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1 hour ago, stupus said:
These were pirate msx carts from Thailand. They just completely lifted the aqauarius logo randomly
That explains it. Don’t know much about MSX. Thanks!
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255108416986?hash=item3b65a585da:g:sOgAAOSwjP5hJlzL
If this turns out to be something real and I miss out because of this post, that’s that. But what the hell is it? Doesn’t look like any Aquarius cart I’ve ever seen, nor cassette.
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Aquarius lot with sealed BurgerTime. A bit pricy at $200, but they allow offers, if anyone wants to give it a go.
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10 minutes ago, Atari_Bill said:
Nothing that would appeal to you. The only think I have to sell is a D&D box and a few overlays.
Ah, alright. I’ve got a couple of D&Ds already. Thanks anyway.
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Any Aquarius stuff in there?
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Aquarius authentic 32K Memory cart in this lot if anyone has a method of ordering from the site.
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Well… if you can somehow justify the incredibly high asking price… or convince the seller to sell separately, there’s a loose Aquarius Melody Chase in here.
https://www.ebay.it/itm/324675639382?hash=item4b982d1856:g:Q3sAAOSwcNhgxjs8
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4 hours ago, Zendocon said:
I got onto Discord about a year ago, and I had searched for "Intellivision" but didn't find this server until now. I know there's a server out there for "Aquarius Computer", where there was a little discussion about the Intellivision ECS at one point.
Yep, I made that one. I’d love to advertise it here but I’m not going to try to take the focus away from the Intellivision discord server. Perhaps the Intellivision server could have a channel for the Aquarius?
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22 hours ago, Intelligentleman said:
Welcome home my sweet Red Stripe INTY II...
Intv is not my area of expertise... is the red stripe variant hard to come by? I’ve got a boxed one I got for cheap years ago but it doesn’t work.
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3 hours ago, mvdsteenoven said:
TLC is The Lisp Company, the Logo variant used on Aquarius. This book is about learning Logo, but much more technical.
Regs,
Martin
Thanks for letting me know about this book. Will add it in the next version. Some of these books are just incredibly difficult to find! Never seen this one for sale in particular.
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7 minutes ago, sixersfan105 said:
I agree that there's a good chance this tape is the last remaining House of Terrors, and there likely were only a few to begin with. Thank goodness the community was able to digitize it for preservation and enjoyment for all!
Oh wow, that would be amazing if you could dump Diamond Mine! Definitely keep us posted on your progress. I know we could also use a better dump of Disco Fever, something I've been meaning to try to do.
I'll make a thread here with the dump once it's made. I'd love to see a better dump of Disco Fever. That tape has managed to evade my collecting for the past few years unfortunately. I believe it's one of 4(?) Add-On releases I'm missing at this point.
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On 4/7/2021 at 1:31 AM, sixersfan105 said:
Here's a new one for you, @EdgeOfPortal. There was much chatter over the past 24 hours on the Aquarius Facebook group about a previously unknown Aquarius cassette game: House of Terrors. It's quite advanced and appears to have been a homebrew of sorts from 1986 and requires 16K and a hand controller. The creator, Tjerk André, joined the Facebook group today after someone contacted him privately to let him know that his game was recently discovered. Apparently he wrote several games for the Aquarius. Here's the link to the most recent post about it (I believe it's a public group): https://www.facebook.com/groups/aquariuscomputer/permalink/2775282722802067/
Pretty amazing stuff!
Thanks! It looks very interesting, I’ll have to give it a download. I need to figure out what to do with this tape, I suppose I can put it in there as a Homebrew, but my bet is this is the only copy of the tape remaining.
Also, I took a look at some info posted in the comments. I gathered some info about dumping Aquarius tapes, so with that I should be able to finally dump the Diamond Mine cassette! I’ll try to do that this weekend.
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10 hours ago, Andrew Davie said:
It's possible I had some documents that mentioned these, and I included them in the list of what was made.
In any case, I really did send *everything* to the buyer. Why not track him down?
I'm nearing full completion of the Aquarius collection (at least in terms of cartridges and hardware), so I would absolutely want to track him down, if anything to gather more information about the items. Have you got any info to get us started by chance?
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2 hours ago, sixersfan105 said:
Do we have any proof that they actually exist, though? Because we've seen ads before (and catalog inclusions for actual ordering) for Aquarius games that never saw an actual release, including Lock 'n' Chase, Sea Battle and Reversi (Montgomery Ward catalog (US) with catalog number, pricing, and ordering details) as well as Sea Battle and Lock 'n' Chase in the Dutch user club in 1986.
No, we don't actually. Well, now that I think about it, perhaps a column that states whether or not a particular cassette has been seen before could be a good addition? What do you think? A large majority of the cassettes on the list haven't been seen, but were still included in case.
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12 hours ago, Aquaman said:
At the website from Martin he has scanned in a copy of the Dutch user magazine. It mentions 2 unknown tape games which could be ordered: The Bridge and UFO. A real pity there is not more info on these https://www.vdsteenoven.com/aquarius/pfvbalen8603.php.
Thanks for letting me know, I'll add them when I get a chance. It's a shame these tapes have been practically lost to time.
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2 minutes ago, Intelligentleman said:
Yep, nice setup. Would be a good way to get started with the computer with one single purchase. I'd like an extended Basic cart.
Yeah, pretty nice setup. Some rare documentation too. I don’t have that documentation, but I can’t justify taking an extended basic from someone just for it. If you really want an Extended Basic, whole lots like this are pretty much the only way you can get it. The last three extended basic carts including this one were all in lots with hardware and other software. One in January 2020 iirc which came with the computer and a bunch of software. Believe stupus grabbed that one if I recall. One in December that I grabbed, came with a Kronos computer and Finform and fileform, and finally this cart. I would go for it if you have the spare cash, they aren’t exactly common. If this one had a box... I’d be throwing more cash at it than I care to admit.
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Don’t have an account myself and I already have the extended basic, so here's a good lot: https://www.marktplaats.nl/a/computers-en-software/vintage-computers/m1676681318-aquarius-computer.html?previousPage=lr
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11 hours ago, jaybird3rd said:
I'm not familiar with RetroAchievements, but if it can already monitor in-memory score changes, and if it supports MAME, it sounds as if it wouldn't be difficult to implement for the Aquarius as well. Support for Aquarius emulation in MAME has improved considerably in recent releases, and it should be simple to identify the score locations in memory for different Aquarius games.
Being able to save and re-load high scores is definitely a cool idea, but it would require patching the original games to support that feature. Coincidentally, my design for the SuperCart II (the successor to the cartridge board used in the Aquaricart) will include an EEPROM for saving small amounts of permanent game data in the cartridge, including high score tables. I had intended to support it in some new Aquarius games that I have planned, but theoretically, it should be possible to patch some of the old games to be able to reload their high scores from the EEPROM. Not all Aquarius games keep track of the player's high score (as a separate value from the current score), but for those that do, it might be a fun project to try.
RetroAchievements uses the LibRetro API (https://www.libretro.com/). Supported multi-emulators are RetroArch, and RA's own RALibRetro. The libretro project creates 'cores' based off of pre-existing emulators. Aquarius support isn't available because no one has made an Aquarius core for libretro. If someone were to create an Aquarius core, and if it had it's memory exposed, then RetroAchievements would be fully capable of supporting the system. I would do it myself, but I'm lacking in knowledge to do such a thing.
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4 hours ago, Morpheus said:
Hi Edge,
In what it consists exactly to make an achievement on AD&D Cloudy Mountain ? Thanks!
The achievements for Cloudy Mountain have already been created by another user. If you're interested in trying to earn the achievements yourself, you can make an account on the site.
Once you've made an account, go to:
https://retroachievements.org/download.phpDownload one of the emulators there, either RetroArch, or RALibRetro. They'll allow you to sign into RetroAchievements (if on RetroArch then through the options menu, if on RALibRetro it asks to log you in on boot up), then you can install a core. A core is essentially the emulator itself. RA supports multiple systems, so each core represents a specific system. Download an Intellivision core through RetroArch or RALibRetro, then you can use any Intellivision rom to play it. RA does not provide roms, so you'll have to grab one yourself.
If you want to know how to make achievements for other Intellivision games, follow the steps above, except download specifically RALibRetro. It has special tools built-in to make achievements with. It involves searching for memory addresses, and then using them to code achievements. It sounds a bit complex but it isn't that bad once you learn the tools. You can learn more about them using RA's developer wiki: https://docs.retroachievements.org/Developer-docs/
I'd highly recommend joining RA's discord server: https://discord.gg/dq2E4hE The community is very active and there's plenty of people to help with achievement coding, or RetroAchievements in general.
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2 minutes ago, Intelligentleman said:
The more I think about this... It wouldn't even need to be a real-time achievement system. If the Aquaricart could somehow log the player's high score. Or level progression. Or some other indicator of progress for each title...
Next time the player turns on Aquaricart, it automatically pings a server and updates the player progress from the previous session. Achievement's don't display in real time, but players can view their rank from the menu. Current as of last ping.
I dev on RetroAchievements, and the way it works there is that RA's supported emulators monitor the game's memory, and based on user-made code, an achievement will trigger when 1 or more specified addresses is equal to, less than, or above a specified value. For example, if an achievement says, 'Reach 10,000 Score' then the emulator will monitor the address that represents score, and if it reaches 10,000 or higher, then the achievement triggers. I would say the best way to accomplish this, if possible, is have it monitor the memory of the Aquarius.
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15 minutes ago, Intelligentleman said:
That's sweet. But what would be RAD for Aquarius is to make it compatible with the modem cartridge. Then, a new version of the Aquaricart that can update and store achievements so that when you launch ANY of the carts from the menu it can display notifications.
And it'd be sweet if it could output the data to a FinFile compatible file. Or any number of file types... LOGO, Basic...
That's a really cool idea. I'm not entirely sure about the technical aspects of that, but perhaps someone more knowledgeable here could provide some info? @jaybird3rd perhaps?
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RetroAchievements is a community run site that adds achievements to retro games through emulators, for those of you who haven't heard of it. I've just noticed they added support for the Intellivision. Figured it was worth bringing up here. So far, people have made achievements for 4 intellivision games, those being AD&D Cloudy Mountain, Treasure of Tarmin, Ice Trek, and Astrosmash. It's entirely community run, so any of you could even make your own achievements for Intellivision games using their tools.
https://retroachievements.org/ (site homepage)
https://retroachievements.org/gameList.php?c=45 (Specifically Intellivision)
Unfortunately for the Aquarius brotherhood there's no Aquarius support yet though.-
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17 hours ago, sixersfan105 said:
Help me out, fellow Aquarians...did I stumble upon some previously unknown cassettes? Pics below. At first blush, these Games Pack 2 and Games Pack 3 cassettes appear like nothing special, but check out the spines - these are by Add On Electronics as opposed to CCI, with product #s KEB013 and KEB014, respectively. That would help explain why @EdgeOfPortal's collecting list has KEB013 and KEB014 missing in the sequential order of Add On releases.
Now we know that Add On Electronics was formed as a joint venture of sorts between Radofin and CCI, so the fact that there is some shared artwork isn't that unusual (same artwork here as the CCI versions of the same titles), but the games on the Add On versions of Games Pack 2 and Games Pack 3 are entirely different from the CCI compilations. Two of the games from Games Pack 3, Mad Mould and Cute Cubes, are on the Radofin Demo Cassette that was often bundled with the Radofin Aquarius computer, but I've never heard of the other two (Invisible Outline and Alien Attack) and then two of the games from Games Pack 2 were also on that Radofin demo cassette, Alien Quest and Torment, but I've never heard of the other two, Crazy Plane and Rick 'O' Shea.
Do you guys have any insight on this?
Cheers.
Yeah, many of the cassettes have their own CCI and Add-on variants. I haven't been able to get my hands on all of them personally. Strangely enough, I've just checked and each of my own Games Pack tapes are the Add-On variants, so I'm not entirely sure why the add-on variants haven't been included. They'll be included in the next sheet, though I don't have Games Pack 4 to check if it has an add-on variant as well. Interestingly enough, my Postman Pot tape is branded on the art by Add-On, yet the tape itself is CCI. Now, on any other system I would say, oh well the seller must've combined a loose tape and a loose case, but Aquarius Cassettes aren't exactly common. I'd be interested to know if anyone else has a Postman Pot like this?
16 hours ago, Intymike said:You can see it in the photo a few postings above. But it's not in the collectors list.
Mower Man by CCI.
I do believe many of the tapes have these variants, unfortunately the tapes don't come up very often. I'd be interested in compiling a list of the CCI variants, as from what I've seen the Add-on variants are more common. None of my tapes are CCI branded except for the Postman Pot oddity, in which the tape is CCI and the art is Add-on. If any other collectors here could let me know which, if any, of their tapes are CCI, I would like to add them to the list.
9 hours ago, Intymike said:also not in the collecting list:
the Radofin Data Recorder international manual 220v/50hz
and the Radofin Mini Expander international manual
I always chose to exclude these as I count them as part of the hardware; they're included with them. A Radofin data recorder will include the Radofin international manual. Would people rather me add them separately? On a separate note, this comment got me to remember that the list is actually missing standard Radofin versions of the Data Recorder and Mini-Expander. It includes the Kronos Europea and Arabic versions, as well as the Mattel versions, but not the standard, multi-language versions. I'll have to add them.
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mattel-Aquarius-4110-Vintage-Home-Computer-not-working/114712057305?hash=item1ab55f15d9:g:0~AAAOSwVJBgP6LA
So what's up with this Aquarius? Serial number is seemingly missing, it's not working, there's a hole cut out of the case and a chip is visible from the front. Certainly something is noteworthy about it because it's got 4 bids, but I'm at a bit of a loss here. Wouldn't really matter if I did know because they don't ship to the US, but has anyone got an idea about it?
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Massive pickup!
but… holy hell this wasn’t cheap. New record for how much I’ve spent on an Aquarius lot.
In any case:
4-Color Printer (my second one)
Zero-In (my second one and the variant I was missing)
CHESS! - One cart left. CIB chess obtained.
STORE DEMONSTRATION CART!
CIB Extended Basic to replace my loose one.
Previously unseen paperwork
Radofin variant of Burgertime and Biorythms