intvdave Posted February 18, 2019 Author Share Posted February 18, 2019 Seriously, if there were more stage colors alone, I'd fire up even an otherwise vanilla version of the game on my LTO and do my best to reach them. I have 13 colors set to show as background depending on the score achieved. The colors that do not work are white, drk green, and yellow. I currently have the colors switching every 1,000 points but that would not be a challenge enough. When should I have the background colors change? Every 5,000? It could also be something like: 1,000 5,000 10,000 25,000 50,000 100,000 ect.... Once we figure this out, I will update the game and post it. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Black_Tiger Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 I have 13 colors set to show as background depending on the score achieved. The colors that do not work are white, drk green, and yellow. I currently have the colors switching every 1,000 points but that would not be a challenge enough. When should I have the background colors change? Every 5,000? It could also be something like: 1,000 5,000 10,000 25,000 50,000 100,000 ect.... Once we figure this out, I will update the game and post it. Thanks a lot, looking forward to it. My Dad is coming to town this coming weekend to visit for the first time in a few years. If it's ready in time I'm going to show it to him and see if I can get him to play some Intellivision with me. Growing up he was the reigning champ in our house for Astrosmash and Lock 'n Chase. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvdave Posted February 18, 2019 Author Share Posted February 18, 2019 Thanks a lot, looking forward to it. My Dad is coming to town this coming weekend to visit for the first time in a few years. If it's ready in time I'm going to show it to him and see if I can get him to play some Intellivision with me. Growing up he was the reigning champ in our house for Astrosmash and Lock 'n Chase. At what scores/points do you want the background colors to take effect? I am thinking every 5,000. To see all the colors you have to get to 60,000 (do not check my math). If we do every 10,000 points, you have to get to 120,000 points to see them all. I am thinking 10k is where it should be. Do most players get over 100k socre? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy62 Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 10k sounds perfect to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lathe26 Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Maybe change color when the score goes negative (for really bad players). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiLic0ne t0aD Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 1,000 is definitely too easy, but maybe a color change every 2,500 or 5,000 points would be cool. I think 10,000 is a bit much, imho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvdave Posted February 19, 2019 Author Share Posted February 19, 2019 With color change every 5k. There are 13 different colors. astrosmash.rom 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TandyVision Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 How are you guys playing this? Can you play it on pc still? it's been years since I tried Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+fdr4prez Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 (edited) How are you guys playing this? Can you play it on pc still? it's been years since I tried There are a few options: PC using an emulator (jzintv is the go-to emulator) and you can get USB adapters for using Intellivision controllers RetroPie on a Raspberry Pi (jzintv is the go-to emulator) - also using USB adapters for using real Intellivision controllers LTO Flash! cart and you can play on real hardware The jzintv emulator can be mapped out to support gamepads, and such, but why not use real Inty controllers? EDIT: if you want to play the game without controllers, you can still use a PC and the jzintv emulator. The keyboard is supported, too, and since it is only Astrosmash it should be easy enough to play on a keyboard. Edited February 19, 2019 by fdr4prez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TandyVision Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Yeah I tried and there were missing files that were top secret and hard to find. Grom or bin I think, I finally gave up. If someone can PM me the PC moron's version of instruction that would be great. I can't currently play on anything but PC and want to play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 (edited) The two files represent the intellevision executive rom and graphics rom chips that's inside an intellivision. If you have an intellivision rom set, easily found on the internet, those two files will be in there. They might might be named "Executive ROM, The (1978) (Mattel).int" and "GROM, The (1978) (General Instruments) [!].int". If they are in a zip or .7z archive (e.g. "BIOS ROM (1978).zip"), extract the files. If using jzintv, rename the two files to "exec.bin" and "grom.bin" and put them in the jzintv\rom folder. Edited February 20, 2019 by mr_me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoJoe Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Yeah I tried and there were missing files that were top secret and hard to find. Grom or bin I think, I finally gave up. If someone can PM me the PC moron's version of instruction that would be great. I can't currently play on anything but PC and want to play. Check your PM's ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TandyVision Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 I give up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoJoe Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 I give up what's the problem now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TandyVision Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 I get cannot write start.bat X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 (edited) You must be using Arnauld's gui/frontend. According to this, it doesn't support long folder names. http://www.intellivision.us/intvgames/jzintv/jzintv.php Make sure the folders in the jzintv.exe path don't have spaces and are eight characters or less. That gui is an old program, and not needed to use jzintv. Edited February 23, 2019 by mr_me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Tallarico Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 Will til you see the NEXT one! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swami Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 I get cannot write start.bat X http://atariage.com/forums/topic/267940-jztinv-cant-write-startbat/ Also, maybe this, since you are using the GUI: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/274349-tutorvision-games-on-real-hardware/?p=4218916 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TandyVision Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Thanks for the info. I can't get it to work so calling it quits on this. Sorry for the thread hijack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Thanks for the info. I can't get it to work so calling it quits on this. Sorry for the thread hijack.So, the folder names didn't make a difference? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacrec Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 I like to run games on Nostalgia because it's full screen, but I get this error in the log: LoadROM(): Invalid Intellicart ROM file format: C:\Nostalgia\roms\astrosmash.romExpected 0xA8, got 0x41 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoJoe Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 I like to run games on Nostalgia because it's full screen, but I get this error in the log: LoadROM(): Invalid Intellicart ROM file format: C:\Nostalgia\roms\astrosmash.rom Expected 0xA8, got 0x41 You can run jzintv in fullscreen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intvnut Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 You must be using Arnauld's gui/frontend. According to this, it doesn't support long folder names. http://www.intellivision.us/intvgames/jzintv/jzintv.php Make sure the folders in the jzintv.exe path don't have spaces and are eight characters or less. That gui is an old program, and not needed to use jzintv. The LTO Flash GUI also doubles as a launcher for jzIntv. You don't even need an LTO Flash. The GUI is free. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacrec Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 I ran it on jz, but full screen didn't work, gave me an error. A couple of thoughts: I don't like the red background at 10K, that's too weird. I think red should only be for the explosion. One problem with different colored backgrounds: invisible rocks! I was exploding left and right over 15K because the tan rocks blended into the background. If you're going to color the background, there shouldn't be any rocks of the same color. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoJoe Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 The LTO Flash GUI also doubles as a launcher for jzIntv. You don't even need an LTO Flash. The GUI is free. Any chance of having the jzintv menu on the toolbar in a future release? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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