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If I understand this, you're talking about making two pieces: the plastic electric circuit part as well as the golden bubble membrane on top. I didn't think the golden button membrane was a priority and people would be mostly looking for the plastic electric circuit part. But I could be wrong

Not sure I understand what you are saying about the side buttons. The plastic circuits at the side buttons don't look much different than at the keypad buttons to me. Is it that its smaller than the keypad buttons. Each side button has to connect three wires/pins together to function. http://www.the-liberator.net/site-files/retro-games/hardware/Intellivision-III/intellivision-iii.htm The INTV III controller in these pictures look like the original controllers (edit: other than the flat button membrane). That is a european model however. And I wouldn't be surprised if some had Intellivision II controller parts, or even a completely new design. The side buttons are hard to press. And each side button has to connect three wires/pins and sometimes doesn't; resulting in erratic behaviour. Not sure how a spring helps but If you can improve these problems with the side buttons; it would be good.

UK and/or Australia with no-pack-in, I'm guessing. Soccer and Lock'N'Chase And then a mystery pack-in. South Africa with Armour Battle. France and Italy with a free Cartridge; maybe the customer gets to choose. Not sure where but one with Space Armada. Digiplay in Brasil with Triple Action and Intellivision II with Pitfall

The Canadian boxes. The original boxes with LV Poker & Blackjack and Intellivision II with Lock'N'Chase. There's probably Intellivision IIs with no pack-ins. And some US boxes were likely sold in Canada. edit: And I'm pretty sure I've seen boxes with the Astrosmash offer sticker back in 1981 or 1982. Was there any other Canadian 2609 model packaging?

Well I tried finding a photo of a box with Astrosmash as a pack-in but couldn't. I found LV Poker & BlackJack as pack-ins for original Mattel Intellivision and the Sylvania/Sears/Tandyvisions in the US and Canada. The Intellivision II had either no pack-in or Burgertime and in Canada Lock'n'chase. In European boxes, I've seen Armor Battle, Triple Action, Soccer, Space Armada, and one box that had both Soccer and Lock'n'chase inside. And I've seen Digiplay in Brasil boxes with Triple Action or Pitfall. There's lots of pictures of boxes in Steve Jones' post http://atariage.com/forums/topic/191710-2012-intellivision-collection-pic-thread/?p=2526784. Here are some more I stole from google searches. The original US box. My understanding is that Mattel decided to not include NFL Football at the last minute for legal reasons. I haven't seen one without the sticker. There's a few variations of this box; one with LV Poker & Blackjack on the TV and then without the keyboard component. An updated US box with and without the free Astrosmash by mail offer. Both have LV Poker & Blackjack as pack-ins Intellivision II with I believe no-packin and a couple with Burgertime. Not sure which ones are earlier/later The photos are poor quality but I think it says "free Burgertime cartridge included"

Are you using the jzintv that comes with RetroPie 3.6 or the one in the intellivision.us update package? I don't know how to tell which is newer other than the date stamp. The source code on the jzIntv web site seems much older.

This is a shot in the dark but try the minimum possible insertion of the cartridge. Pull the cartridge as much as possible before it slips out. I have two cartridges that only work this way and it works reliably. At regular insertion, they will sometimes go passed the title screen and start playing before stopping. However most of the time, I get nothing, not even a title screen. And I tried cleaning the contacts with isopropyl alcohol.

The Pi2 can supply up to 1.2A to USB peripherals alone. It's hard to say how much power its drawing while running Intellivision games. Often newer CPUs use less power than older CPUs when doing the same thing. Newer CPUs can do more so the stress test will be higher and maybe draw more power. A better power supply is probably a good idea anyway; you might decide to stream videos with it or emulate more powerful computers.

I was using Altirra v2.7; I thought it was the latest; downloaded from the virtualdub web site. That new version fixed the problem. The mouse/5200-trak-ball works very well now. Thanks very much. edit: btw I've used VirtualDub before; it's awesome.

The Pi3 has built in wifi. Once you add wifi to a Pi2 is the Pi3 using that much more power when doing the same tasks?

Not exactly free to do whatever; Ebay does have a policy. "We don't allow replicas, counterfeit items, or unauthorized copies to be listed on eBay"

My experience is that the Altirra 5200 trackball/mouse driver works fine if I move the mouse quickly, I don't notice any position decay. If I move the mouse slowly then the Altirra trackball does not move at all. I tried Altirra 800 CX-80 trackball with mouse and it works well (although there is no adjustment options). But I can't use the Altirra CX-80 trackball/mouse with 5200 games. CX-80 Trackball V1 (port 1) Axis 1 -> Mouse Move Horiz (default) Axis 2 -> Mouse Move Vert (default) On a side note, for those that have an actual 5200 Trak Ball and 5200-dapter USB adapter, the 5200-dapter web site suggests setting up Altirra to use the 5200 Trak Ball as a joystick.. This is different but should work.

Here's a couple sites that can give an idea of the value of the games. http://intellivisionrevolution.com/intellivision-rarity-price-guide http://www.rarityguide.com/intellivision_view.php

Well a boxed ECS Synthesizer recently sold for US$130 (the ad says its worth $500). It also claims that Scooby Doo has sold for $500. The collection could be 3x or 4x overvalued. According to the ad it might end up on ebay. It now says "Quite possibly Toronto's largest collection of intellivision video games and consoles".

Some programmers might be reluctant to use someone else's code without the rights holder's permission. But that shouldn't stop somebody from making a new game with the same gameplay as Air Strike and a different name.

If you have an Intellivision 1, you can add a 9-pin port but it would only be compatible with Intellivision controllers. With some modification I think you can make an Atari or Colecovision controller compatible as a 4-way controller. Anything more would need some electronics.

In my case, a bad controller was only a bad cable. I tested continuity for each wire. I repaired it by replacing the cable using an inexpensive genesis extension cable. And yes, in Canada shipping from Intellivision Productions is US$25. Not sure where you are. Someone should do a bulk buy of controllers and resell them on Ebay within Canada; maybe IP would provide a small discount.

The other thing I liked hearing about was Ray Kaestner's Doubles Tennis. He says he took the original Tennis and added two more players and a computer player but doesn't know what happened to it. IntellivisionLives.com says the project was sent to Mattel France for completion. Unfortunately that version is completely different. I wonder what happened or did Ray Kaestner actually rewrite the game and was released as "Championship Tennis" and doesn't know about its release.

The ECS Music Synthesizer seems a bit rare for ebay. ( http://www.ebay.ca/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=intellivision%20synthesizer&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684) You can try posting in the general Intellivision forum and see if one of the guys wants to get rid of one of theirs. Melody Blaster is a little pricey. Too bad there isn't a flash cart availailable right now. You could save some money with some of the more expensive cartridges. edit: world series baseball uses pretty much everything, you even need the ECS keyboard to hit the space bar constantly throughout the game

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I've got it set up as follows: 5200 Trackball (port 1) Axis 1 -> Mouse Move Horiz (absolute) Axis 2 -> Mouse Move Vert (absolute) Absolute seems to work best of all the options although there is no adjustment options. And only faster movements respond, slower movements don't, as if there is a deadzone. I tested with Missile Command and Centipede. I'm using Windows-7-64b. I haven't had any luck with mouse and other 5200 emulators either. I contacted the Altirra programmer by email but got no response. Anyone ever get a response from the Altirra programmer?

This was a good episode. I had always thought APh was involved with the early Mattel handhelds so the Rockwell stuff was interesting. Here's some more stuff on that. Rockwell: http://www.digitpress.com/library/interviews/interview_mark_lesser.html APh: http://www.2600connection.com/interviews/david_rolfe/interview_david_rolfe.html Edit: fixed links

Did you use the Windows 7 "Game controller settings" to verify the buttons don't work?

You probably saw this but in case you didn't http://atariage.com/forums/topic/251144-replacement-controllers Do the disc and side buttons work? On what type of computer have you tested? Any changes (ie firmware updates or dipswitches or software)

Yes thanks, this is what I remember, although the packaging in Canada was different. I remember we got our Intellivision either early-mid 1981 or early-mid 1982 and then a few months later there was a price drop and a free Astrosmash offer with LV Poker & BJ still a pack-in. I remember being more upset about the price drop than missing the free Astrosmash. Now I just need to see a photo of a Master Component box that says Astrosmash cartridge inside.