttons. If pressing a keypad button grounds only one pin you inadvertently get a disc direction. But it shouldn't trigger a side button action.

January 27

10 hours ago, leech said:

I've hooked my Steam Controller up to the VCS, can't remember if it worked or not. The DS4 worked as a mouse though.

There was talk on the Atari Discord about maybe doing a revision with an access panel on the bottom. Kind of hard to figure out with the way the case is designed. Doesn't help that the motherboard has the ram on the bottom with the cpu on the top and the two m.2 slots on the top as well.

To be fair, it's not hard to open up and put them in yourself, assuming you have the basic skills of putting together a PC.

The ps4 trackpad looks uncomfortable as a gaming mouse.

I haven't seen any notebook computer that has more than one or two screws to access ram. The VCS not only has all those screws, there are a number of other things to disconnect that can break if you're not careful. Skills are more in line with notebook computer repair than PC maintenance. With no bottom access panel, ram should have been on top.

January 26

Anyone try a Steam controller. It has a mouse/trackpad on a game controller.

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7 hours ago, zzip said:

The video I watched had too many parts that needed to be removed to get to the RAM. Everything you take out has the potential to get lost or break. Maybe they did it wrong, IDK. But I would want a device that has RAM that is intended to be user upgraded to just have a compartment lid that pops off. Like the STe, or even better, modern laptpops

They obviously knew it needed an access panel for the ram. It was omitted to save cost.

January 26

14 minutes ago, Greg2600 said:

Always heard that, but are Mattel suing sites who hosted roms of the MOTU 2600 or INTV games? Nope. Selling a reproduction cartridge would lead to intervention, simply releasing the rom, they won't care.

I don't see anyone spending thousands of dollars to simply leak the rom; it could happen.

January 26

1 hour ago, NIAD said:

A lawyer is a lawyer and when they send a C&D Letter, it’s high time to seriously consider what your next action will be because their next action could range from nothing as they were just trying to put the “fear of God” in you or it could be very serious.

It’s easy to champion for someone else to acquire the prototype or rom image and make it available to the masses when you are free from any liability or culpability.

in the end, hopefully everything will work out, but there is a huge spotlight on this He-Man proto right now and most assuredly their are interested parties paying close attention even though it is a 36 year old game for a 38 year old console.

I didn't suggest what anyone should do; they made it clear what their intentions were and how much they were willing to spend to do it. Intellivision Productions, as I said before, was a company that owned videogame intellectual properties and their business was licensing them out; so they couldn't very well ignore the IP rights of others. Mattel is a six billion dollar company with lots of products, their concern is the quality/reputation of their brands. Peyo is a family who's trying to squeeze every dollar out of their one IP.

January 26

11 hours ago, NIAD said:

Well, it's not really that easy of an issue as can be seen by the BSRs donating one proto PCB to the NVM, a member of the BSR auctioning off his proto PCB and a third proto PCB still being in limbo. If it was as easy a matter as your post suggests, then the BSRs would have moved forward with a release years ago like they have done with other protos throughout the years.

So if CollectorVision had won the auction, they would be facing the same exact issues that the BSRs have faced for years concerning trying to make a physical release of He-Man akin to what CollectorVision faced when they attempted to release Smurf for the Intellivision, Youki experienced with his Smurf game and others have experienced throughout the years with games related to certain properties. It's easy for us to sit on the sidelines and say just do this or just do that, but ultimately we wouldn't be the one's sticking our necks out and as well as our families if legal action were to be taken.

In a perfect world and with no legal ramifications in site, it still would be a considerable amount of time before that rom image was made available to be played on your AtariMax cart or Phoenix systems and in the meantime there would be all THOSE posts asking when will it be made available.

Collectorvision and Intellivision Productions (now Blue Sky Rangers Inc) were in very different situations. Peyo and Mattel are very different as well.

January 26

There's an intellivision rom collection on arvhive.org with over a thousand files in it.

January 26

Twenty-seven revisions of hotel bunny? It most definitely has the Rocketeer and Mars Minis previews.

January 26

2 hours ago, Silverbot said:

Totally agree with you, there are some really great looking games, but I was just wondering what the potential of the Amico is. Just a comparison maybe to a Xbox 360 or Wii U for example 👍😀

Speculation but maybe something like this.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Qualcomm-Adreno-506.175993.0.html

January 25

The area above and below the 192 lines are not blank; they're part of the coloured border. The program can colour the border any of the sixteen intellivision colours. Does the intellivision not draw 240 lines including the border.

January 24

4 hours ago, Matt-H06 said:

Is there a way to RSS this forum? Thanks.

Try asking here.

https://atariage.com/forums/forum/10-site-and-forum-feedback/

January 24

3 hours ago, Swami said:

From National Videogame Museum

...

"Today we take a look at Masters of the Universe: The Power of He-Man for Colecovision. Completed at the height of the crash of ’83, Masters of the Universe was a fairly popular hit for the Atari 2600 & Intellivision consoles. However, the Colecovision version went unreleased despite the fact that it boasted expanded gameplay and superior graphics as well as a crossover audience with cartoon and action figure fans.

...

On 1/2/2021 at 1:21 AM, BSRSteve said:

...

I had learned Z-80 while programming Utopia for Aquarius, so was a natural choice for Colecovision development when it was started in mid-late 1983. It boggles my mind a little how close I came to releasing four titles on three platforms at a job I held for only 27 months. I don't remember much about the specifics of developing the game, except that it was a fairly direct port of the Intellivison version, but taking advantage of any improvements that were possible.

I expect it's a faithful conversion of the intellivision game play

January 24

Intellivision:

Space Battle, Auto Racing, AD&D, Sub Hunt, Dreadnaught Factor

Atari 2600:

Boxing, Warlords, Kaboom, Phoenix, Battlezone

Colecovision:

Alcazar, Fortune Builder, Boulderdash, Jumpman Jr, Choplifter

**Note that I left out two player only games because I can't play them anytime I want.

11 hours ago, Sinjinhawke said:

I did not know Thexder was on Colecovision. Very cool.

I still have a functioning Mac Plus with a floppy emulator so I can play Thexder.

Thexder on Colecovision is an MSX port and requires the OpcodeSGM sound chip.

January 24

It shouldn't be hard to make an Intellivision cartridge playing peripheral. All you need is a usb cartridge dumper, which we have; a cross platform emulator, which we have. Just need some software to connect the two.

January 24

23 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

Me & Paul McCartney prefer Beyond Burgertime or Impossible Burgertime.

btw... did you know that Intellivision was working on a new game called Pizza Time back in 1984!

It never came out, but definitely something we gotta bring back!!!!

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/pizza-time/

Developed at Mattel Electronics France / Nice Ideas. Here's some screenshots and a desciption.

http://www.gamotek.fr/nice-ideas-storyboards-3/

1 hour ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

Ha! That would be something! I have no idea. @RxScram is probably a better person to ask!

If Intellivision Entertainment shares the controller API, anyone should be able to write a driver for it.

January 23

You can definitely have three orange guards come out together.

January 23

50 minutes ago, Intellivision Master said:

In the Amico podcast from 1/17, Rich mentions he got a golden ticket for pre-ordering the FE. I pre-ordered the FE as well but never got a golden ticket. Was I supposed to get one? I have the receipt for the pre-order. The only 2 times I got a golden ticket was when I bought a shirt & mug from the IE shop in late 2019. After that Tommy said no more golden tickets were being sent out.

The founders edition will come with a "$50 RFID golden ticket gift card".

January 23

The game needs the internet for installation. If it's deleted for whatever reason, it will have to be reinstalled from the internet or from a backup; however they decide to implement it.

The question of authentication needs clearing up, because if you take some game licenses to a friend's amico; they are supposed to be disabled on one amico when played on another.

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