Intelligentleman

This is so cool. What a good time to be getting into the Aquarius.

That is incredible. How did your family come to acquire the Aquarius and the necessary gear to actually get "online?" Can you describe the process of logging on and what it was like? How long did it take? What was the interface? And then once you did log on, what was the first thing you'd see? Any detail you can remember would be awesome!

7446. Been preoccupied with collecting other intellivision ephemera.

Literally coming in the mail now

Eh in. 1980

Space Hawk - a "generic" running person game. Night Stalker. The list goes on. It's a generic "character" but maybe it wouldn't be so generic if it had a decent backstory? What if any running man game had an accompanying "pre-quel" or some other such literary device? Text adventures. Augmented by graphical and audio flourishes from the hardware... Edit - I'd plan to use the INTV cartridge from which to pull graphical assets....

I'm interested in hearing from or speaking with anyone who remembers using the Mattel Aquarius to go "online." Either back in the day (1982-6ish), or any other time after that.

I'm still looking for a good clean Sears unit.

Wow, I missed that. Now it’s going to bug me that my INTV II doesn’t match the ECS and System Changer as well as its be-striped brethren. 😊

Anyone know why some INTV II consoles have the red stripe and some don’t?

Thank you. Yeah... and i had to teach as high up as I could just to get those crappy shots...

Might it be possible in theory to assign BASIC programming snippets to the keys on an Intellivision music synthesizer? So if I play a certain "note” on the keyboard, the program knows to call up a specified BASIC routine. This routine then runs and causes the audio/visual experience to change. Alternatively, could I record the audio “sound” of rudimentary BASIC programs or definitions and piece together a BASIC program in a wav editor like audacity? Then, play it back to a the intellivision?

Thank you. Does it come with anything else besides the power supply?

Saw at today at the local store. $180. But I'm not sure what it is. I'm from Intellivision land and I don't know much at all about Atari.

Yeah that's probably the easiest thing to try first. I suppose it's a long shot, but I'll try just for curiosity's sake. As soon as my Aquarius arrives next week, that is.

That's awesome! Nice find

It wouldn't be too hard to try, I think. Probably just need a splitter so that one could run a cable to both computers from the shared tape deck.

Might it be possible, in theory, to use an Aquarius tape deck to feed code to both an ECS and an Aquarius computer complete with Mini Expander and RAM simultaneously?

Looking for something in like-new condition, working, and with all of its original included parts. Preferably with box and and included materials. Memory expansion carts and software also of interest!

I suspect I'm not the only person like this, but to me, there is just something nostalgic and appealing about playing a game that - in theory - could have been made in 1983 by some dedicated, passionate person and shared among his/her nerdy friends on cassette tapes.

You mention you had the brown UK one as if it was unusual - which it would be if you lived in the US, I suppose. At any rate, I love your story, and I can relate to it if not directly. Here's my philosophy on development - and not just software dev; ALL development - do what you can with what you have. The true measure of your accomplishment is married to the conditions under which it was executed. Here's another way to look at it - If we judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it is useless.

Oh hell yeah. That looks way more useful than this god-awful sears tele-games "organizer" thing. The way they want you to insert your game carts is the worst. They're always falling over and the whole thing quickly becomes a plastic box where all of your games are haphazardly piled up for you to sort through until you find the one you wanted. If you even still want to play it by the time you find it.

Regarding that potential TutorVision, does that system do anything differently/better with it's advanced circuitry? Or is it just desirable for it's rarity? If I recall... isn't it possible to have the advanced components but lack the modified EXEC, essentially making it just a heavier Intellivision?