doctorclu Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 (edited) I tried to do an extensive search on here for anything regarding ECS and didn't see that. Thanks for the link. Cool, save me a little time and please let me know the link where the motherboard has been mapped out (or being mapped out) on the ECS. Thanks in advance for that one. Edited January 10, 2014 by doctorclu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I tried to do an extensive search on here for anything regarding ECS and didn't see that. Thanks for the link. Cool, save me a little time and please let me know the link where the motherboard has been mapped out (or being mapped out) on the ECS. Thanks in advance for that one. I haven't found yet the hardware schematics, though I was sure I've seen them before. Anyway, I just realized that the article from the forum was also added to the IntelliWiki. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lathe26 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Let me know if the ECS hardware schematics exist. I've looked around a lot and have not found any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnPCAE Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 The June 1983 edition of Video Games has a three-page article on the ECS. The pic at the start of the article shows an early keyboard, a Program Expander, and a Basic Programming cartridge. Some or all might be mockups, though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari5200dude82 Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 Looks very cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NumbThumb Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Nice that there is an Intv ECS Club. I hope to be able to join the Club in the future… Just for fun, attaching a logo and a suggestion for a Club T-Shirt. Intellivision ECS Commercial Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aTyvdOLBdA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzz73 Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 I have an ECS and have had it since 1985 or 1986. I messed around with some of the BASIC stuff that was in the manual, but never really got into it. I'm wishing now that I had! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari5200dude82 Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 Nice that there is an Intv ECS Club. I hope to be able to join the Club in the future… Just for fun, attaching a logo and a suggestion for a Club T-Shirt. Intellivision ECS Commercial Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aTyvdOLBdA Wow, very awesome t shirts. I like them, and very Retro and cool. Welcome to the club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkcharmer Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Pops just recently completed our NOS ECS games collection, and one of my favorite items is our 6-pack of Mind Strikes: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-crew Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Been reading through this tread.. Try to find out info on the ecs and if there is anywhere to purchase any ecs games at a reasonably priced.. I do own mind strike,bits and bites. I know there are the few games that will be fairly expensive like WSbaseball, jetson's but any info would be great.. Oh what is this ECS club you all talk about.. lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freewheel Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Been reading through this tread.. Try to find out info on the ecs and if there is anywhere to purchase any ecs games at a reasonably priced.. After reading through this thread, I now know why I cannot find the rarer ECS games, nor really any rare games in boxes. I can't believe the number of duplicates of rare games people on this forum have. Hoarders! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Been reading through this tread.. Try to find out info on the ecs and if there is anywhere to purchase any ecs games at a reasonably priced.. I do own mind strike,bits and bites. I know there are the few games that will be fairly expensive like WSbaseball, jetson's but any info would be great.. Oh what is this ECS club you all talk about.. lol If you're looking for complete boxed games your best bet is eBay or possibly a trade. Prices vary, but none are typically less than $10. Sealed obviously fetches a premium. Here are some CIB, but unsealed prices you can expect to pay: $10-25 Mr Basic $10-25 Mindstrike $15-40 Scooby Doo $60-?? World Series MLB $90-?? Jetsons $100+ Melody Blaster Finding any of those CIB for the lower end of those ranges (or cheaper) wouldn't be bad. If you don't care as much about box quality, you can probably find some rougher boxed versions even cheaper. Some of the Intellivision Inc versions are much rarer and can run higher than the Mattel counterparts (Mr Basic & Baseball). Others have rarer gatefold versions that can fetch a bit more. Hope this helps. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari5200dude82 Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 (edited) Oh what is this ECS club you all talk about.. lol It just a friendly club/ spin off , from the Intellivision Brotherhood, that are fans of The Ecs/music syntheizer. That likes to talk or share or even curious about the Ecs system and games. Also just to point out . one of the Last Ecs game supposed to be in the works to be released early next year. Game Factory. Alex pace already has the boxes and manals on sale on Ebay, if he has any left. The cartridges and maybe overlays will be and upgrade from the box /manual to be release sometime early next year. Save your pennies. Number Jumble is the last one For the Ecs. that may be released sometime in the near future. Let's hope. Edited December 21, 2014 by atari5200dude82 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-crew Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 yeah, share the wealth....lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-crew Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 thanks , sure does.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Relevant eBay Auction -- Item Number: 231422347785 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpmaul69 Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 I had listed a jetsons cart only on ebay for $30. Then listed for $20. Still didnt sell. I moved and had to get rid of about 80% of everything i owned so i ended up donating it to goodwill. Unfortunately my ecs got donated and now i need an ecs keyboard to mod for my ultimate intellivision flashback and there aint crap on ebay now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thucom Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 (edited) I managed to get a darker model ECS when I was little from a thrift store in the 90's without a power supply. We never did find a power supply for it, but now that I am older and the internet is useful I noticed that the power adapter is remarkably similar to an Odyssey 2 power supply.... and it works, I won't leave the plug in but I can now use the thing that I wished I could use as a kid. Edited December 25, 2014 by thucom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 DZ-Jay and other have covered things pretty well. DZ-Jay said it best in that sharing the source code is the simplest way. However, be careful of typos, though the ECS provides highlighting to help with that. The next best option is to use a laptop to record and playback WAV files. While not as "authentic" as recording onto actual tapes, WAV files can be stored longer and more easily shared. It also looks like there is a WAV2BIN program available that converts WAV files to/from the actual binary format that the ECS saves/loads its BASIC in. Here are some links (these are very technical discussions): http://games.dir.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/intvprog/conversations/topics/3960 http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/intvprog/conversations/topics/3958 Furthermore, it looks like there was some work on being able to convert a WAV file to/from the original source code on your laptop. I don't know if this work was completed (haven't investigated too far). http://games.dir.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/intvprog/conversations/messages/4667 Note that the WAV2BIN program there works well with clean recordings. I actually did some work for another collector, decoding some tapes from the 80s, and they required a more complex decoder, as they had all sorts of weird problems (dropouts, other noise, etc.). I eventually got something good off of most of the tapes. The serial format is funky. 8 data bits, parity bit and two stop bits. (I forget which parity off the top of my head.) The audio is simple FSK at 2400Hz and 4800Hz for 0 and 1, as I recall, and 300 baud. The fact they're integer multiples of each other made decoding a special headache on those older tapes. It's also quite feasible to drive the ECS's tape in/out with a PC. I've done precisely that. It's very tricky, however, to get the volume level right when sending data to the ECS. It gives you absolutely crap for feedback. Somewhere on my HD I have a "bin2wav" program that might be interesting for hacking purposes. It's not that complex of a thing to write, though, given the audio specs listed above. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkcharmer Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 So here's our collection of ECS games - original release games anyhow. As usual, pops did the heavy lifting, picking up the Jetsons and WSML Baseball (sealed and CIB). He must have picked up Mind Strike too - I can't find it in my purchase history. I did, however, get both of our copies of Melody Blaster. And despite sacrificing symmetry, I love that our sealed Melody Blaster is book-style (even though sealed standard boxes of this title seem to be more rare. . .). And I got our new Mr. Basic and Scooby from. . . you guessed it - wabac626 in Fullerton. Seriously - that dude is sitting on the comstock lode of MrB's and SD Maze. Rare, they are not, but for me - I love having these games new, and both of the titles that Wabac626 shipped me were 10/10 quality-wise. Our open copy of SD Maze is gatefold - which is cool, and dad picked up an open non-mattel Mr. Basic, which I think is semi rare? More pricing data for M-crew: 1) 11/01/13 - CIB Mattel Melody Blaster, standard box - approx 5/10 condition, paid $47.51, plus $3.43. shipping. Good price, not a great copy. 2) 03/23/13 - Sealed Mr. Basic (Mattel), standard box, 10/10, paid $20.96, plus $2.08 tax, plus $5.85 shipping. Clearly must have been an auction. 3) 02/28/14 - Unopened Carton of 6ea sealed Mr. Basic, standard intellivision boxes, paid $36.99, plus $33.00 shipping. Bought from Venezuela (price per copy was $11.67!). 4) 02/17/14 - Sealed Melody Blaster, book-style box - approx 8/10 condition, paid $119.02, plus $19.44 shipping. Negotiated "Best Offer" from Italy. 5) 01/20/14 - Sealed SD Maze Chase, standard box - 10/10, paid $36.88, $3.35 sales tax, and $6.35 shipping. 6) 12/10/13 - My CIB SD Maze Chase, book-style box (7-10), is incalculable; I bought it with a Super Cobra that was missing instructions, and sealed french versions of Math Fun and Horse Racing for $120.27, plus $51.15 shipping from France (ouch!). That's all I could find - dad must of bought the rest. . . Which BTW pops - I'm coming over in about an hour! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BBWW Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 I had listed a jetsons cart only on ebay for $30. Then listed for $20. Still didnt sell. I moved and had to get rid of about 80% of everything i owned so i ended up donating it to goodwill. Unfortunately my ecs got donated and now i need an ecs keyboard to mod for my ultimate intellivision flashback and there aint crap on ebay now Lets talk, I help you out…you help me out while I try to build my Ultimate Flashback, shoot me a PM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari5200dude82 Posted February 5, 2016 Author Share Posted February 5, 2016 Since all unreleased Mattel ecs games are done and out . Thanks to Rev and company that were involved . Game factory and number jumble are finally on cart and cib .what's ur fav ecs game now . Or what's ur favorite from the last 4 released ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zendocon Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 On 8/9/2013 at 11:19 PM, LidLikesIntellivision said: Today I joined the ECS club! Thank you very much, Fushek. Now I need to find some cartridge games... Well, I think it's impossible to run these withtout the tape recorder: http://spatula-city.org/~intvlib/inty/ecsbasic.html I know it would be tedious to write the code everytime. And, yes, Space Patrol gets even better with the ECS. Thankfully, newer versions of jzIntv support virtual ECS tapes. Starting with this post, I created virtual tapes for my Number Cruncher and Bomb Run games. While entering the code from that old site of mine, I see I had made a few mistakes when I typed it up more than 20 years ago. On 7/7/2013 at 11:26 PM, Tales from the Game Room said: I am glad to see unfinished games being completed for this add-on. I would love to see what homebrewers could do with bringing out more original games that required the ECS, the Intellivoice, or both used together... I finally had FUBAR released in 2019, which supports but does not require ECS for 4 players and extra music channels, but by now, you probably already know that. Dave Harley added IntelliVoice support to the prototype, but I didn't bother with it in the final release. On 2/4/2016 at 10:08 PM, atari5200dude82 said: Since all unreleased Mattel ecs games are done and out . Thanks to Rev and company that were involved . Game factory and number jumble are finally on cart and cib .what's ur fav ecs game now . Or what's ur favorite from the last 4 released ? I still enjoy watching a 2-CPU demo of World Series Major League Baseball just to see/hear the best of what Mattel Electronics had to offer in 1983. If only the ECS continued to be supported and Game Factory had been released, and my family had bought the ECS and Game Factory for Christmas that year! Now that I have all the ECS games, including the unreleased ones, it's hard to pick a favorite. I did reverse-engineer Melody Blaster to change all the music, which was kind of fun. Playing the Vampire Bats game in Mr. BASIC Meets Bits & Bytes with my homing bombs program is fun for a short while. Mind Strike is pretty cool with 2 players, but back in the day I learned you can beat either of the CPUs by playing aggressively; they have a weak defensive strategy. I also dislike the "AI thinking" sounds; same goes for Reversi. For actual "fun factor" among the original 6, I'd have to go with The Jetsons' Ways With Words. Among the unreleased ones, I haven't really touched Game Factory and probably won't since I can just write actual games myself now - I've gotten the most enjoyment from The Flintstones' Keyboard Fun (Game 5). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intelligentleman Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 (edited) I'd love to "play" Game Factory. https://kotaku.com/nintendo-just-very-quietly-announced-a-brand-new-game-1846833024 Edited May 5, 2021 by Intelligentleman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zendocon Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 13 hours ago, Intelligentleman said: I'd love to "play" Game Factory. https://kotaku.com/nintendo-just-very-quietly-announced-a-brand-new-game-1846833024 That Game Builder Garage looks nice, but after my experience with WarioWare: D.I.Y., I think I'll wait to see how well Nintendo supports it. I loved WarioWare: D.I.Y. back in the day, but you could only post two games at a time, and you had to exchange Friend Codes to disseminate your games. Then Nintendo ran monthly design contests. and after 12 months, stopped all the online support. This was all before Nintendo released the Wii U, and almost immediately took down the WiiConnect24 server to punish their fan base for lackluster sales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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