Intelligentleman

Thanks. That's what I'm seeing too. Is there a mathematical notation for "does not equal?" I don't see it on the ECS keyboard, but wondering if there's another way to express it.

Does IF/THEN/ELSE work in ECS BASIC?

Are these straight-up ECS programs?

One more question... I noticed last night while I was messing around with the ECS, that the system stopped taking anymore inputs from my keyboard. Is that because I used up all the memory? I wasn't even doing anything... It was something like: 10 INPU "What is your name"; NAM$ 20 IF NAM$ = Intelligentleman THEN PRIN "Nice to meet you, Intelligentleman." ELSE PRIN "Stranger Danger!"

Thanks for that context. At this point, I don't have any ambitions to build anything that would be of interest to anyone other than myself. ECS BASIC will give me plenty to play with. Something else I'm interested in doing is composing music using ECS BASIC and then manipulating it - somehow - with the ECS.

Thank you. Didn't realize the commands were in there! I want to try it just like someone would have back in the day. Plus, it sounds like there's a setup factor with Inty Basic. Is it essentially a better version of ECS BASIC?

Could someone be so kind as to point me in the direction of a list of BASIC commands for the ECS. I haven't done any BASIC programming since 1997 in high school, and I know the ECS BASIC commands are a little different. I tried googling and surprisingly did not find anything resembling a simple list of commands. I also looked through the sticky resource thread at the top of this board, and wasn't able to find a list of commands there either. Thank you in advance!

Love the wood grain on the Tandy Vision!

Fantastic. I really want a keyboard to mess around with programming music in BASIC and stuff like that. Rad setup. Edit: also, we had that came yellow coin muncher robot when I was a kid.

I played some Atari games for the first time a few weeks ago, and with some of them, i was really surprised/impressed with the use of color. Later games like Atlantis with the rainbow ships.

Really like the sound of the music.

I'd like to understand the main differences between the two machines and the pros/cons of both color palette. I always see that Atari boasted a huge number of total color possibilities while Intellivision, despite generally superior visuals, seems limited to a relative handful. Why would Mattel impose those limitations and what practical impact did it have on the way games looked on the Intellivision?

Whaaaaat. That's amazing! Thanks.

How are you able to use a laptop and/or phone to save your programs?

I really want an extra set. And I also want that Aquarius tape recorder.

Ha ha ha, it's next on my list 😈

That's rad! Love controller extensions!

My first "program"

Aestheticly, I love the Inty II. As well as all the matching add ons. Always bothered me they released the intellivoice to match the original 2609 when everything else was done in white. Save for the Play Cable which also matches the original styling. Is it just me, or did Nintendo borrow heavily from the aesthetic of the INTV II for the US Nintendo Entertainment System? As far as the controllers... I prefer the original style with the key pad bubbles and spongy side buttons. However, I don't hate the INTV II controllers by any stretch.

Gotta get a bigger table for down here.

😐

Vectron with an INTV controller isn't much better! 😂

Wouldn't it be rad if someone home-brewed a game that came on, like, 8 carts... and you'd load them into the multiplexer and when you reached the end of one cart, it would prompt you to switch to another?

... The hell?

You said it. There's something a little different about the graphics, and I'm not just talking about the surface-level differences. And the colors - I've seen some interesting gradients that I don't typically see in Intellivision games. To be fair, the only Atari games I have are from Imagic, which is probably my favorite INTV developer. They often go the extra mile to make sweet games. This one game I have for Atari, Star Voyager, has a function where you toggle your weapon type by physically moving one of the switches on the System Changer! That blew me away when I discovered it the other day.