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  1. Posted

    Yes i have, in fact if i remember while verifying all the roms i have accumulated over the past 20 years,

    that i have two version of Biplane which the first version is listed in the list (26.1k version) and the second

    one has 26.3k, which i renamed "Biplane-2.rom" as this version is less playable than the first version as

    we only see crashes and heard a lot of explosions.

     

    But how i obtain them is a mystery to me as even myself discovered that i had a lot of roms that i even

    didn't know i had until recently when doing the list. Think i've went thru over 5,000 Colecovisions roms

    i have (multiple copies, many different versions, etc).

     

    I even have copies of Kill Barney On Mars and Killer Instinct 2 which Amy (Daniel) thought were lost in oblivion!

    Just to say that i consider myself lucky to still have all these copies intact after multiple (more than 10) hard

    disk failures and retrieve them from dead hard disks and old CDR's back-up (even some few were unreadable

    after all these years).

     

    And thanks, it was a heck of a job to verify & catalog each roms. I did the same a few months ago for the

    Vectrex (see FB Vectrex Fans United group).

     

    And continue the great work you're doing and i very like Mr.Turtles as i wanted that game when i was a kid,

    now it's a dream come true! :)

     

    - Sly -

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  2. Posted

    Hi folks!

     

    After updating my old Colecovision list for the past five months in my spare times, i have finally completed it!

     

    Of course since we are all humans, there will be a few errors so hoping that if you find one or more), to post it here.

     

    And please, don't ask for any ROMS in the list, as there is many commercials games still available and i respect all

    their hard work to bring us so many new homebrews in the last 2 decades (and still going!).

     

    But if you wanna see a video of a specific ROM, then i'll gladly do it.Just for fun, i have uploaded a few Colecovision

    videos of demos ans games never released/available (or almost to my knowledge). Go take a peek here:

     

    https://www.youtube.com/c/SlyDC/playlists

     

    And i also invite you to take a peek at the Colecovision list, thanks! ;)

     

    - Sly -

    Colecovision Database List-May-25-2021.xlsx

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  4. Posted

    Serguei2 did tried to compile his game with sounds several times but his computer still

    is "glitchy" so he can't recompile it, and his last attempt was Febuary 22, 2021 -

    see here:

     

     

    Can't wait to play it with sounds! :)

     

    P.S.: The link to the manual is dead :(

     

     

  10. Posted

    Hi! And first....congratulation to have beaten Pac-Man and made a video to show all the ending and second,

    thanks for the scan of the Nelsonic Frogger manual, i didn't had this one. :)

     

    Here's the link to the Imado Clown WWG (same as Nelsonic Q*Bert):

    https://ia801008.us.archive.org/0/items/wwg_20190701/ImadoClown(orNelsonicQ-bert).PDF

     

    And if you need some other WWG's (Wrist Watch Game), go take a look here:

    https://archive.org/details/wwg_20190701

     

    The only WWG i have ever saw the ending was the OMNI Space Defender 39-40 years ago when

    i have reach the maximum score of 1999 (same as Pac-Man). Once reached 1999, the game screen

    flashes and the "victory" music is "La Cacuratcha" (the same melody for the alarm). ;)

     

     

     

     

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  12. Posted

    I'm pretty sure he got the idea from the ITT Graetz-Ingelen Ideal Computer Tele Match Cassette 2 circuit diagram

    which shows how the AY-3-8600 (or 8610) is hooked-up with a CD4011 and then amplified by transistors and

    outputs to the RGB (with a scart connector).

     

    Also, the Magnavox Odyssey 4305 (the AY-3-8500-1 built-in the TV) is connected in this similar way accept that the ball

    is connected to the Red & Green giving the ball a yellow color. Same process was done in the early Pong-clones arcades

    like Nutting Associates Wimbledon.

     

    Heck...you could colorize an Magnavox Odyssey or any Pong clone console by the same procedure. ;)

     

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  16. Posted

    1 hour ago, Mikebloke said:

    Hopefully we can do some events in our respective countries in 2022! I would like to help out doing something in the UK if other people are interested. Might not have been huge here, but naturally all of us have been influenced in some way from the birth of the home video console. 

    On that, i completely agree. We have the entire year (2021) to prepare and come up with all kind of events for the 50th anniversary of the Odyssey.

    After all, this is the "Holy Grail" (the Big Bang) of all video game consoles. :)

     

  18. Posted

    Hi folks,

     

    After some great homebrews for the Magnavox Odyssey that was released this year during the pandemic, i had an idea to make a poster

    for the Magnavox Odyssey since this console never had an official poster (just ads, flyers, etc), so i've made one which has all 28 "legacy"

    released games.

     

    XMASGIFT.PNG

     

    You can download a copy here: http://odysim.blogspot.com/2020/12/merry-christmas-to-everyone.html

    as the picture above is very small compared to the real file (39 Megs - 14400 x 9600).

     

    Hope some of you will like it! ;)

     

    P.S.: I call dibs on making the 50th anniversary poster for the Magnavox Odyssey (1972-2022) as i already started making one.

     

     

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  20. Posted

    Hi folks!


    I have posted on one of my blogs about the バンダイてれびっこ (Bandai Terebikko) different two models and other information.

    You can view the post here: https://discreteconsoles.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-bandai-terebikko-video.html


    But mostly, after years of research i have made a list of all the VHS-tapes "games" that was released for the Terebikko.

    On Wikipedia, there is only 9 title listed and on Wikipedia Japan, it has 19 titles listed but in reality, there is 33 titles (+ one

    Sample Video tape) that was released for the Terebikko.

     

    The list is uploaded on Archive.org here: https://archive.org/download/bandai-terebikko/Bandai Terebikko List (dec-2020)(by Sly DC).xlsx

    and is also in attachment with this post (just in case).

     

    And you can also view/download some other files here: https://archive.org/details/bandai-terebikko

     

    The next post will be about the specifications of the Terebikko so hoping this will help out the emulation community and to preserve

    digitally the console and games, and also maybe see a homebrew for it ?!

     

    Have fun, folks!

    Bandai Terebikko List (dec-2020)(by Sly DC).xlsx

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  21. Posted

    Hi Ikrananka,

     

    No problem for comparing lists but it will take a while before i finished it. I think Amy (Daniel) won't mind if i ask her if i can distribute her old

    demos and games roms. As for Steve Bégin Wizard's Siege, i also have to ask him as i think he made a deal with CollectorVision.

     

    In the meantime since i'm cleaning up the roms, i finally found the web site of Ken Scott (aka Grimlick) when i've found his Black8pk.zip file.

    If anyone wants to download his hacks, here's the URL: http://grimlick.tripod.com/cvhack.htm

     

    There's 3 Colecovision hacks: CV Beast Wars (hack of Gorf - BWCVa.rom), Predacon Target Practice (hack of Carnival - BWCVb.rom) and

    the one i forgot: Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer (hack of Bump 'n Jump - racercv.rom).

     

     

     

     

     

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  22. Posted

    Thanks guys!

     

    But the only recent list i've found was last updated in 2015. But that's ok since i've found my Colecovision list i started last year,

    i thought i've lost it so now i just need to update it.

     

    There are a few games which i have found no mention of like Wizard's Siege by Steve Bégin, Kill Barney on Mars (not Tokyo)

    and the AdventureVision emulator by Daniel Bienvenu and a few demos made by Daniel like the CCJVQ demo and the Club 8bit demo,

    x2 hacks with Transformers pixels, etc... and i have the roms but i won't release them without the author's probation (except the two

    Transformers hack, they were available on his web site (Ken Scott) more than 10 years ago...can't find his web site now).

     

    Anyhow, before i update the list, i have to "clean-up" my Colecovision roms folder which will take a while.

     

    In the meantime, here's a rom i can release: It is a hack of Centipede called "Vectopede" which i made back in 2006. Hope some

    will like it, have fun!

     

     

    VECTPEDE.PNG

    Vectopede (2006) (Sly DC).rom

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  23. Posted

    Hi folks,

     

    I was wondering how many games exactly were converted/ported from the Sega SG-1000, MSX, Sord M5, etc...to the Colecovision ?

     

    I was beginning to do a list of all Colecovision roms (games, prototypes, demos, etc) but i wanted to know exactly how many games

    were ported/converted to regular game cartridge or for the Super Game Module.

     

    Thanks in advanced to any inquiries! :)

     

  24. Posted

    On 11/20/2020 at 2:03 PM, Mikebloke said:

    In terms of Russian models being in 92/93, it's quite possible as we would have had fall of the soviet Union. One of the biggest elements of that in relation to video games was that of copyright and licencing, which in itself led to companies selling products competitively for profit, its not unbelievable that old tech would have been picked up to make a quick profit for something people may not have seen yet in their neck of the woods. 

     

    Hi Mikebloke! What's new with you since the Odyssey Multicarts ? :)

     

    I agree with what you wrote but also, Russia made their own "copy" of the AY-3-8500-1 (the К145ИК17) when the Pong era was almost non-existant

    in the rest of the world and General Instrument was dropping all of their TV Games series with all the competition (Bally, Fairchild, RCA, Atari, etc...) that was

    going by the end of the 70's - beginning of the 80's. Their first "Pong" console where based on the Magnavox Odyssey and also DIY TV Games by 1979-1980

    in magazines. The first released Pong console was the Palestra-02 in 1978 and it was built with discrete components (TTL's) which are exactly the games found

    in the AY-3-8500-1 and more - see my post on my blog here: https://discreteconsoles.blogspot.com/2015/10/emulation-of-ay-3-8500-1-and-clones-soon.html

     

    And after, a few more Russian Pong consoles came out between 1978 and 1993 (the Typhup has a AY-3-8500-7 and all the rest has a K145HK17). But most people

    in Russia before the fall was majorly poor so not many of Pong consoles came out and not so many were sold also.

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  25. Posted · Edited by slydc

    On 11/20/2020 at 3:07 AM, Schnurrikowski said:

    I own that book already (it's not that new). Do you have some page numbers at hand that confirm your claims?

     

    What is the title of the other book you mentioned but could not get?

    What is the fun of revealing all the details, it is more fun to try to find the answer(s). I have read the book 4-5 years ago and

    i surely don't remember all the pages by memory (especially at my age....LOL!!!!).

     

    As for the book in Hong Kong, i will have to dig rrreeeaaalll dddeeeeeeppppp in my archives, somewhere between 10 to 15 years.

    That....may take a while to find the details but one thing i remember is i found out about this book by searching Google Books.

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